Greetings for Halloween: witch and black cat in car – Historic Print
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
Description
Few images capture their era like this historic image of Greetings for Halloween: witch and black cat in car. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
The framed print arrives ready to hang; the unframed option suits custom framing. It brings character to any room and makes a memorable gift. Free shipping in the lower 48 states. Snapshots of the Past has been bringing history to the wall since 2001, for tens of thousands of customers worldwide.
Greetings for Halloween: witch and black cat in car
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A witch and a black cat share the front seat of a small automobile in this card-style scene, a detail that puts a seasonal motif into the modern world of the early motorcar. Halloween postcards like this one were produced in large numbers in the early twentieth century, when the holiday was becoming a popular occasion for printed greetings. Artists typically combined bright color, exaggerated costumes and playful props such as cats, pumpkins and moons to make the cards cheerful rather than frightening. The car here shows how illustrators used everyday technology as a comic setting for the old folk imagery of witches.
| Original scan | 1,730 × 1,082 px · prints to 6 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | 1436304324_e781c7b4ab_o |
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