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Kristy Baxter
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Vintage Internet Time Traveler

Newspapers, magazines, museums, and ephemera

Also cats & whimsy

Pennsylvania girl

Other Account: Old Timey Food @oldtimey.bsky.social
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Kristy Baxter @kbax.bsky.social · Aug 21
My default vibe

Bill Brandt
undated
Cornell University Collection
b&w photo. a girl in a plaid dress leans back in a chair, legs crossed and feet resting on another chair. By her legs is a table with a glass on it. The girl is holding a cigarette and has a general air of ennui.
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"The drinking game automaton is a pinnacle of entertainment technology from the German Late Renaissance. The Duke of Württemberg presented this unique piece of art as a wedding gift in 1631. It was much more than just a toy to liven up a convivial drinking session... (1/3)
"Drinking gaming machine with Neptune as a winemaker riding a tortoise"
November 7, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Reposted by Kristy Baxter
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How I feel when I’ve washed/blow-dried my hair.
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Going to the Banquet

J. J. Grandville
1877
Public and Private Life of Animals
Black and white caricature of a bird with a long beak and one of those big roughly things on its head, all dressed up in tails, carrying a hat and pulling his gloves on
November 5, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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Going to the Banquet

J. J. Grandville
1877
Public and Private Life of Animals
Black and white caricature of a bird with a long beak and one of those big roughly things on its head, all dressed up in tails, carrying a hat and pulling his gloves on
November 5, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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10 Things I Tame About Shrew
November 5, 2025 at 5:55 AM
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The Critic and Record
Tue, Nov 2, 1875
BLooDshed in BALTiMore.--A gentle- man just from Baltimore states that about 10 o'clock this forenoon a man went to the Fifteenth ward polls to vote, when he was assaulted and shot by a mob. He ran, and while doing so, turued and fred, kill- ing two of hls pursuers. A number of roughs were arrested and put in jail yes- terday.
November 4, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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Oh sweet merciful baby jesus, the little angel floofs in the truck next to us 🥹
Two floofy dogs, one tan and white, the other black and white, peer out the open window of a truck
November 4, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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Started saving my I VOTED stickers on my vanity mirror when we first moved here (and I was in a sticker precinct for the first time), now I'm off to get another
A column of I voted stickers lines the wooden frame of a mirror
November 4, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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WHO DARES DISTURB OUR SLUMBER
Two cats on the platforms of a cat tree, both looking irritated at having been awakened
November 3, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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The mothman and the prophesied bridge
Man and woman in costumes. The man has a posterboard painted like a bridge, sweatpants with little Christmas presents taped to them, and car slippers. The woman is wearing a mothman cape and hood, and fuzzy muk luks.
November 2, 2025 at 2:19 AM
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"Witches or No Witches, You Should Read This Account!"

The Realness of Witchcraft in America
A Monroe Aurand Jr
1942
Internet Archive
book cover, The Ralness of Witchcraft in America. Triangle in center holds a silhouetted witch on broomstick. On either side, listed: WITCH-DOCTORS POW-WOWS ANGELS HEX APPARITIONS HEXEREI DEVILS SEX
October 31, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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halloween postcard with a witch riding in an aeroplane with a jack o lantern on the nose, a cat next to her, a broom behind her, and an ace of hearts on the wing. Owls pull her aircraft, tethered to her hand by strings. Text: Tis Halloween and I'm here again from the man in the moon in an aeroplane my charms are new and right up to date go tell by the cards your fortune and fate
October 31, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social
Galaxy of ghouls cover for a paperback collection of short stories a text on the front a handy guide for vampires and well Werewolves of spells and sorcery of switches on witches of shapes dealers and soul swappers of demons and damnations this is Illustrated with the number of little images of which is in Monsters. Then you're the bottom the illustration is signed B Thomas
October 31, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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Historic New England
1910
Illustration of a young girl standing next to a black cat driving a pumpkin coach drawn by four mice. Text reads, "May your Hallow-E'en pumpkin be like Cinderella's coach and four!"
October 31, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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"The blackest cats
that ever were seen
wish you good luck
this Hallowe'en"

Historic New England
ca 1918
three figures with child's bodies but pumpkins for heads hold three black cats. It seems as though they're trying to put smaller pumpkin heads on the cats
October 31, 2025 at 3:34 AM
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Vampira
The Vampire Queen has a sash which says miss American vampire Palisades Park New Jersey black and white photograph of vampire posing sitting on the hood of a 1951 hearse her dress is high enough to show off her nice gams
October 31, 2025 at 2:04 AM
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Historic New England
ca. 1908
postcard with black cats and jack o'lanterns around a message reading HAPPY HALLOWEEN.
October 31, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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I think there's a joke in here but I don't get it

Historic New England
ca 1915
Illustration of hanging harvest baskets, including the head of a black cat, a jack-o-lantern, and candles. Text reads, "Hallowe'en Greetings, This is the night o' Hallowe'en When the witchie might be seen Some o' them black, some o' them green, Some o' them like a turkey bean."
October 30, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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Salem, 2 1/2 Federal Street, witchcraft period jail

Frank Cousins
ca 1865–1914
Digital Commonwealth
black and white picture of a three story building with a section jutting out from the second and third stories
October 30, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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Halloween and the Minnesota snowball

Charles Lewis Bartholomew
between 1898 and 1915
Library of Congress
from source: "Two figures are shown standing outdoors in the snow, one with a jack-o-lantern head and the other with a snowball for a head. The jack-o-lantern wears a bow tie labeled "Halloween" and holds a party horn. From the corner of its mouth, smoky breath emanates, perhaps serving as an indication of the cold temperature. The snowball, in mittens and a tie labeled "Minnesota Snowball," stands next to the jack-o-lantern holding one hand to his mouth."
October 30, 2025 at 1:34 AM
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On Hallowe'en, beware of ye spell of witchcraft

NYPL
1900 - 1930
postcard with witch riding a pumpkin and carrying a broom, but she seems to be pulled around by bats on strings. Text: On Hallowe'en, beware of ye spell of witchcraft
October 30, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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The Chicago Defender
Sat, Oct 31, 1925
HALLOWEEN SUPPERS Club Sandwtchas Apples, Goblin Style Doughnuts Individual Pumpkin Pies Salted Peanuts celery Olives Cheese Sandwiches Ram and Pickle Sandwiches Butter-Scotch Pies Cider Apples
October 29, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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"By pumpkins fat and witches lean...
By coal black cats with eyes of green,
By all the magic ever seen...
I wish you luck this Hallowe'en."

Historic New England
1925
Illustration of a witch surrounded by pumpkins, a cauldron, two young children, and a black cat. Text reads, "By pumpkins fat and witches lean... By coal black cats with eyes of green, By all the magic ever seen... I wish you luck this Hallowe'en."
October 29, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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American soldiers celebrating at the Halloween party organized by the American Red Cross representative at Bellevue Hospital, near Paris

October 1918
Library of Congress
b& w photo of a throng of people gathered around a piano. One soldier plays the piano, others play violin, guitar, drums. Some are semi-costumed, with festive hats.
October 29, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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May your face light up when you see this card
With thoughts of long ago
When the witches held forth in our front yard
And didn't dare pass the old ghost guard
Pacing to and fro

Historic New England
1922
A male sprite with wings lighting a jack-o-lantern in the moonlight. Text reads, "Hallowe'en Greetings, May your face light up when you see this card With thoughts of long ago When the witches held forth in our front yard And didn't dare pass the old ghost guard Pacing to and fro."
October 29, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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A bat and a cat, green-
eyed pumpkins, too,
A nice crawly mouse and
best wishes for YOU
Illustration of a witch surrounded by pumpkins and a black cat, holding the tail of a mouse. Text reads, "Hallowe'en Greeting, A bat and a cat, green-eyed pumpkins, too, A nice crawly mouse and best wishes for YOU."
October 28, 2025 at 4:39 PM