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Free Vintage Thanksgiving Postcards

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As I went through my collection of vintage postcards to look for Thanksgiving postcards (scroll down to see and download the postcards), I couldn't help but notice how different people in the past must have celebrated the holiday. For our ancestors, setting the Thanksgiving day table might have involved shooting a turkey (gasp!), growing and harvesting pumpkins, corn, wheat and other crops, baking bread and pies, and decorating with items connected to the harvest. They plucked feathers, split open pumpkins, milled wheat and did a number of other tasks most of us wouldn't dream of. You have to wonder where they found the time.

Today, most of us use easy Thanksgiving recipes that take advantage of the availability of frozen turkeys, vegetables and pies, and mass-manufactured bread and stuffing." But does it really matter? In spite of its emphasis on the meal, the essence of Thanksgiving is the togetherness it brings, not the origin of the food. Yes, it would be nice to have everything as pure as we imagine it would have been at early Thanksgiving day celebrations, but as long as we have people to share it with; that's all that matters.


Free Vintage Thanksgiving Cards

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Vintage Thanksgiving postcards: Little girl and pumpkin
Vintage Thanksgiving postcards: Little girl and pumpkin

The free vintageThanksgiving postcards to the right make great greeting cards, or they can be used as place cards at your Thanksgiving day table. To make place cards, just download the postcard you like and paste reduced copies of it into a Word document. (If you know how to make tables in Word, it's easy to set up multiple place cards in one document.) Be sure to leave enough room to write each guest's name underneath or on top of the artwork.

Print the place cards on white, ivory or even colored card stock. A paper cutter works best to cut the place cards apart, but you also can use scissors or an X-acto knife. For a more unusual look, fold the place cards first, then cut the three non-fold edges with pinking shears or other scissors that make decorative edges.

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Instructions for Downloading the Free Vintage Thanksgiving Postcards

Choose a small version of any of the Thanksgiving postcards underneath the large image. When you click on one of the images, it will appear larger. Then, if you have a PC, just right-click and save the larger version of the artwork to your hard drive. If you have a Mac, control-click the image until a pop-up menu appears with the option to save.



Thanksgiving Poll

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Thanksgiving in the News

  • Volunteer work, parades, races mark Thanksgiving DayUSA Today2 hours ago

    Americans celebrate Thanksgiving Day with parades, road races and volunteer efforts.

  • Troops abroad, at home celebrate ThanksgivingCNN2 hours ago

    Turkey, stuffing and pumpkin pie, along with a visit by the commanding general in Iraq and a phone call from President Obama, were some of the ways the White House and Pentagon helped U.S. troops overseas celebrate Thanksgiving.

  • Critic's Corner Holiday: 'Cougar Town,' Thanksgiving programmingUSA Today2 hours ago

    ABC's Cougar Town (tonight, 9:30 ET/PT) celebrates the holiday with what may be its best episode yet as Jules (Courteney Cox) gathers the gang for a Thanksgiving dinner her son Travis (Dan Byrd) is unlikely to forget. Sex plays a part, but what this episode makes crystal-clear is that Cougar is really about a divorced woman's efforts to form a new family out of the ashes of her old one. Tonight ...

  • Truth about playing in Thanksgiving gamesSports Illustrated10 hours ago

    Thanksgiving is here which means it is time for us to stuff our faces full of food while watching football all day long. Pretty much the daily lifestyle of an NFL offensive lineman now that I think about it. Not too shabby, is it?

  • Last-minute injury report: Thanksgiving editionSports Illustrated10 hours ago

    Fantasy football never takes a holiday. Here are your last-minute Thanksgiving Day injury updates.

  • To get a jump on Black Friday, stores open on ThanksgivingUSA Today13 hours ago

    With holiday retail sales projected to be anemic, some familiar chains will open their doors on Thanksgiving Day several for the first time.

  • US soldiers in Afghanistan seeking a slice of home eat Thanksgiving turkeys they raisedChicago Tribune5 hours ago

    BARAKI-BARAK, Afghanistan (AP) — As daylight faded and the winter cold set in, soldiers huddled inside a crude wooden hut to tuck into Thanksgiving turkeys the unit itself had fattened and to give thanks for having survived a year of combat in Afghanistan.

  • For college students far from home, a Thanksgiving connectionBoston Globe3 hours ago

    Globe staff photo by Yoon S. Byun. Hsiang Ting Huang of Taiwan (center) and Shuai Wang of China examine the turkey at a Thanksgiving dinner hosted in the South Boston home of Tim Dwinal (left) and his wife, Sarah...

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Kaye  says:
12 months ago

Hi, Just wanted to thank you for sharing such cute pix. I used two of them at http://hubpages.com/hub/Thanksgiving-vintage-postc .

Thanks again :)Kaye

Kaye  says:
12 months ago

Hi, Just wanted to thank you for sharing such cute pix. I used two of them at my blog with reference to your site. :)

Thanks again

Kaye

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WordPlay  says:
12 months ago

You're welcome, Kaye. And thanks for giving a link back to my page.

I'm glad you enjoyed the images!

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