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Keeping an Open Mind: 1926
Submitted by Dave on Mon, 10/31/2016 - 10:21am.
Washington, D.C., circa 1926. "Man examining skulls." Let's put our heads together and see what we can come up with. 4x5 glass negative. View full size.
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The Black Cat: 1936
Submitted by Dave on Mon, 10/31/2016 - 9:43am.
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Summer 1936. "Cat on porch of a sharecropper's cabin, Hale County, Alabama." Photo by Walker Evans for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
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Pumpkin-Hound: 1923
Submitted by Dave on Fri, 10/31/2014 - 9:04am.
Washington, D.C., or vicinity, 1923. "Getting ready for Halloween, and it's nobody's business where he got the pumpkin." Jack-o-lantern carving in the field with a boy and his dog. Harris & Ewing glass negative. View full size.
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Seven Skulls: 1927
Submitted by Dave on Fri, 10/31/2014 - 3:19am.
Washington, D.C., circa 1927. "NO CAPTION (man with skull display)." Friends of the family, no doubt. Harris & Ewing Collection glass negative. View full size.
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Bones: 1938
Submitted by Dave on Thu, 10/31/2013 - 3:51pm.
Circa 1938. "Philadelphia. Window of a medical supply house near Market and Twenty-Third Street." Photo by Paul Vanderbilt. View full size.
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The Commercial Vampire: 1898
Submitted by Dave on Thu, 10/31/2013 - 12:49pm.
For your Halloween enjoyment we present "The Commercial Vampire," a Leon Barritt cartoon from the July 20, 1898, issue of Vim, a short-lived satirical weekly published in New York. Painting department stores as bloodthirsty predators of small independent businesses, the same argument made today in some quarters against giant retailers like Wal-Mart and Amazon. View full size.
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Halloween Hobo: 1957
Submitted by Dave on Wed, 10/30/2013 - 12:21pm.
Baltimore, Oct. 31, 1957. "Carol Lee, Ray Steward, Howard H." A seasonal scene from the Janet & Kermy Kodachromes. Happy Halloween! View full size.
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