Vintage Halloween Pumpkin Girl Greeting Card | Early 1900s

That massive jack-o'-lantern head with a gap-toothed grin and bulging yellow eyes sits atop what is unmistakably a child's body in a frilly white dress — complete with little pink hands, chubby legs, white stockings, and red Mary Janes. Someone in the early 1900s apparently thought this combination was exactly what was needed. The dress is inexplicably decorated with black cats, as if the pumpkin-child wasn't already doing enough thematic heavy lifting. A dramatic red bow cinched at the waist adds a festive flair that screams 'I am fun at parties' while simultaneously screaming other things. The whole ensemble stands cheerfully on a patch of green grass beneath the words 'FOR A JOLLY HALLOWEEN,' because apparently 'jolly' was the agreed-upon descriptor for sentient gourd-children in the Edwardian era.