Custom Collection (page 4)

MONEY CHANGER, EGYPT
An Egyptian money changer at Siout enjoys a pipe as he waits for custom outside his place of work Date: 1880

JACK IN THE GREEN 1872
Jack-in-the-Green is performed outside Montagu House, Portman Square, London Date: 1 May 1872

MANDAN HANGING CUSTOM
NATIVE AMERICANS The cutting of young warriors of the Mandan people, hanging from strips of flesh which slowly and painfully tear... Date: 1830s

Manx New Year Custom
MANX NEW YEAR CUSTOM Children go from house to house on New Years morning singing New Years Cakes for which they are rewarded with - you guessed it - cakes. Date: 1879

Custom House
View from the busy River Thames with boat full of trade. Date: Circa 1830

PARIS STREET SCENE 1893
Animated scene at the junction of the rue du Croissant and du Faubourg Montmartre, Paris, with newspaper sellers competing for custom. Date: 1893

Custom House, London
Payment of the customs, the Long Room, Custom House. Date: 1841

LONDON / CUSTOM HOUSE / 1800
Barrels unloaded near the entrance to the Custom House. Date: 1800

LONDON / CUSTOM HOUSE
Wrens Custom House, prior to the fire of 1718. Date: Circa 1710

YOKOHAMA CUSTOM HOUSE
Custom House in Yokohama, Japan Date: 1861

EGYPT / CUSTOM / PHAROAH
Nubian nobles bring tribute to the Pharoah Date: circa 1380 BC

Mother and children with Easter eggs in Brabant, Belgium
A mother and her three children with a basket of Easter eggs in Brabant, Belgium. Date: 1950

Two little girls with Easter eggs
Two little girls compare their Easter eggs, standing on the grass. Date: circa 1890

Cleveland, Ohio, USA - Post Office and US Custom House Date: circa 1931

A rather stern-looking Easter bunny delivering cards & eggs
A rather stern-looking Easter bunny heads out ( again !) delivering cards & eggs... Date: 1908

Faneuil Hall, Custom House - Boston, Massachusetts
Faneuil Hall, Custom House and Statue of Samuel Adams - Boston, Massachusetts Date: 1933

Table of the Seven Deadly Sins by Hieronymus Bosch
Hieronymus Bosch (c.1450-1516). Dutch painter. Table of the Seven Deadly Sins. Detail of the Envy. Prado Museum. Madrid. Spain

Kyabe, Chad, Africa - Sara Man with enormous lip plates
Kyabe, Moyen-Chari, Chad, Africa - Man of the Sara People with enormous upper and lower lip plates. Date: circa 1920s

American Hot Rod postcard - for sticking on ones car bumper, luggage, walls, dens, offices and factories! " These humorous signs are easy to apply

Martin Luther with his Family and their Christmas Tree
The Christmas Tree in History and Legend: Martin Luthers Tree. It is thought (in some quarters) that Martin Luther (and the early Lutherans) were the originators of the Christmas Tree custom

Coronation 1953, Queen accepts pearl sword at Temple Bar
The newly crowned Queen Elizabeth II taking part in a traditional ceremony at Temple Bar in Fleet Street, London on 12 June 1952, 10 days after her Coronation

Queen Elizabeth II - State Opening of Parliament 1964
Queen Elizabeth II in full regalia at the State Opening of Parliament in 1964. Date: 1964

King Prempeh Is humiliation, 1896
" One of the Govenors demands made after the Ashanti rebellion was that King Prempeh should make abject submission in accordance with the native custom

Cornish Gorsedd procession, St Just, Cornwall
The Cornish Gorsedd, a community of modern-day bards, taking part in the Sword of Arthur ceremony and procession at St Just in Cornwall

Matene Te Nga, Chief of the Ngati Maru Tribe, New Zealand
Matene Te Nga, Chief of the Ngati Maru Maori Tribe with tattooed face, New Zealand. Date: circa 1900

Bund and Monument of Sir Robert Hart, Shanghai, China
Bund, Shanghai, Peoples Republic of China - in the foreground can be seen a statue of Sir Robert Hart, 1st Baronet (18351911), a British consular official in China

Wedding Maskers a Sligo Marriage Custom - a view of strawboys calling at the brides house. There are two other ladies in the picture. (Location: Republic of Ireland: County Sligo)

Good Friday skipping contest, Alciston, East Sussex
Good Friday skipping contest outside the Rose Cottage Inn at Alciston, East Sussex, an annual event for which the road is officially closed. Date: 1960s

Chinook family
Chinook tribe, showing a man and woman carrying their baby on the mothers back, a method of flattening the babies forehead was used

Celebrating the crossing of the Equator
Scene on a Royal Navy ship. It is the custom on board ship to indulge in merrymaking when crossing the Equator -- in fancy dress if its your first time. Date: circa 1845

Midday Dancers in Helston Floral Dance, Cornwall
Dancing couples waiting to take part in the Midday Dance of the annual Helston Floral Day, Helston, Cornwall. Date: circa 1970s

Grenadier Guards, St Michaels Mount, Cornwall
Corps of Drums of the Grenadier Guards with Lord John Francis Arthur St Aubyn, 4th Baron St Levan (1919-2013), and his wife Lady Susan St Levan (d 2003), at their home on St Michaels Mount, Cornwall

Robin Steadman in dandyish 1960s jacket
Robin Steadman, hair stylist at The House of Leonard in Grosvenor Street, London wearing a tweed jacket that he had made to measure at John Stephen Custom Built Clothes in Carnaby Street

Samuel Baker, explorer, and King Rionga
Sir Samuel White Baker (1821-1893), British explorer, exchanging blood with Rionga, an African king, as part of a negotiation. Date: 1869

Jewish man praying, Jerusalem
A Jewish man holding a book and praying, Jerusalem. Date: 1920s

Christmas Feasting in reign of Henry VI
The arrival of the peacock in a baronial hall in the days of Henry VI, with the customary procession ushering in the feasts centrepiece

Advertisement for Rowlands Macassar Oil, 1892
An advertisement for Jays of London mourning warehouse, and for Rowlands Macassar Oil, as featured in the Illustrated London News 1892

Customs House, Montevideo
The monumental building of the Customs House in Montevideo, Uruguay, was completed in 1923 and declared a National Historic Monument in 1975

Naval review at Spithead, Hampshire
King George V reviewing the British naval fleet at Spithead, Hampshire. The Fleet Review is a British tradition, in which the reigning monarch reviews the massed Royal Navy

Quit Rents ceremony, Royal Courts of Justice, London
The ancient ceremony of Quit Rents taking place in the Royal Courts of Justice, London. The paying of quit rents by the Corporation of the City of London to the King (or Queen)

Three bedeswomen of Castle Rising, Norfolk
Three bedeswomen of Castle Rising, near Sandringham in Norfolk. When these elderly women enter the almshouses (known collectively as Trinity Hospital) they are required to wear an old Welsh costume

Ivory Coast - Scarification
Scarification on a womans belly in the form of a large spider. The woman is from the Bobo Tribe in Ivory Coast

SCOTTISH BURRY MAN
The Burry Man of South Queensferry, beneath the Forth Bridge. King Malcolm III of Scotland made his escape from the English armies in a similar disguise

Dumb Cake Custom
BAKING THE DUMB-CAKE At Hallowe en, St Johns Eve or other feasts, young women bake a cake in expectation of seeing their beloved : it must be done in total silence

French model holding two large Easter eggs. Date: circa 1910

Customs House and docks, Gothenburg (Goteborg), Sweden
Customs House and waterfront docks, Gothenburg (Goteborg), Sweden. Date: circa 1905

Cartoon, group of London theatre managers
Cartoon showing a group of disconcerted London theatre managers, including William Holland with the long, spiky moustache, and John Hollingshead just behind him -- Something really ought to be done

Long Room, Custom House, City of London
Long Room, Custom House, 20 Lower Thames Street, City of London. Date: circa 1910

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