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- Bennie Gardner Portlock, Marie Foster, and Others Celebrate Rose Marie Foster's 16th Birthday, 1954 -
- circa 1954
- Collections - Artifact
Bennie Gardner Portlock, Marie Foster, and Others Celebrate Rose Marie Foster's 16th Birthday, 1954
- Dinner Set-up for the Troy Athens High School Prom, May 13, 2006 -
- May 13, 2006
- Collections - Artifact
Dinner Set-up for the Troy Athens High School Prom, May 13, 2006
- Photographic Postcard Showing a Halloween Dinner Party about 1910-1915 - By the 1910s, Halloween's superstitious origins had given way to a national celebration of mystery and innocent fun. Early gatherings were designed as matchmaking parties for young people, with games to "predict" matrimonial futures and ample opportunity for flirtation. This get-together featured a jack-o-lantern--a unique blend of immigrant customs and native harvest crops that came to symbolize the American Halloween.
- 1910-1915
- Collections - Artifact
Photographic Postcard Showing a Halloween Dinner Party about 1910-1915
By the 1910s, Halloween's superstitious origins had given way to a national celebration of mystery and innocent fun. Early gatherings were designed as matchmaking parties for young people, with games to "predict" matrimonial futures and ample opportunity for flirtation. This get-together featured a jack-o-lantern--a unique blend of immigrant customs and native harvest crops that came to symbolize the American Halloween.