Halloween in the Time of Cholera

Steven Martin collects pictures of Halloween from long ago.

"My theme is 'Halloween in the Time of Cholera,'" collector Steven Martin told Wired.com in an e-mail interview. "The idea being that people back then were probably on a more intimate level with death — and that would have affected the way they celebrated Halloween."

See a gallery at Wired. http://www.wired.com/culture/art/multimedia/2008/10/gallery_old_halloween http://www.flickr.com/photos/opiummuseum/ to Martin's Flicker stream.