Old timey Halloween photos

Steve Chasman is posting one old timey Halloween photo every day during the month of October. This one is from 1911. Halloween photo from 1911 (via Little Hokum Rag)

[#1 posted by Anonymous , October 6, 2008 9:52 AM]

Somehow, with the crude costumes and old photo stock, this is major creepy.

[#2 posted by Anonymous , October 6, 2008 10:06 AM]

It always nice to see a picture from my nightmare before I actually dream it. Yikes.

[#3 posted by mwschmeer , October 6, 2008 10:42 AM]

Yeah, that's not racist at all.

[#4 posted by Enormo , October 6, 2008 11:27 AM]

Yeah, that's not racist at all.

Oh, crap. I just got it.

[#5 posted by squeem , October 6, 2008 12:46 PM]

i would wait to label it racist until i knew the story behind the materials used. i believe back at that point the kkk were using a different sort of..hat(?), but i am not entirely sure.

anyway, if i saw a troop of kids coming at me like in that first picture i would shit. i wish i knew enough little kids to dress them up that creepy.
halloween just isn't what it was, say, 15 years ago.
i am in mexico city no, though, i am looking forward to their day of the dead celebrations. i'd like to see the mummy parades.

[#6 posted by Garbanzo , October 6, 2008 1:02 PM]

Are they supposed to be blackface bobbleheads?

[#7 posted by HazardsPay , October 6, 2008 7:47 PM]

This picture is right at the onset of the tradition of "trick-or-treating" being established. Halloween is a prank holiday as of the date of this photo, not a candy holiday like it is today. Notice the lack of "candy bags." I wouldn't be surprised to see baseball bats and clubs instead. Major creepy.

[#8 posted by OM , October 6, 2008 11:06 PM]

...Great Rao! It's a bunch of Klansmen from the Bizarro World!