This Dark Blue and Orange Halloween Invitation is a Halloween greeting card. The concept originated in the United States in the 1890s and peaked in popularity in the early 1900s. Halloween cards, like Christmas cards and birthday cards, played a similar role before the common home telephone. Many cards from popular designers of the time are now sought after as memorabilia. Volume 4 of Ingall's Home and Art Magazine, published in 1891, contains an early reference to a Halloween card, with a sample design depicted in the article Domestic, Helps for the Home by Laura Willis Lathrop. Because publishers reused images, early Halloween cards typically depicted the same themes as Easter and Christmas cards.
