Forgotten Lives Behind the Photographs and Artifacts
All Hallows is Here Again
Shadows of a thousand years rise again unseen,
Voices whisper in the trees, “Tonight is Halloween!” —Dexter Kozen
A Halloween party in the 1960s. Collection unknown.This image was taken in Urnäsch, Switzerland, in 1944. Collection unknown.Caroline Kennedy and John F. Kennedy, Jr., visit their father in the White House Oval Office, 1963. Courtesy John F. Kennedy Library.
My Mother, Elaine Garnand Longmore, and me, Annandale, Virginia, 1966.A teacher’s photo of her class dressed for Halloween in 1958. Courtesy Joe Geronimo.Ringing a doorbell on Halloween sometime in the 1940s. Collection unknown.Dressed as a gypsy, circa 1950. Collection unknown.Getting ready for my Halloween adventure, Annandale, Virginia, 1968.Inspecting the spoils, 1962. Collection unknown.Costumed as a jester, 1915. Courtesy of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.A Halloween party sometime in the 1950s. Collection unknown.Bobbing for apples, circa 1925. Collection unknown.Ready to gather some candy in 1970. Collection unknown.Tricker-or-treaters in the late 1960s. Collection Unknown.Carving pumpkins in 1917. Courtesy Library of Congress.Tricker-or-treaters in Star Wars costumes, circa 1980. Collection unknown.The winner of masquerade at a Halloween party held at Hillview cooperative, Osage Farms, Missouri, 1939. Courtesy Library of Congress.Trick or treating circa the mid-1960s. Courtesy National Museum of Play.A Halloween party at Shafter migrant camp, California, 1938. Courtesy Library of Congress.Halloween decorations in a novelty shop window, circa 1960. Collection unknown.A Halloween party game, circa 1940. The woman in this picture may be a Red Cross “Donut Dolly.” Courtesy National Museum of American History.Trick-or-treaters on Hart Street, Brooklyn, 1965. Courtesy Shorpy.
"Your Dying Charlotte" 
Brought back memories….thanks for sharing!
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Wonderful photos! Thanks for sharing these, makes me quite nostalgic.
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I know. Halloween was such a special day for us kids in the 1960s and 1970s. The warm fuzzies are massive, aren’t they?
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