Thursday, November 22, 2012
A Thanksgiving Triptych
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"More Turkey", from "Thanksgiving in the Country", Scribner's , December 1871 In a different world this would ...
Wednesday, October 31, 2012
Countdown to Halloween: Gathering in the Pumpkins
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(From the Library of Congress, c.1904) Gathering in the pumpkins at the end of this Countdown to Halloween .
Tuesday, October 30, 2012
Countdown to Halloween: A Gilded Age Halloween Extravaganza
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We've reached the penultimate post in this Halloween Countdown - and we've hit a rich vein of Gilded Age spookiness.
Monday, October 29, 2012
Countdown to Halloween: "'Twas the Night of All Hallows", Brooklyn Daily Eagle, 1865
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It's the first Halloween after the Civil War - and is a changing Halloween sensibility discernible in the way that the Brooklyn Da...
Friday, October 26, 2012
Countdown to Halloween: The Civil War
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"Jeff Davis Reaping the Harvest", Harper's Weekly , October 26, 1861 (via Library of Congress ) Halloween during the Civil...
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