Vintage Halloween Costumes
Chris Wild
1865-1955
In an era of body modifications, animatronic masks and advanced cosplay, it's worth remembering that sometimes all you need to generate a sensation of utter terror is a pumpkin, a sheet and a very long stick.
A white-caped figure wearing a Halloween pumpkin mask takes two people by surprise in their kitchen.
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A person, possibly a teacher, wearing a ghost costume behind a lunch table with Halloween decorations in a rural schoolhouse.
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A young man dressed up for Halloween, advertising Spratt's dog cakes.
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A "coven of witches" line up for a Halloween portrait dressed in festive hats and improvised costumes, United States.
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Three girls amuse each other with their masked costumes as they prepare for Halloween festivities in the College Hill neighborhood of Cincinnati, Ohio.
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The Hon Mrs Roland Cubitt dressed as "Three Candles" in a costume made by L & H Nathan Ltd., for the Pageant Of The Superstitions, a feature of the 'All Halloween Ball," and repeated as a matinee at the Haymarket Theatre, London, in aid of the Queen Charlotte Maternity Hospital Maintenance Fund.
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Children "shake hands with the ghost," bobbing for apples into a tub at Halloween.
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A man dresses in costume for Halloween.
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Lois Duncan Steinmetz sits with a pumpkin-headed mannequin in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Credit: Joseph Janney Steinmetz Collection / State Library and Archives of Florida
A young girl in a Halloween mask.
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Vintage Halloween Costumes
Chris Wild
1865-1955