Vintage Halloween Greeting Card Children Frightened 1900s
Text on Card
Oh! The joy, the bliss of Hallowe'en!
Description
"Oh! The joy, the bliss of Hallowe'en!" reads the hand-lettered text on this charming early 1900s Halloween greeting card, set above a scene of two children reacting with apparent surprise or fear to a shoe dangling from a string attached to a tall post or pole. A bat appears in the upper left corner, while jack-o'-lanterns and small round gourds or apples are scattered across the ground in the foreground. The girl wears a blue polka-dot dress and the boy wears striped clothing. The color palette features warm ochres, blue, cream, and brown tones consistent with the era's chromolithographic printing technique.
Subjects
children, shoe, post or pole, jack-o-lanterns, bat, pumpkins
Printing Notes
Decorative gold-accented border frame typical of early 1900s greeting card production
