Victorian Thanksgiving Greeting Card: Pilgrim Child with Harvest Basket

A small child with a serene, dead-eyed expression wears a comically oversized buckled black hat, brown cape, white collar, and knee-high black boots while hauling a wicker basket nearly as large as his entire torso, stuffed with corn, grapes, apples, and assorted harvest chaos. His calm demeanor is the look of someone who has seen things, possibly unspeakable colonial things. The real crime is the text pairing 'Best Wishes for Thanksgiving' with 'For Auld Lang Syne'—a combination so culturally incoherent it suggests the card's creator simply googled 'fancy old-timey phrases' and went with whatever loaded first. Signed by Ellen H. Clapsaddle, which is either a very real illustrator or the name you give a witch in a children's novel.