Today’s harvest comes from my vintage Thanksgiving image collection, which is mostly made up of early 1900s postcards.
This vintage Thanksgiving postcard is from 1911 and its fancy greeting is the perfect candidate for…
… turning into a transparent PNG. Just click on it to open it up, then right-click the loaded image and hit ‘save’ or ‘save as’.
This ‘Thanksgiving Greetings’ postcard wishes you health, wealth, and happiness. Love the turkey illustration. If you can’t make out the message, it says:
Whatever pathways you may see,
May you but travel by these three.
What a beautiful wish for the year ahead!
I love the details in this postcard. An autumn wreath, a plump turkey, and a pair of lovely fall scenes.
I mainly included this card for interest’s sake. Airbrush-like colour on top of raised imagery, the ‘Thanksgiving Greetings’ text is stamped in place. It was a rough little thing, but it’s interesting to see the different styles that you stumble across while gathering vintage ephemera. They aren’t great for use in graphics, unfortunately.
This is only the second such embossed postcard I have ever found. Have you stumbled on any like it?
That’s all for this week, everyone. Enjoy, and see you next week with more images.
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