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In the early 1900s, this was one of the most popular ways Americans wished each other a happy Halloween. Millions of these cards traveled through the mail, carrying witches on broomsticks, wide-eyed owls, and pumpkins with cheerful faces. They were small, only about the size of a postcard you might send today, yet they were bursting with color and detail. Would you believe that a scrap of cardboard could become a treasure worth real money a century later?  \nThat penny you imagined buying a postcard with was not a small thing at the time, and neither was the mania for mailing them. Historians often call the years from about 1900 to 1915 the \"golden age\" of postcards, when people collected and swapped them the way kids trade cards or stickers now. Families kept fancy albums on their parlor tables, filled with cards for every holiday and season. Sending a Halloween greeting was as normal then as sending a text today, and the postal system made it cheap and easy. No wonder companies raced to print holiday cards that people would want to buy in stacks.  \nRacing to print the prettiest cards meant using the best technology of the day, and much of it came from far across the ocean. Many of the finest Halloween postcards were printed in Germany, where workers used a method called chromolithography to layer ink in rich, glowing colors. The process pressed the paper against a series of stones or plates, one for each color, until the image looked almost painted. German printers were famous for this craft, and American publishers ordered huge quantities from them. Because so much skill went into each design, those early cards still look vivid more than a hundred years later.  \nThat reliance on German printing presses turned out to be the tradition's weak spot. When World War I began in 1914, trade with Germany was cut off, and the flow of beautifully printed cards slowed to a trickle. At the same time, the telephone was spreading into homes, letting people share holiday wishes with their voices instead of the mail. Slowly the postcard craze faded, and the albums on parlor tables were tucked away in attics and closets. An invention that once fueled a custom was quietly replaced by a newer one.  \nThose forgotten albums are exactly why collectors get excited today. People  \nwho hunt for vintage Halloween postcards are sometimes called deltiologists, which is simply a fancy word for postcard collectors. They search flea markets, estate sales, and online auctions for cards from the golden age, and the rarest ones can sell for surprising sums. A card's value depends on things like its artist, its condition, and how unusual its design is. A black cat printed by a well-known artist can be worth far more than a plain pumpkin, even though both are the same age.  \nArtists, it turns out, are the reason certain cards command such attention. Illustrators like Ellen Clapsaddle designed thousands of holiday cards, and her cheerful Halloween images are prized by collectors to this day. Her work reminds us that behind every witch and owl was a real person imagining how  \nto make a stranger smile. The next time you see a spooky image that feels friendly rather than frightening, remember that a whole industry once existed just to mail a little seasonal joy. Somewhere in an attic, a penny postcard from 1910 may still be waiting to say happy Halloween.  \nHalloween Postcards Long Ago  \nName:  \n\n| Solve each problem.\u003Cbr>Use the article to answer the question.\u003Cbr>1) What are two central ideas developed across the passage?\u003Cbr>A. How German artists learned to paint and why they moved to America\u003Cbr>B. How the telephone was invented and why letters replaced it\u003Cbr>C. How Halloween postcards became popular and why collectors value them today\u003Cbr>D. 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