Vintage Kids Halloween
JFK reviewing his children's costumes in the Oval Office, kids in full Batman regalia in the 1960s, bobbing for apples in 1940—see vintage pictures of Halloween celebrations throughout the years.
Clockwise from top left: AP Photo (2); Getty Images (2)
Clockwise from top left: AP Photo (2); Getty Images (2)
A young Drew Barrymore dresses up as a purple Crayola crayon for Halloween in 1984.
Ron Galella, WireImage / Getty Images
Punky Brewster actress Soleil Moon Frye and ’80s TV star Ricky Schroder pose in their Halloween costumes in 1984.
AP Photo
Actress Brooke Shields at Halloween party at Regine’s in New York City in 1981.
Ron Galella, WireImage / Getty Images
Singer Sonny Bono poses with a young Chaz Bono as the two wear matching costumes on Halloween in 1972.
CBS Photo Archive / Getty Images
First lady Betty Ford hands out cookies and candy to a few lucky trick-or-treaters on Halloween in 1974.
Everett Collection
Six-year-old Japanese Crown Princess Masako Owada is disguised as a skeleton as she and some friends prepare for the annual Halloween parade in New York.
Imperial Household Agency of Japan / AP Photo
Elvis Presley wears a mask as he and actress Joan Bradshaw celebrate Halloween at a party in Hollywood, Calif., in 1957.
Michael Ochs Archives / Getty Images
A boy and a girl wear Halloween costumes for trick-or-treating in this vintage shot.
Everett Collection
Batman, the Green Hornet, Superman, and a host of other comic strip characters get geared up for Halloween in New Jersey, 1966.
Eddie Adams / AP Photo
President John F. Kennedy in the Oval Office previewing Caroline and John Jr.'s Halloween costumes, October 1963.
Cecil Stoughton, Time & Life Pictures / Getty Images
Elementary school children at a Halloween festival in Anaheim, Calif., in October 1962.
AP Photo
A group of children in Halloween outfits, Milwaukee, Wisc., circa 1930s.
Everett Collection
A Halloween party circa 1940 in New York City. The party was organized for members of Tots' Town, a daycare facility at the Children's Aid Society's James Center.
Keystone / Getty Images
Three girls try out their masked costumes as they prepare for Halloween festivities in the College Hill neighborhood of Cincinnati, Ohio, 1929.
Felix Koch, Cincinnati Museum Center / Getty Images
Children in costumes arriving at a Halloween party, circa 1955.
Joe Clark, Hulton Archive / Getty Images
Elementary school children at the Halloween festival in Anaheim, Calif., in October 1962.
AP Photo
The 1962 Halloween episode of Lassie.
Everett Collection
A young girl in a Halloween hat posing with a jack o' lantern, circa 1945.
Lambert / Getty Images
A group of children wearing Halloween costumes wait in a trick-or-treat line to receive apples from an officer at a police precinct, circa 1960.
American Stock / Getty Images
Full-length portrait of three children wearing Halloween costumes and holding trick-or-treat bags with their hands held out, circa 1955.
Lambert / Getty Images
A little girl, wearing a clown costume for trick-or-treating, chooses a treat at Halloween, 1960s.
L. Willinger, FPG / Getty Images
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