Halloween -- Ancient And Modern – Antique Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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This historic drawing of Halloween -- Ancient And Modern brings a moment of history to your wall. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Halloween -- Ancient And Modern
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Berryman's cartoon sets the holiday's older customs against its newer habits, as the title "Halloween -- Ancient and Modern" suggests. The drawing was made for the *Washington Star*, where Clifford Kennedy Berryman worked as a staff cartoonist for decades and was known for commenting on the capital's politics and daily life. By the early 1900s, Halloween in American cities was shifting from folk rites tied to harvest and the supernatural toward costumed parties and street mischief, and cartoons like this one often used that change to poke fun at contemporary manners. Its value lies in showing how newspapers of the period looked at ordinary holidays as well as public affairs.
| Created / published | c. 1909-1910 |
|---|---|
| Medium | drawing |
| Notes | Berryman (C.K.), no. 1131. Probably published in: Washington star |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,480 × 2,964 px · prints to 12 × 10 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-206118 |
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