Halloween -- Ancient And Modern – Historic 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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Few images capture their era like this historic drawing of Halloween -- Ancient And Modern. 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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A woman in a long dress stands at the center of this Halloween postcard, a verse printed beneath her as the picture's main text. Postcards of this kind were mass-produced in the early twentieth century, when holiday cards were a popular way to send seasonal greetings through the mail. Designs often mixed autumn imagery such as harvest colors and ornamental borders with lighthearted or playful verse. Notice how the printed rhyme and the figure work together, since the verse was usually the point of the card while the illustration set its tone.
| 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 | 1,055 × 1,633 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | hallcard35_1 |
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