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A Happy Halloween postcard: child with jack-o'-lantern – Vintage Wall Art

A Happy Halloween postcard: child with jack-o'-lantern — vintage postcard
A Happy Halloween postcard: child with jack-o'-lantern. Vintage postcard from the Halloween collection.

(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

Description

A Happy Halloween postcard: child with jack-o'-lantern comes to life in this vintage postcard, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. 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. Since 2001, Snapshots of the Past has shipped historic prints to tens of thousands of customers around the world.

A Happy Halloween postcard: child with jack-o'-lantern

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A child grins out from behind a grinning jack-o'-lantern in this Halloween postcard, the carved pumpkin doing most of the work of looking spooky. Cards like this were a major part of American holiday culture in the early 1900s, when printers turned out large runs of bright, sentimental images for birthdays, Christmas, and Halloween. Postcards were cheap to mail and easy to collect, so they circulated widely and now offer a window into how families marked the holiday. Look at the colors and the rounded, storybook styling, which reflect the decorative tastes of the period.

Original scan966 × 1,541 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi
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