Custom Collection (page 9)

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

Custom House and harbor, Key West. Date c1900

Japanese woman, full-length, standing, facing left, wearing robes of a noblewoman, such as empress or princess; also shows custom of artificial eyebrows. Date 1878?

Feast of the First Fruits, Haifa, Israel
The Feast of the First Fruits, brought to the Keren Kayemeth Leisrael (Jewish National Fund) in Haifa, Israel. Date: 20th century

Arab wedding with camels, Egypt

Guests at a Christmas or New Years Party, possibly at the Savoy Hotel, London. Some of the guests are in medieval style fancy dress, carrying in the traditional Boars Head decorated with holly

Sir Percy Everett piped on board RSS Discovery
Sea Scout Exhibition RSS Discovery Sir Percy Everett, Deputy Chief Scout, being piped on board the RSS Discovery by Sea Scouts. He was visiting an exhibition on board. 1944

Arab wedding at Port Said, Egypt
A traditional arab wedding with two camels and transport at Port Said, Egypt. Date: 20th century

Easter Customs - Czech Republic
In the Czech Republic there are many customs tied up with the Easter weekend. One such custom is illustrated on this postcard

Christmas Tree - Paper cut-out
A paper cut-out picture of a Christmas tree by an Austrian student (aged 12) at the Vienna School for Arts and Crafts Date: circa 1919

Maori Chief - New Zealand, with a spectacular tattoo on his face and wearing a smock made of tiny seashells. Date: 1904

Irish Guards & Mascot
The band and mascot - an Irish Wolfhound - of the Irish Guards wearing the shamrock on St Patricks Day. Date: 1920s

Scilly Isles - The Custom House
Scilly Isles - St Marys - The Custom House Date: circa 1910s

Gretna Green Anvil and Richard Rennison
Richard Rennison - the Gretna Green Anvil Priest 1926 - 1940, pictured with books recording over 2000 marriages overseen at the Old Blacksmiths Shop at Gretna in seven years

Custom House at Tijuana, Mexico Date: 1910s

German Rural Wedding
A wedding in the Valley of the Spree, near Berlin, Germany. The bride follows the ancient custom of wearing a thick veil over her face. The bridegroom wears a frock coat. Date: 1930s

Hope Well Dressing
A Well Dressing at Hope, Derbyshire, England, which takes place on Acension Day. This ceremony is a relic of the old pagan custom of blessing wells for water. Date: 1950s

Roasting Deer on a Spit
Deer and ox roasting is often part of a celebration or custom, in various parts of Britain. Here deer carcasses are being roasted in the open air at Bournemouth, England. Date: 1950s

Ox-Roasting Ceremony
Ox roasting at Leeds, Yorkshire, England, an old custom which was carried on by students of Leeds University, the proceeds going to charity. Date: 1950s

Whit Sunday Custom
The Whit Sunday custom of strawing the floor of the Nave of the church with rushes, dating back to 1493. St. Mary Radcliffe Church, Bristol, England. Date: 1930s

Poole Custom House
The Custom House, Poole, Dorset, England. It was the 3rd custom house to be built on this site, the 2nd one having burned down. Date: built 1813

Princess Elizabeth distributes Maundy money, 1952
Queen Elizabeth II being greeted on arrival at Westminster Abbey, when she distributed the Royal Maundy money. In the year of this picture, 1952

Tijuana Customs Post, Mexico
Mexican Immigration and Custom House at the Border at Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico. Date: circa 1930s

King and Queen going to open Festival of Britain, 1951
King George VI and Queen Elizabeth pictured in an open carriage making their way along Fleet Street to St. Pauls Cathedral to open the Festival of Britain in May 1951

Chile - Agricultural Labourers Camp
The customs of the agricultural labourers in Chile - a temporary camp where the men are spit-roasting meat and drinking Chilean wine. Date: circa 1910

New Baby Greetings postcard
A New Baby Greetings postcard, featuring Dr Stork, who has just delivered a little bundle of joy. " May All Your Troubles Be Little Ones" !!! Date: 1905

Sacred Canon, Java
A sacred canon decorated with flowers as part of a fertility ritual, Java, Indonesia. Date: early 1930s

St. Davids Day Leeks
Smiling Welsh schoolboys, wearing leeks to school, a Saint Davids Day (1st March) custom in Wales. Date: 1960s

Swan Upping - 3
Swan-herds take up swans on the Thames to mark them, a custom called swan-upping Date: 1877

Japanese Tea and Saki
Japanese tea ceremony (Sado); a custom strongly influenced by Zen Buddhism, in which the many rituals must be learned by heart Date: circa 1860

Shooting Apple Trees
In Devonshire, on Twelfth Eve, countryfolk go into the orchards and shoot at one of the best trees, to ensure a good fruit crop : much cider is drunk on this occasion... Date: 1851

Contents of some Christmas crackers, 1905

Dublin 1850
View of the Custom House from the River Liffey, Dublin

A boy in a custom made cart, drawn by a pet sheep
An American boy, dressed as an American Indian, in a custom made cart, drawn by a pet sheep, America

New Custom House, New York City, America

May Day / Ally Sloper
Ally Sloper celebrates May day in the back garden, although the unseemly conduct of a neighbor with a hosepipe sees that the whole affair ends on a damp note

Met Police officer speaking to tourists
A Metropolitan Police officer speaking to a group of young tourists outside Horse Guards Parade in Whitehall, Central London

Music sheet cover for Erin Go Bragh Quadrille
Music sheet cover for the Erin Go Bragh Quadrille by Charles d Albert (1809-1886), with a view of the Custom House Quay in Dublin, Ireland, at sunset

Gaula couple dancing, Funchal, Madeira
Two members of a folklore group from Gaula, seen here dancing in Funchal, the capital city of Madeira. The couple are wearing traditional costume, including black skull caps with points

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