| Adding a bit of nostalgia to your Thanksgiving | | | | postcards were very popular right through the |
| celebration is both easy and completely | | | | 50s and 60s, you may be able to get lucky and |
| appropriate. After all, it is a holiday that is | | | | find photographic postcards of families enjoying |
| celebrating days gone by, namely the puritans | | | | their Thanksgiving dinner. |
| surviving their first real season in America. It is | | | | Another type of Ephemera you can consider |
| also a nice way to commemorate the way that | | | | besides postcards and decorations is advertising. |
| Thanksgiving has been celebrated by our own | | | | Much like today, companies featured the holidays |
| relatives, such as our grandparents and their | | | | in their advertising at this time of year, so by |
| parents too. | | | | flipping through vintage magazines that were |
| For decorating, vintage Thanksgiving ephemera | | | | printed for the month of November it should be |
| shouldn't be too hard too find. These are the | | | | very easy to find some great Thanksgiving |
| various paper items that people save. So look for | | | | themed vintage ads that you can use to decorate |
| things like vintage postcards and greeting cards. | | | | your home. |
| Vintage decorations should also be fairly easy to | | | | Once you find a few nice vintage ads, you can |
| find, as companies such as Beistle have been | | | | either frame them or just tack them up. I like to |
| making Thanksgiving decorations since early in the | | | | look in back issues of magazines such as Life |
| 20th century and many people save items like | | | | because of the larger size. Vintage issues of ladies |
| that. eBay is a great place to look. | | | | magazines such as Good Housekeeping and House |
| For vintage Thanksgiving postcards, look for | | | | Beautiful should also have some great ads that |
| popular Thanksgiving motifs such as turkeys, | | | | you can use. If you decide you want to use them |
| horns of plenty, pumpkins, squash and, of course, | | | | to make your own decorations, simply photocopy |
| pilgrims! But don't just consider traditional printed | | | | the pages if you prefer not to cut up the original |
| postcards. Real photo postcards will likely be much | | | | ads. |
| more difficult to find, but since the real photo | | | | |