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Thanksgiving Nightmare

Thanksgiving Nightmare
"May your Thanksgiving never end in dreams like these!"

Postcard postmarked Milwaukee, Wis., Nov. 22, 1910.

The foods of Thanksgiving haunt a boy's sleep in this nightmarish scene by illustrator H. B. Griggs (HBG).

For two other Thanksgiving postcards by Griggs, see 'Rah, 'Rah, 'Rah, Thanksgiving!!! and Were It Not for Friday's Pain (below).

'Rah, 'Rah, 'Rah, Thanksgiving!!! Were It Not for Friday's Pain

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Comments
 wintorbos
wintorbos club
Classics of the genre, to be sure... no turkeys among them.
7 years ago.
Alan Mays club has replied to wintorbos club
Ha ha, thanks for the comment...and the good laugh!
7 years ago.

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