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Hallowe'en postcard: musicians and turnip-headed dancers with a jack-o'-lantern – Antique Print

Hallowe'en postcard: musicians and turnip-headed dancers with a jack-o'-lantern — vintage postcard
Hallowe'en postcard: musicians and turnip-headed dancers with a jack-o'-lantern. 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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A window into the past: Hallowe'en postcard: musicians and turnip-headed dancers with a jack-o'-lantern, 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. It brings character to any room and makes a memorable 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 postcard: musicians and turnip-headed dancers with a jack-o'-lantern

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Filed under the name hallcard4, this item is catalogued as one of the Halloween cards in the collection, and the number suggests it may belong to a numbered set. Halloween greeting cards were especially popular in the United States and Britain in the early 1900s, when printers produced large runs of embossed and die-cut cards showing witches, black cats, jack-o'-lanterns and harvest scenes. People sent them to friends and family as greetings or party invitations, and surviving examples now show how the holiday was celebrated before mass-produced costumes and candy became central to it.

Original scan1,645 × 1,067 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
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