Snapshots of the Past

hallcard20 1 – Antique Wall Art

hallcard20 1 — historic image
hallcard20 1. Historic image from the Halloween collection.

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

Description

Step back in time with hallcard20 1, a historic image rich in period detail. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.

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hallcard20 1

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Little is recorded about this card beyond its catalog title, so its details have to be read from the image itself. Holiday postcards like this one were a popular form of mail in the United States and Britain in the early 1900s, when printers produced Halloween designs filled with jack-o'-lanterns, black cats, witches, and harvest imagery. Many were embossed or printed in bright colors and sent as inexpensive greetings between friends and relatives. Cards like this show how mass printing and the postal system shaped the way holiday imagery reached ordinary households.

Original scan1,033 × 1,626 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi
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