Vintage Thanksgiving Greeting Card with Children & Turkey

If this were a modern family photo shared on social media, it would immediately get tagged as a safety hazard—but here, two Victorian girls in coordinating pastels (one in head-to-toe pink with a matching bow, one in a teal dress with a belt buckle) have apparently decided that the correct holiday activity is making direct hand contact with a magnificently plumed turkey who is, to his credit, displaying his full fan tail like he absolutely knows he's the main character. The girl in pink has her hand extended toward the turkey's face with the calm confidence of someone who has never once googled 'can turkeys attack children.' Meanwhile, the teal girl lurks behind a large dark rectangular object in the background, watching this unfold like a medieval courtier who already knows how this story ends. The whole scene radiates the energy of a Thanksgiving card designed by someone who genuinely believed children and turkeys were natural friends, and that history has proven spectacularly wrong.