Vintage Halloween Greeting Card: Witch with Black Cat, Early 1900s

Somewhere between 'pre-Raphaelite fever dream' and 'Halloween card designed by someone who definitely had a type,' this postcard features a dewy-eyed redhead in a teal witch hat peeking out from a misty white void alongside a black cat with piercing yellow-green eyes — the duo gazing outward with the shared intensity of two coworkers who've just agreed to do something mildly illegal. The witch's expression isn't threatening so much as smugly knowing, like she's already hexed you and is just waiting for you to figure it out. The word 'HALLOWE'EN' rendered in dramatic red script on the right feels almost redundant — the vibes were already doing the heavy lifting. This card screams 'Arthur Thayer & Co. thought witches should be hot, and honestly, they weren't wrong.'