Halloween postcard with child, ghost and jack-o'-lantern – Vintage Wall Art
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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A window into the past: Halloween postcard with child, ghost and jack-o'-lantern, preserved in this vintage postcard. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
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Halloween postcard with child, ghost and jack-o'-lantern
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A child in a costume stands beside a ghost and a glowing jack-o'-lantern, the kind of scene that made early twentieth-century Halloween postcards so popular. Cards like this were often mailed in the weeks before October 31, when the holiday was still becoming a national custom in the United States and printers were turning out bright, stylized designs in large numbers. The jack-o'-lantern is worth a closer look: carved pumpkins were an older tradition than the orange-and-black candy-and-costume holiday we know today, and many of these cards helped standardize the imagery that still appears on porches each fall.
| Original scan | 1,022 × 1,619 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | hallcard39 1900s |
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