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163 1940s Halloween Stock Photos and High-res Pictures

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teenage girl standing behind halloween jack-o-lantern, smiling. - 1940s halloween stock pictures, royalty-free photos & images

Teenage girl standing behind Halloween jack-o-lantern, smiling.

retro monster party - 1940s halloween stock illustrations

Retro Monster Party

1930s 1940s YOUNG COUPLES DRESSED IN COSTUMES DANCING AT HOME HALLOWEEN PARTY

1930s 1940s YOUNG COUPLES...

GIRL AND BOY WEARING COSTUMES STANDING NEXT TO HALLOWEEN PUMPKIN

GIRL AND BOY WEARING COSTUMES STANDING NEXT TO HALLOWEEN PUMPKIN

Portrait Of Girl Playing With Halloween .

Portrait Of Girl Playing With Halloween

Children Playing With Halloween .

Children Playing With Halloween

retro halloween - 1940s halloween stock illustrations

retro halloween

vintage science fiction scene with aliens and man in space - 1940s halloween stock illustrations

Vintage Science Fiction Scene with Aliens and Man in Space

vintage style movie poster of aliens capturing scared women - 1940s halloween stock illustrations

Vintage Style Movie Poster of Aliens Capturing Scared Women

Children wearing Halloween costumes at Bedford Dwellings, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, October

Children In Halloween Costumes

Five women, including Doris Harper second from right, posed with Halloween decorations including corn shock, jack-o-lantern, black cat, and skeleton...

Women With Halloween Décor

YOUNG COUPLE CARVING HALLOWEEN PUMPKIN

YOUNG COUPLE CARVING HALLOWEEN PUMPKIN

View of a young father and son carving a pumpkin to make a jack-o-lantern for Halloween, New York, 1949.

Making A Jack-O-Lantern

View of a young father and son carving a pumpkin to make a jack-o-lantern for Halloween, New York, 1949.

Making A Jack-O-Lantern

retro rejects and circus freaks - 1940s halloween stock illustrations

Retro Rejects and Circus Freaks

Actress Ava Gardner Dressed as a Witch

Actress Ava Gardner Dressed as a Witch

Black puppy in a Halloween hat holds a plastic jack o' lantern bucket in his mouth.

Children Playing With Halloween And Mask .

Children Playing With Halloween And Mask

1930s 1940s HAPPY SMILING LITTLE GIRL IN COSTUME HOLDING A PAPIER-MACHE PUMPKIN HEAD

1930s 1940s HAPPY SMILING...

Young boy and girl crouch and bob for apples on Halloween, with an illuminated Jack-O-Lantern behind them, circa 1935.

Group of boys bobbing for apples to celebrate halloween, circa 1945.

1930s 1940s GIRL BOBBING FOR APPLE DANGLING ON A STRING WEARING PARTY HAT AND HOLDING EYE MASK

1930s 1940s GIRL BOBBING...

1940s TEEN GIRL WITH SCARED EXPRESSION HEAD TO HEAD WITH CARVED PUMPKIN JACK-O-LANTERN

1940s TEEN GIRL WITH...

Glamorous Witch. Hollywood, California: Holiday art has always been a boon to the movie makers, but for this Halloween they fell heir to a "natural."...

Veronica Lake Posing as Witch

From left to right, Elizabeth Bianco, Barbara Lee, Anthony Dimino and Theresa Imbronone join in the fun at a Halloween party in New York City. The...

retro halloween elements - 1940s halloween stock illustrations

Retro Halloween Elements

American Halloween Celebrations, Americans do not forget Halloween, and the picture shows the preparations of the traditional hollowed out pumpkins...

American Halloween Celebrations

1950s APPLE BOBBING PUMPKINS PARTY JACK-O'-LANTERN

1950s APPLE BOBBING...

Some fun loving women moon the camera while under a table at a Halloween party, ca. 1940

Some fun loving women moon the camera while under a table at a Halloween party, ca. 1940

Photo shows kids leaving novelty shop with masks and other things getting ready for the big Halloween night, on 46th Street between 2nd and 3rd...

Kids Wearing Masks

Children in Halloween costumes posed on sidewalk, Centre Avenue, Hill District, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, October 1945.

Children In Halloween Costumes

GIRL AND BOY SCARED OF SKELTON IN HALLOWEEN FESTIVAL

GIRL AND BOY SCARED OF SKELTON IN HALLOWEEN FESTIVAL

Basic magic book issued by Dante's Institute of Magic in California. One edition was from 1927 and a second was issued in 1941. This is the cover of...

Dante: Tricks for Everybody

Three Warner Brothers starlets prepare to bob for apples to celebrate Halloween, circa 1945.

Starlet Apple Bobbing

Halloween party for US soldiers during World War II. This costume came in for a lot of attention; all the Americans who had cameras took a picture of...

Young Woman in Flag Dress at Dance

1940s 1950s TWIN GIRLS TRYING TO EAT APPLE ON STRING PARTY INDOOR

1940s 1950s TWIN GIRLS...

1940s SMILING TEEN GIRL LEANING OVER TUB ABOUT TO BEGIN BOBBING FOR APPLES FLOATING IN THE WATER

1940s SMILING TEEN GIRL...

SUNSET OVER CORNFIELD WITH SILHOUETTE OF WITCH ON BROOMSTICK FLYING THROUGH THE SKY

SUNSET OVER CORNFIELD WITH...

Actress Bonita Granville and actor Billy Mauch pose as they attend Edith Fellows Halloween Party in Los Angeles, California.

Bonita Granville and Billy Mauch

Three young girls sit together at a table during a Halloween party. Undated photograph, circa 1940's.

Girls at Halloween Party

Ann Rutherford Holding a Jack-o'-Lantern

Ann Rutherford Holding a Jack-o'-Lantern

Woman in a party hat stares a pumpkin, ca. 1945

Woman in a party hat stares a pumpkin, ca. 1945

Woman with a pig mask taunts the photographer, ca. 1940

A woman with a pig mask taunts the photographer, ca. 1940

Actor Peter Lorre, who is becoming resigned to a life of "spook parts," obliges guests at the Chicago Servicemen's Center with a real chiller...

Actor Peter Lorre and Others at Halloween Party for Soldiers

New York, NY: In order to prove that kids can enjoy Halloween, even if they have to stay indoors, the National Halloween Committee gave a party for...

Children Playing Pin the Tail on the Donkey

Between 14 and 18 Oct 1946, Evening Express: -- 15 Oct 1946, kid at a story Halloween display

between 14 and 18 Oct 1946, Evening Express: -- 15 Oct 1946, kid at a story Halloween display

American soldiers, stationed in Britain, at a Halloween party. Original Publication: Picture Post - 1292 - Halloween Party For US Soldiers - pub. 1942

Halloween Party

Boy in overalls, holding maize, sits on overgrown squash next to jack-o-lanterns and corn stalks.

Children Of The Corn

Young girl in a Halloween hat posing with a jack o' lantern.

And his girl friend dancing at a Halloween party for US soldiers in London during WW II. Original Publication: Picture Post - 1292 - Halloween Party...

Young boy's face is illuminated as he peers down into a lit jack-o-lantern, New York, 1949.

Boy And Jack-O-Lantern

View of a young boy, leaning on a table, looking at a lit jack-o-lantern that he helped carve for Halloween, New York, 1949.

Boy And Jack-O-Lantern

no service, dead phone - 1940s halloween stock illustrations

no service, dead phone

vintage science fiction scene with aliens and man in space - 1940s halloween stock illustrations

Vintage Science Fiction Scene with Aliens and Man in Space

1950s Autumn Harvest Corn Field With Inline Corn Shocks And Pumpkins Ready For Market Saugerties New York USA

1950s Autumn Harvest

American child Robert Abbott Sengstacke poses with other, unidentified children at a Halloween party, late 1940s.

Halloween Party

View of costumed party goers as they dance together at the Chicago Art Institute's Halloween Ball, Chicago, Illinois, 1949.

Chicago Art Institute's Halloween Ball

PORTRAIT OF YOUNG WOMAN IN COSTUME HOLDING MIRROR WHILE SITTING IN FRONT OF HALLOWEEN PUMPKIN

PORTRAIT OF YOUNG WOMAN IN COSTUME HOLDING MIRROR WHILE SITTING IN FRONT OF HALLOWEEN PUMPKIN

PORTRAIT OF YOUNG WOMAN CARVING HALLOWEEN PUMPKIN

PORTRAIT OF YOUNG WOMAN CARVING HALLOWEEN PUMPKIN

American actress Jane Withers puts on make-up to complement her Halloween devil's costume, 1944. The photo was taken for the cover of Stars &...

Jane Withers In Devil's Costume

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