Collecting Thanks!

The Tradition of Greeting Cards...Click on the Photo!

Thanksgiving is all about food and family for most of us,  but if you're a collector of artifacts appropriate for your school's time period, this might be a good time to check through the ephemera section of your favorite antique shops. Add to your collection of Rewards of Merit and see if you can find Holiday Cards of the past....even for Thanksgiving! We have a number of members who make a point of collecting vintage cards.

Our schoolhouse visitors enjoy seeing things from simpler times, and you can discuss how Thanksgiving has changed and what themes have lasted right up to modern times. They might be surprised that Hallmark didn't invent the tradition of holiday cards. Sending greetings and wishes were common even before paper was invented. I'll save some time and offer you a link to that history at left!

In the meantime, here are few examples from Google photos, some of which include typical greeting card poetry suitable for a schoolhouse recitation lesson. Have some fun creating a new subject for your program.


By the way...if you wish to copy these cards for display, click on each photo and it will enlarge nicely.

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