A collection of Halloween postcards from "golden age" of picture postcards(publicdomainreview.org)
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A collection of Halloween postcards from "golden age" of picture postcards
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If anyone else is wondering, TIL the spelling “Hallowe’en” on a number of these postcards is a contraction of “All Hallows’ Even," and that "even" was a common term for "evening" in Old and Middle English.
Related:
A Very Deep History of Halloween
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41983412
A Very Deep History of Halloween
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41983412