Photographs

  1. N013.06.00035

    N013.06.00035

    1935

    Games for Halloween: Halloween food. Group of young children sitting around a table at Halloween. Brack, apples & other fruit on the table.

  2. N013.06.00043

    N013.06.00043

    1935

    Games for Halloween: Apple on string.

  3. N013.06.00044

    N013.06.00044

    1935

    Games for Halloween: Girl eating apple.

  4. N013.06.00059

    N013.06.00059

    1935

    Games for Halloween: Finding the ring.

  5. N013.06.00082

    N013.06.00082

    1935

    Halloween Games: Halloween Divination. The girl in this photo is trying to find out about her future and is engaged in a game of marriage divination.

  6. N013.10.00001

    N013.10.00001

    1980

    Games for Halloween: Páistí gléasta suas ag dul ó theach go teach.

  7. N038.01.00001

    N038.01.00001

    1959

    Stick Games: Game of cad, Inis Meáin.

  8. N038.01.00002

    N038.01.00002

    1959

    Sticks Game: the game of ‘cad’, Inish Meadhon. The ‘cad’ (short length of stick: app 2 1/2”) lying against stone in the middle of the road; ‘cad’ is tapped with stick and jumps into the air about 4 or 5 feet thus; before it has time to fall to the roadway again, it is hit full-bloodedly into the adjacent fields. Each player has one try; the distance that the cad is hit is measured by the player with a stick app. 6ft long.

Archival Reference

The Photographic Collection, N013.06.00043

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