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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A window into the past: Halloween -- Ancient And Modern, preserved in this historic drawing. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Halloween -- Ancient And Modern
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Filed under the name hallcard4, this item is catalogued as one of the Halloween cards in the collection, and the number suggests it may belong to a numbered set. Halloween greeting cards were especially popular in the United States and Britain in the early 1900s, when printers produced large runs of embossed and die-cut cards showing witches, black cats, jack-o'-lanterns and harvest scenes. People sent them to friends and family as greetings or party invitations, and surviving examples now show how the holiday was celebrated before mass-produced costumes and candy became central to it.
| 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 | 1,645 × 1,067 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | hallcard4_1 |
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