Vintage Halloween card no. 163 – Historic Reproduction
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
Description
This rare vintage postcard captures Vintage Halloween card no. 163 in remarkable detail. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
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Vintage Halloween card no. 163
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A witch, a jack-o'-lantern and a black cat share the frame in this Halloween greetings postcard, a combination that became the standard visual shorthand for the holiday in the early twentieth century. Holiday postcards of this kind were mass-produced and mailed by the millions in the years before and after 1910, when the picture postcard craze peaked. Designers often rendered the scene in bright inks with exaggerated, cheerful figures, turning a folk custom tied to autumn and the harvest into a light, sociable message for friends and family.
| Created / published | Early 1900s |
|---|---|
| Medium | Postcard |
| Original scan | 681 × 1,098 px |
| Reference | Card 163 |
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