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Day of the Dead

José Guadalupe Posada :: Thought for Hallowe'en , published 1947, woodcut. src Smithsonian American Art Museum and its Renwick Gallery
JosĂ© Guadalupe Posada :: Thought for Hallowe’en , published 1947, woodcut.
src Smithsonian American Art Museum and its Renwick Gallery
José Guadalupe Posada :: Hallowe'en Imp, published 1947, woodcut. src Smithsonian American Art Museum and its Renwick Gallery
JosĂ© Guadalupe Posada :: Hallowe’en Imp, published 1947, woodcut.
src Smithsonian American Art Museum and its Renwick Gallery

DĂ­a de los Muertos

José Guadalupe Posada :: All Hallow's Eve, published 1947, woodcut. src Smithsonian American Art Museum and its Renwick Gallery
JosĂ© Guadalupe Posada :: All Hallow’s Eve, published 1947, woodcut.
src Smithsonian American Art Museum and its Renwick Gallery
José Guadalupe Posada :: Calavera of the Engraver, published 1947, woodcut. src Smithsonian American Art Museum and its Renwick Gallery
José Guadalupe Posada :: Calavera of the Engraver, published 1947, woodcut.
src Smithsonian American Art Museum and its Renwick Gallery

La Calavera Garbancera, ca. 1910

La Calavera Garbancera [aka, La Catrina, La calavera Catrina (*)​] created by Mexican engraver JosĂ© Guadalupe Posada (zinc etching, ca. 1910 / periodical from 1913). (*) Skull of the Female Dandy, named after the mural 'Sueño de una tarde dominical en la Alameda Central' (1947) by muralist Diego Rivera. | source wikimedia commons
La Calavera Garbancera [aka, La Catrina, La calavera Catrina (*)​] created by Mexican engraver JosĂ© Guadalupe Posada (zinc etching, ca. 1910 / periodical from 1913).
(*) Skull of the Female Dandy, named after the mural ‘Sueño de una tarde dominical en la Alameda Central’ (1947) by muralist Diego Rivera. | source wikimedia commons
La Calavera Garbancera [aka, La Catrina, La calavera Catrina (*)​] created by Mexican engraver JosĂ© Guadalupe Posada (zinc etching, ca. 1910 / periodical from 1913). (*) Skull of the Female Dandy, named after the mural 'Sueño de una tarde dominical en la Alameda Central' (1947) by muralist Diego Rivera. | source wikimedia commons
La Calavera Garbancera [aka, La Catrina, La calavera Catrina] created by Mexican engraver José Guadalupe Posada (zinc etching, ca. 1910 / periodical from 1913)

Clara Bow’s Halloween, 1929

Portrait of Clara Bow, October 14, 1929. Original Caption: Clara Bow, celebrated movie star as she looks in costume holding a Halloween pumpkin. Miss Bow sure makes a pretty picture, in this outfit, and one that most anybody would be pleased to see on Halloween. (Photo © Bettmann Corbis) | src Getty Images

The night of spooks and witches

George Rinhart :: Two People Wearing Halloween Costumes, October 29, 1923, Original Caption: Tis the night of spooks and witches, tis Halloween…And they will be at every party, offering plenty of merriment and creepy feelings on the night they duck for apples, light the pumpkin shells and celebrate Halloween. (Photo © Corbis) | src Getty Images