Vintage 1917 Thanksgiving Greeting Card with Boy and Turkey

'Best Wishes to a Bounteous Thanksgiving,' the card cheerfully declares—as if wishing the turkey luck while a gun-toting child watches from an inset panel above is perfectly normal holiday correspondence. Dated 1917, this fever dream of a postcard features a massive wild turkey rendered in gloriously obsessive detail, while a smug rosy-cheeked child in a green pilgrim hat lurks separately, radiating the energy of someone who has already decided how this ends. The compositional choice to give the turkey its own glamour shot while the tiny, well-dressed assassin poses for his portrait in the background is either inspired or deeply sinister, and 107 years later we're still not sure which.