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- Lost in Toyland
- And without gloves
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- Smoke Consumer Also Cooks
- Oh that stove!
- Possibly still there?
- What?!?
- $100 Reward
- Freeze Frame
- Texas Flyer wanted
- Just a Year Too Soon
- WWII -- Replacing men with women at the railroad crossing.
- Yes, Icing
- You kids drive me nuts!
- NOT An Easy Job
- I wonder
- Just add window boxes
- Icing Platform?
- Indiana Harbor Belt abides
- Freezing haze
- Corrections (for those who care)
- C&NW at Nelson
- Fallen Flags
- A dangerous job made worse
- Water Stop
- Passenger trains have right of way over freights?
- Coal
- Never ceases to amaze me.
- Still chuggin' (in model form)
- Great shot
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The Goblins Next Door: 1911
November 1911. "Thanksgiving maskers." A door-to-door ritual for kids in costume back when Thanksgiving was a kind of proto-Halloween. 5x7 glass negative, George Grantham Bain Collection. View full size.
Trick or Turkey?
SNL had a skit last week incorporating this concept. Is there really some historic basis for it?
When did costumes switch holidays?
I remember reading about costumed children on Thanksgiving in the book "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn."
When did dressing up make the jump to Halloween? Was it a gradual transition? Was this also a regional difference in the US?
Ragamuffin Day
My mother grew up in the 1930s in northern New Jersey. They had "Ragamuffin Day" the night before Thanksgiving. The preferred treats were nuts and apples.
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