Victorian Wild Turkey Greeting Card with Poults in Garden

A fully fanned tom turkey looming over a hen and her poults as they squabble over what appears to be a slice of fruit on the ground suggest a power move so on-the-nose it borders on performance art. The tom's tail is spread in maximum peacocking display while the hen, completely unbothered, keeps her beak down and her priorities straight, because honestly same. A wooden picket fence in the background helpfully reminds us this domestic idyll is just a yard away from becoming someone's holiday centerpiece. The Victorian illustrator rendered the birds' red wattles and bare heads with such loving anatomical precision that this greeting card functions simultaneously as festive charm and mild biological horror—because apparently the best way to wish someone Happy Thanksgiving is through slightly unsettling poultry anatomy.