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Halloween Get-Together with Owl Centerpiece and Witch Hat, October 1971 (Cropped)

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Sun, 20 Dec 2020 17:33:04 +0000

Take a look at the Halloween decorations in the photo. There's a honeycomb tissue owl in the middle of the table, black cats on the cups and plates, and a witch on the hat that the woman is wearing.

For more information, see the full version of this photo.

Halloween Get-Together with Owl Centerpiece and Witch Hat, October 1971

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Sun, 20 Dec 2020 17:33:06 +0000

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A Vintage Photos Theme Park photo for the monthly theme of free-for-all (submit as many vintage photos on any topic as you'd like each week in addition to—or instead of—a photo for the weekly topic). This also fits the previous theme of Halloween (costumes, masks, jack-o'-lanterns, decorations, ghosts, gravestones, or anything else spooky or scary).

A snapshot of a Halloween gathering in October 1971. In the middle of the table are two lighted candles and a honeycomb tissue owl centerpiece. One woman is holding a candy apple, and the woman to her right is wearing a party hat decorated with the silhouette of a witch. Images of black cats are visible on the cups and plates.

See a cropped version of the photo for a better view of the table decorations and witch hat.

For a second photo of the same scene taken from a different angle, see Halloween Get-Together with Owl and Black Cat Decorations, October 1971.

Halloween Get-Together with Owl and Black Cat Decorations, October 1971 (Cropped)

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Sun, 20 Dec 2020 17:33:08 +0000

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Notice the owl centerpiece and the tablecloth pattern with black cats as witches stirring the contents of cauldrons. Also visible on the tables are candles, plates, cups, spoons, and candy apples. For more information, see the full version of this photo.

Halloween Get-Together with Owl and Black Cat Decorations, October 1971

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Sun, 20 Dec 2020 17:33:10 +0000

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A Vintage Photos Theme Park photo for the theme of forks, knives, and/or spoons. This also fits the previous theme of Halloween (costumes, masks, jack-o'-lanterns, decorations, ghosts, gravestones, or anything else spooky or scary).

A snapshot of women gathered around a kitchen table decorated for Halloween in October 1971, as the date printed at the top of the photo indicates.

The centerpiece is a honeycomb tissue owl, originally packaged as a "Dennison Halloween Owl, 10" Tall," as I was able to determine after a Google Images search. The pattern on the tablecloth shows an image of black cats as witches stirring the contents of cauldrons. There are also candles, plates, cups, spoons, and candy apples on the table.

See a cropped version of the photo for a better view of the Halloween decorations.

For another photo of the same scene from a different angle, see Halloween Get-Together with Owl Centerpiece and Witch Hat, October 1971.

Halloween Greetings—What's Meant for Thee, Thee'll Have

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Sun, 20 Oct 2019 21:04:20 +0000

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A Halloween postcard addressed on the other side to "Miss Bertha Duncan, Cresson, Penna.," and postmarked in Altoona, Pennsylvania, on October 24, 1912.

Handwritten message: "This card is a little soon for Halloween but I will send it anyhow. Aquilla."

Printed on the back: "Printed in Saxony 0624."

In a candlelit room at midnight on Halloween, a young woman gazes into a mirror through the steam from a cauldron so she can catch a glimpse of her future husband.

For other Halloween postcards with a mirror-gazing theme, see:

-- Halloween Greeting—I Gaze in the Mirror My Future There to See
-- Halloween Greetings—Look Out for Ghosts
-- Wishing You a Lucky Halloween

Happy Tinted Birthday

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Sun, 03 Mar 2019 05:26:02 +0000

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A photo for the Vintage Photos Theme Park monthly topic of birthdays (submit a photo on this topic each week in addition to—or instead of—a photo for the weekly topic).

A tinted photo of a stylish birthday celebration.

Christmas Candle Kissing Apple

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Sun, 23 Dec 2018 13:56:02 +0000

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"Merry Christmas. Love and best wishes, Catharine."

An odd anthropomorphic scene of a burning candle kissing an apple as they hang together as ornaments on a Christmas tree.

This postcard dates to the first decade of the twentieth century.

Halloween Greetings—When the Candles Flicker

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Mon, 08 Oct 2018 05:42:04 +0000

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A Halloween postcard, circa 1920s.

Hallowe'en Greetings
When the candles flicker
When the wind goes woo-oo
May it mean a fortune
Mighty good for you.

Best Wishes for a Little League Merry Christmas (Cropped)

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Fri, 22 Dec 2017 02:11:02 +0000

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Coach Oliver "Ollie" Fawcett and the Lycoming Dairy Little League Baseball team posing in front of the field house at the historic Carl E. Stotz Field. Fawcett used this photo on a Christmas card in the early 1950s.

Best Wishes for a Little League Merry Christmas

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Fri, 22 Dec 2017 02:11:04 +0000

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A photo of something beginning with C—in this case, a coach on a photographic Christmas card—for the Vintage Photos Theme Park.

"Best wishes for a Merry Christmas. Ollie."

Oliver "Ollie" Fawcett coached the Lycoming Dairy team, which was an early Little League Baseball team in Williamsport, Pennsylvania. He used a photograph of himself and the team on this Christmas card from the 1950s. Coach Fawcett and the boys are posing in front of the field house at what is now known as the historic Carl E. Stotz Field, which is named after the founder of Little League.

Halloween Is the Season When Maidens Dream

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Sun, 29 Oct 2017 08:50:47 +0000

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This is the season the maidens dream
Things of future unforeseen.
Dream sweet dreams, oh! ladies fair;
But of the future have a care!

A postcard addressed on the other side to my grandmother, "Miss Annie Sturtz, ~~Fairhope~~ Boswell, Pa." (I'm not exactly certain where my grandmother lived at the time and why Fairhope was crossed out and Boswell written in). There are two postmarks--one from Somerset, Pa., and another from Fairhope, Pa.--both dated Oct. 29, 1908.

The handwritten message on the back of the card is "Annie taking warning. B." My grandmother evidently didn't heed the warning from the unnamed "B." and married my grandfather a year later.

Haunted Birthday Party, Sept. 1955

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Fri, 21 Oct 2016 20:47:02 +0000

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A photo for the Vintage Photos Theme Park for the topics of spirit photography / ghostly images / haunted houses (post up to 3 images on any combination of these themes).

Representatives from the spirit world have seemingly materialized just in time to sing "Happy Birthday" in what is actually just a double exposure.

See my Ghosts and Hauntings album for more spooky photos.

Wishing You a Lucky Halloween

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Fri, 30 Oct 2015 15:20:04 +0000

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Postmark on the back of this postcard: Worcester, Mass., Oct. 30, 1909.

Addressed to: Miss Ora Bickford, New Gloucester, Maine, R.F.D. no. 1.

Message: "With best wishes for a happy Hallowe'en. Love, Elva."

"A formerly widespread tradition held that young women gazing into a mirror in a darkened room (often on Halloween) could catch a glimpse of their future husband's face in the mirror--or a skull personifying Death if their fate was to die before they married." This explanation of what the women in this postcard is doing appears in Wikipedia's article on scrying, which is defined as "the practice of looking into a translucent ball or other material with the belief that things can be seen, such as spiritual visions, and less often for purposes of divination or fortune-telling."

Cupid's presence in this postcard is somewhat puzzling, but the publisher, L. R. Conwell, also included Cupid in at least one other Halloween postcard. See The Joys of Halloween Be Yours.

See below for additional examples of early twentieth-century postcards that depict mirror-gazing and other Halloween fortune-telling activities.

Tuberculosis Is Preventable - Holiday Greetings, 1936

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Tue, 01 Dec 2015 17:26:48 +0000

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As Wikipedia points out, Christmas seals, like these examples from 1936, are a type of Cinderella stamp.

For other Christmas seals, view the American Lung Association's Christmas Seals Galleries, or check out the association's AmericanLung Flickr photostream.

I Dreamt I Was in a Trance

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Thu, 24 Jul 2014 16:18:55 +0000

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A downright macabre postcard for the Weird Vintage Postcards group.

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I dreamt I was in a trance, my folks thought me dead. They put me in a coffin; they cried and said nice things about me. All night long the old cat, whose kittens I had drowned that morning, sat on my coffin and gloated over my sufferings; she knew I was alive. I was placed in a hearse and in due time arrived at the grave yard. I could hear the mud hit the lid of the coffin and began to choke when I woke up.

Gates ajar. He has went? His chair is vacant.

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Printed on the back: "Bad Dream Series No. 1."

Postmarked twice on Oct. 17, 1910: Once at Middletown, Pa., 7 a.m., and a second time at Manchester, Pa., 9 a.m.

Addressed to: "Mrs. Katie May. Manchester, York Co., Pa."

Handwritten message: "Dear Sister, I wanted to write this [for a] long time but I had no time. We are having two weeks off at the shoe factory. Why didn't you come over? I was at the river. Answer. From Elva, your sis. R.F.D. No. 1."

We Wish You a Merry Christmas Nevertheless

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Mon, 11 Dec 2017 05:58:34 +0000

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In spite of *NRA, FCC, NPS, CCC, PWP, RFC, FDRS, FHA, NFU, ECW, SPCW, AAA, and even with poll tax, gas tax, road tax, map tax, income tax, sales tax, thumb tax, and wise cracks, nevertheless we wish you a merry Christmas, Willis Treaster, Milroy, Pa.

*Explanatory key in our shop.

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These are some of the 1930s New Deal agencies and programs referred to above:

AAA - Agricultural Adjustment Administration
CCC - Civilian Conservation Corps
FCC - Federal Communications Commission
FHA - Federal Housing Administration
NRA - National Recovery Administration
RFC - Reconstruction Finance Corporation

Halloween Greetings—Look Out for Ghosts

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Thu, 09 Oct 2014 16:58:21 +0000

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Sent to Mrs. Nell Frishour, Dayton, Oreg., and postmarked Portland, Ore., Oct. 31, 1909, with the message: "Look out for ghosts tomorrow night. E.W."

Halloween Greeting—I Gaze in the Mirror My Future There to See

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Sat, 25 Oct 2014 03:41:18 +0000

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When I gaze in the mirror
My future there to see,
I wish that I could see you there,
How happy I would be!

Caution

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Tue, 21 Apr 2015 21:33:26 +0000

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"Caution. Dear Miss: The accompanying Chromo is a good illustration 'done in ile' of the gent who escorted you home last Sunday evening, as he appeared at three in the morning while ascending to his room. The Society for the 'Invention of Cruelty to Animals' wishes me to caution you against keeping him up so late again!"

Skip Just Had to Sample His Birthday Cake

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Thu, 17 Jul 2014 17:21:33 +0000

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Handwritten on the back of this photo: "He just has to sample."

See also Skip and His Birthday Cake

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