Halloween superstition Mirror at Midnight

There were many Halloween superstitions in the late 19th century and they were made the subject of many early Halloween postcards. One of them was that if a girl looks into a mirror at midnight on Halloween night she would see the image of her future husband.

These are some of the many cards with that theme, that are from the late 1880's and 1890's.

CLASSIC HALLOWEEN WITCHES

These are all early 20th century postcards

ATTRACTIVE EARLY HALLOWEEN WITCHES

Not all witches were old crones, some were rather attractive. In these early 20th century holiday postcards the witches are rather attractive.

Ellen Clapsaddle Thanksgiving children

Ellen Clapsaddle was a successful illustrator at the turn of the century. Her most popular works featured sweet illustrations of children. These are some of the examples of her Thanksgiving cards featuring kids.

Vintage Thanksgiving cards

These cards are at least 100 years old. Thanksgiving cards were surprisingly popular at the end of the 19th century, due to improvements in printing techniques which made cards much less expensive and improvements in the US postal system which made it inexpensive to mail holiday cards.

Budweiser Christmas ads

1947

1949

1958

Shlitz Beer Christmas ads

1956

1960