Vintage Victorian Thanksgiving Card with Child and Giant Pumpkin

The pumpkin — rendered in an aggressive, almost radioactive shade of red-orange with a single dark stem hole that reads unmistakably as an eye — looms beside a small blonde girl in a blue dress and white apron with the quiet menace of a sentient gourd who has been waiting. She sits on the ground, hand raised pensively to her mouth, contemplating what appears to be a pumpkin roughly the same size as her entire torso. Her expression isn't joy, it isn't hunger; it's the thousand-yard stare of someone who has made peace with being outsized by a squash. The card wishes you a 'Kappy' Thanksgiving, indeed — because when you think holiday cheer, you naturally think scenes of botanical dominance. Somewhere in the background, what appears to be harvested grain sits unbothered, completely unaware it is the least disturbing thing in this composition.