Halloween postcard with anthropomorphic cabbages and verse – Vintage Print
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Step back in time with Halloween postcard with anthropomorphic cabbages and verse, a vintage postcard rich in period detail. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.
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Halloween postcard with anthropomorphic cabbages and verse
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Cabbages with faces are the unusual feature here, since most Halloween postcards of this era show witches, black cats, pumpkins or jack-o'-lanterns. Early twentieth-century American and European holiday cards often personified vegetables and fruit in comic scenes, and the verse printed alongside the figures gave the card its joke. Postcards like this were mailed between friends and family in the weeks before October 31, when the holiday was still largely a home and neighborhood celebration with parties, games and fortune-telling. Look at the lettering and color printing, which show how lithographic methods of the period were used to make cheap, colorful cards for a mass market.
| Original scan | 1,021 × 1,601 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | hallcard32_1 |
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