The Halloween Library

May You See Your True Love's Face: Halloween postcard of a woman with a mirror and candle on the stairs – Vintage Wall Art

May You See Your True Love's Face: Halloween postcard of a woman with a mirror and candle on the stairs — vintage postcard
May You See Your True Love's Face: Halloween postcard of a woman with a mirror and candle on the stairs. Vintage postcard from the Halloween Postcards 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 rare vintage postcard captures May You See Your True Love's Face: Halloween postcard of a woman with a mirror and candle on the stairs in remarkable detail. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.

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May You See Your True Love's Face: Halloween postcard of a woman with a mirror and candle on the stairs

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A Halloween greeting card is the focus here, and its catalog entry is brief, so the card itself holds most of the available detail. Printed Halloween greetings became popular in the early twentieth century, especially in the United States, where postcards and die-cut cards often showed witches, black cats, jack-o'-lanterns, and autumn harvest scenes. Commercial printers produced them in large numbers, and people mailed them or traded them at school and neighborhood parties. Examining the lettering, colors, and printing method can help place a card like this one within that era.

Original scan989 × 1,624 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi
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The Halloween Library gathers the pictures behind the holiday: vintage cards, Library of Congress prints and the illustrations from the Hollywood Halloween Horrors book, with the history behind each one.