Thanksgiving Day Greetings

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Title	Thanksgiving Day Greetings
Holiday	Thanksgiving
Creator	Unknown
Date.Original	1931?
Description	Printed greeting card with cream colored background with a message that reads "Thanksgiving Day Greetings; May your heart be filled with thanksgiving on this day." A decorative vase can be seen along the left hand side with flowers of purple, orange, blue and red with leaves of yellow and orange coming out of the top. There are side borders in a green color grape design.
Notes	From a collection of cards preserved by Miss Leona Hitchcock (1919-2009), below is a letter written by "Aunt" Leona that was preserved with the greeting card collection. During the Great Depression, we lived in Pontiac, Michigan, and work was very scarce for everyone, especially carpenters. Emma Hitchcock's sister and brother-in-law, Lizzie and Ebbie Teskey, lived in Kalamazoo where work was more plentiful and persuaded Fred Hitchcock to come to their city. This he did and he obtained work as a carpenter and most of the time he lived at the Teskey home, traveling back to Pontiac on weekends. He was working on a house on Oakland Drived in Kalamazoo one day when the scaffolding collapsed and two men were thrown to the ground. My father was one, and he suffered a broken back. The other man was not seriously injured. My father was taken to Bronson Hospital where he was put into a plaster cast and forced to lie on this back for almost three months. The letters he wrote to his family during this time tell of his life in the hospital. My mother went to visit him several times. He was released from the hospital about December 1, 1931, but had to remain in Kalamazoo for several weeks until a special brace was made for him to wear. My mother spent those several weeks with him and they rented a room at 214 Woodward Avenue. One box of letters contains the Christmas cards the family received that year.
Subject.LCSH	Holidays
Subject.TGM	Greeting cards Cards Ephemera Turkeys
Subject.AAT	greeting cards
Subject.Local	Hitchcock family Kelley family
HRVH Topic	Arts & Entertainment Daily Life
Language	eng
Format.Original	ink, on paper; 5.023 x 3.067 in. (12.76 x 7.79 cm.)
Resource Type	Image
Source	Hitchock, Leona, 1919-2009
Donor	Personal Collection of Hitchock-Kelley Family
Resource Identifier	hhs_gc_21.tif
Publisher.Digital	Historic Huguenot Street
Date.Digital	2011-11-23
Format.Digital	image/jpeg
Exhibit Homepage	http://www.hrvh.org/exhibit/hhsastheseason/
Digital.Collection	As the Seasons Turn
Holding.Institution	Personal Collection of Hitchock-Kelley Family
Contact.Information	Library 88 Huguenot Street New Paltz, NY 12561 845-255-1660 http://www.huguenotstreet.org
Rights	This digital image may be used for educational or scholarly purposes without restriction. Commercial uses of the item may be subject to fees and restrictions. Please contact the holding institution for information.
Technical.Data	Archival TIFF - MicroTEK 9800XL; Adobe Photoshop Elements 2.0; 24 bit color; 600 ppi; RGB; 16,651,332 bytes: 3014x1840 pixels; no compression
Transcript	Thanksgiving Day Greetings May your heart be filled with thanksgiving on this day.
Metadata Creator	Hurlburt, Ashley

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