Friday, October 31, 2008
Halloween in the Time of Cholera
Posted by Sharon on Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 2:00 PM
From Wired.com's gallery of vintage Halloween snaps:
"My theme is 'Halloween in the Time of Cholera,'" collector Steven Martin told Wired.com in an e-mail interview. "The idea being that people back then were probably on a more intimate level with death — and that would have affected the way they celebrated Halloween."
Martin, who has amassed a vast collection of vintage images through eBay, said he's using pictures from 1940 and earlier for the Flickr countdown.
The couple in front have escaped from Oz. I love them.
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