Images from Book of Halloween, published in 1919.
Images can be found HERE.
Monthly Archives: October 2016
Halloween
A Halloween card from the early 20th century.
Happy Hallowe’en
On this day…
Halloween with the New Addams Family, a TV movie revival of the 1960s show, premiered on the 30th of October, 1977.
Poor Norcia
Horrifying news coming out of Norcia in Italy right now. The third earthquake to hit the region has finally destroyed the world-famous church (and the alleged birthplace of Saint Benedict) in the main square.
We were staying overlooking the church only a few months ago, and now it seems there’s terrible destruction throughout the town.
On this day…
This is an invitation to a Halloween Masquerade Ball at the Non-Commissioned and Petty Officers’ Club on Parris Island, South Carolina in 1935. The event was held on the 30th of October, and this invitation was sent to Edward Ashmann.
Halloween – 1912
Halloween in 1917
On this day: a newspaper cover from 1913
The front page of The Daily Southern Californian from the 29th of October, 1913.
If you can’t enlarge the image enough to read it (sometimes the images don’t work so well on this site!), it can be viewed HERE.
Nearly Halloween
Only a few days to go until Halloween, so here is a “spooky” British movie from 1901: The Haunted Curiosity Shop.
In Times Gone By... 
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