Participants in Fair Lawn's annual costume parade are shown in this undated photo. The parade traveled around Memorial Park. Courtesy of the Fair Lawn Historic Preservation Commission. |
Six unidentified children are shown sorting through their goodies after trick or treating in Edison in 1976. Star-Ledger archive photo. |
The annual Halloween parade sponsored by the Little Silver Fire Department is shown in this 1974 photo. Courtesy of the Little Silver Fire Department. |
Three unidentified children are ready for trick-or-treating in Paterson as seen in this 1944 photo taken at East 25th Street and Eighth Avenue. Courtesy of the Passaic County Historical Society. |
Is there a doctor in the backyard? From left, Peter Wahler, Beth Starr and Pam Spiwak posed for this photo in 1975 in Cranbury. Courtesy of the Cranbury Historic and Preservation Society. |
Clowns from the Hollywood Charity Amateur Circus took a break to pose for a photo before a fundraising performance at Monmouth Memorial Hospital in 1909. Courtesy of the Pach Collection. |
Herman Katz Day in Highland Park featured an annual costume contest; here are the 1954 winners. Courtesy of the Highland Park Historical Society. |
Children from Morristown Neighborhood House, founded in 1898, are shown watching a Halloween parade in October 1948. Courtesy of Neighborhood House. |
Marchers in Linden's 1952 Halloween parade pass the 300 block of Wood Avenue. Courtesy of the Linden Historical Soicety. |
The New Jersey Association of Police Chiefs dressed as convicts for a fundraising dinner held at Olympic Park in Irvington in 1915. Courtesy of the New Jersey Historical Society. |
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