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Halloween Precautions witch postcard with owl and jack-o'-lantern – Antique Wall Art

Halloween Precautions witch postcard with owl and jack-o'-lantern — vintage postcard
Halloween Precautions witch postcard with owl and 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.)

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This vintage postcard of Halloween Precautions witch postcard with owl and jack-o'-lantern brings a moment of history to your wall. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.

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Halloween Precautions witch postcard with owl and jack-o'-lantern

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A witch rides across a moon-lit sky beside a perched owl and a grinning jack-o'-lantern, a stock scene that turned up again and again on early twentieth-century holiday postcards. The "Halloween Precautions" wording gives this card its joke: the lighthearted warnings printed on such cards played on fears of pranks and mischief that were common at the time. Halloween was then still largely a holiday for children and young adults, and cards like this were sent as playful greetings. The bold colors and exaggerated figures reflect the printing methods of the era, which made inexpensive, eye-catching postcards widely popular.

Original scan1,597 × 1,020 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi
Referencehallcard8 1900s

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