Vintage Thanksgiving Greeting Card with Giant Pumpkin & Child

This curly-haired child, dressed in a blue dress, white apron, and a bonnet that appears to be losing a battle with gravity, seems to have just made a deeply questionable life decision—a conclusion supported by the one finger dramatically pressed to her lips. To her right looms a pumpkin that is, conservatively, roughly the same width as she is tall, glowing with an almost supernatural orange luminescence that suggests either excellent lithography or a radioactive origin story. The scattered hay in the background appears designed to convince viewers that yes, this is a normal agricultural situation, and no, we will not be addressing the pumpkin's inexplicable enormity. The International Art Publishing Co. copyrighted this fever dream in 1909, which tracks.