Native American Thanksgiving Turkey Wagon Victorian Card

Gripping a long whip-like implement with determined focus, a Native American woman in a feathered headdress sits atop a red four-wheeled cart overflowing with autumnal produce, commanding a single enormous turkey forward — because apparently horses were busy that Thanksgiving. The turkey, tail fanned in full display and neck craned forward with what can only be described as reluctant compliance, is doing the Lord's work pulling this harvest wagon while she rides in queenly produce-adjacent splendor. The scroll in the upper left cheerfully declares 'All Thanksgiving Bounty Be Thine,' which feels like a lot of aspirational energy for a greeting card that is, at its core, about animal labor exploitation dressed up in glitter and patriotic color. Copyrighted by John Winsch, 1911 — a man who clearly looked at a turkey and thought, yes, draft animal, and nobody stopped him.