Halloween and the Minnesota snowball – Antique Print
![Halloween and the Minnesota snowball, [between 1898 and 1915] — historic drawing](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/58/58269a98fd88-L.webp)
(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.)
Description
This rare historic drawing captures Halloween and the Minnesota snowball in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Halloween and the Minnesota snowball
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A snowball hurled at a jack-o'-lantern is the joke here, a pairing that only makes sense in a cold-weather state where an early October storm can arrive before the holiday. The drawing is signed "Bart" and was probably published in *The Minneapolis Journal*, where it likely ran as one of a series of small cartoons accompanying the daily weather forecast. Between the late 1890s and 1915, newspapers across the country used such pictures to mix forecasts with local humor, and Halloween was a favorite subject because its pranks and carved pumpkins made easy comic material.
| Created / published | [between 1898 and 1915] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 drawing : India ink over pencil on bristol board ; 36.2 x 34.8 cm. (sheet) |
| Genre | Cartoons (Commentary) American 1890-1920.Drawings American 1890-1920.Editorial cartoons American 1890-1920.Periodical illustrations American 1890-1920. |
| Notes | No copyright information found with item. Signed, lower right: Bart. Bequest and gift; Caroline and Erwin Swann; 1974; (DLC/PP-1974:232.24) The cartoon is probably one of many that the artist drew to illustrate the daily weather forecast. Forms part of: Caroline and Erwin Swann collection of caricature and cartoon (Library of Congress). Probably published in: The Minneapolis Journal. |
| Subjects | Halloween--1890-1920. Jack-o-lanterns--1890-1920. Snowballs--1890-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,536 px · prints to 5 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-157286 |
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