Hallowe'en Greeting postcard with a lit candle – Historic Print
(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: Hallowe'en Greeting postcard with a lit candle, preserved in this vintage postcard. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.
Framed, it is ready for the wall; unframed, it is ready for the frame you choose. A conversation-starting piece for home, office, or as a meaningful gift. Free shipping in the lower 48 states. Snapshots of the Past, founded in 2001, has served tens of thousands of customers worldwide.
Hallowe'en Greeting postcard with a lit candle
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A jack-o'-lantern-style candle glows at the center of this Hallowe'en greeting postcard, the kind of small printed card people mailed to friends and family in the early 1900s. Halloween postcards from that era, often called "golden age" postcards, were produced in large numbers by American and European printers, and they typically paired bright chromolithographed color with motifs such as pumpkins, black cats, witches, and harvest imagery. Candles were a common device because their flicker suggested the lamp-lit, spooky evenings of the season. Notice how the colors and embossed borders were meant to make a simple holiday note feel special.
| Original scan | 1,014 × 1,597 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | hallcard15 |
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