Custom Collection (page 8)

Crowd of people with Festival Car, India
A crowd of people with a Festival Car, India, as part of the Hindu Ratha-Yatra or Roth Jatra or Chariot Festival. Date: circa 1890s

Greetings card with cherubs watering heart flowers
Christmas and New Year card featuring a jolly scene as winged cherubim water heart flowers with green watering cans. Date: circa 1910s

Silhouette Calendar -- February, Saint Valentines Day. Showing a little boy handing a heart shape (perhaps a box of chocolates) to a girl. Date: 20th century

Silhouette Calendar -- December, Christmas Parties. Showing a little boy running away from a girl who is standing expectantly under the mistletoe. Date: 20th century

Club Day - Bledington, Gloucestershire Date: 1905

Thames at the Custom Hse
The crowded Thames looking eastward from London Bridge, with the Custom House on the left and the Tower beyond. Date: circa 1840

Thames at Custom House
A paddle steamer passes the Custom House. Date: circa 1840

Custom House, London
The new Custom House, fronting the Thames, viewed from Billingsgate. Date: 1828

Mincing Lane - Hall
Commercial Hall in Mincing Lane, now used as a Custom House. Date: 1814

Sweeps procession on May Day
A chimney sweeps procession in celebration of May Day with a Jack in the Green covered in foliage. Date: 1855

Jack in the Green
Villagers enjoy a May Day celebration as a Jack in the Green, a Lord of the May, and other foliage-clad figures cavort and dance. Date: 1843

Chimney Sweepers on May Day
May Day celebrations of the chimney sweeps. The text with the picture gives some interesting information about Jack in the Green and the Lord and Lady

Javanese Dancers
Seated dancers performing an artistic number for the middle class audience, Java, Indonesia. Date: 1930s

Mowing the Cocks Head
73 Year-old Sam Bennett demonstrates the old Warwickshire custom of Mowing the Cocks Head. Blindfolded, he tries to cut off the top of a clump of grass. Date: 1930s

Feet Washing Custom
A crowd at the Holy Sepulcre in Jerusalem, Israel for the feet washing custom, traditionally held on Good Friday, when Jesus washed the feet of his twelve disciples. Date: early 1930s

Yokohama Pier, Yokohama, Japan - Customs Office
Yokohama Pier, Yokohama, Japan - The brick building in the back housed the Yokohama Customs Office Inspection Bureau - built in 1894 and designed by Japanese architect Yorinaka Tsumaki

Hong Kong - China - Chinese Couple just married - The bride does not uncover her face until the very last minute, when the groom sees her for the first time. circa 1906

Shanghai, China - Custom House Date: circa 1909

Festival at Arapli, near Thessaloniki - A group of jolly men dancing and getingt stuck in to some serious drinking. Date: circa 1910s

Thessaloniki, Greece - Harbour exit and Greek Custom House Date: circa 1910

Turkey - Custom House, View of Izmir - Zeybeks Date: 1898

Participants in female circumcision ceremony, Africa
Participants in a female circumcision ceremony line up in Ubangi-Shari (Oubangi Chari), a French colony in central Africa, now part of the Central African Republic

Fire of Thessaloniki - Town in flames - Custom House Camp
The Great Fire that raged between 18th-20th August 1917 at Thessaloniki, Greece. In 72 hours, 9500 houses were destroyed which left more than 70000 people homeless

Argentinian traveller paying respects at grave of a gaucho
Country Customs in Argentina. A traveller pays his respects at the grave of one of his fellow gauchos. Date: circa 1907

Ceremony of the Sword - King George V - Silver Jubilee
The Ceremony of the Sword - part of the procession of the Lord Mayors Show - seen here at George Vs silver jubilee in 1935. The Lord Mayor of London passes the sword to the sovereign. Date: 1935

Easter Bunny posing with large egg for a photograph
The Easter Bunny poses proudly with a large Easter egg for a photograph, taken by another rabbit! Date: 1906

The Easter Bunny brings eggs home in a wheelbarrow
The Easter Bunny bringing colourful Easter eggs home in a wheelbarrow. Date: 1908

Wiltshire Bacon - Ancient Custom of Burning the Pig (which thankfully seems to have already been dispatched by the farmer/butcher on left). Date: 1908

Two Christmas Angels Date: 1906

French couple with painted Easter Eggs
French couple clutching an array of painted Easter Eggs Date: circa 1910s

Vietnam - Hue - Nam-Giao Festival - Traditional Music
Traditional Music being performed on the 2nd Mound at the Nam Giao Festival, Hue, Vietnam - a ceremony held in honour of the earth and sky. Date: circa 1926

Traditional Hungarian Costume - Mezokovesd
A family in traditional Hungarian Costume surrounding the Christmas tree from Mezokovesd, a town in Borsod-Abauj-Zemplen county, Northern Hungary. Date: circa 1933

Thanksgiving Card - USA - Turkey pulls a pumpkin wagon
Slightly surreal (yet seasonally symbolic!) Thanksgiving Card from the USA depicting a Turkey pulling a cherub riding on a pumpkin wagon. Date: circa 1910s

Thanksgiving Card - USA - Bringing in the Turkey (which appears to be full of life at this stage of proceedings!) Date: circa 1910s

Drawings 54-57 from the Watling Collection
54. Native of NSW with a Foygig and throwing stick. 55. Native going to dance, 56. Natives ornamenting themselves. 57. Natives of NSW ornamenting themselves

JORDAENS, Jacob (1593-1678). The Feast of the Bean King. This work shows an ancient custom of some catholic countries in Europe

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The Sweep
A sweep walking the streets shouting for custom Date: 1903

Japanese Cards Custom
An ancient Spring custom which enables Japanese men and women to buy small wooden cards for a few pence, which are placed before the gods to absolve the offerer from all sins. Date: 1930s

The custom house ordeal. Illustration shows a merchant labeled Dealer in Protected Goods standing in a customhouse, with a whip which forms the words Protective Tariff Bought from Congress; a paper

Old Custom House, Monterey, Cal.. Date c1902

False weights and measures in the New York custom-house. Illustration shows Customs official Edward L. Hedden holding a balance scale labeled HO Thompsons Pat

The Custom House, New York, 1799-1815. Date 1906

The custom-house code of morals under our beautiful tariff system. Illustration shows a vignette cartoon with William Dorsheimer seated at center in the Office of the US District Attorney

Indian Maypole Dance. A traditional English social custom, which seems to have been met with a sizeable lack of interest (!) by this group of Indian Children. Date: circa 1910s

Richmond, Va. Custom House (left) and Capitol (center); rubble in street. Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, fallen Richmond, April-June 1865. Date 1865 April

Charleston, SC The Post Office (old Exchange and Custom House, 122 East Bay). Photographs of the Federal Navy, and seaborne expeditions against the Atlantic Coast of the Confederacy

View taken from south side of canal basin, Richmond, Va. - April, 1865 - showing Capitol, Custom House, etc. Ruins of Richmond, Virginia with soldier, cannon barrels and cannon balls in foreground

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