Vintage Girls with Turkeys Greeting Card | Edwardian Farm Scene

What's most unsettling is the girl in blue's hand placed firmly on the nearest turkey's back in the universal gesture of 'you're not going anywhere, friend'—two children, one in a straw hat and plaid jacket and one in a polka-dotted bonnet, have cornered two white turkeys against a brick wall in what the card insists is a charming Thanksgiving scene but reads unmistakably as a hostage negotiation. The second turkey stands nearby with its red wattle and open beak suggesting it is, correctly, screaming. The daisies scattered across the grass are doing their absolute best to make this feel whimsical, but no amount of wildflowers can disguise the fact that these children have the dead-eyed focus of seasoned livestock wranglers who know exactly how this holiday ends.