Tradition Collection (page 13)

Japanese woman, draped in the Rising Sun Flag
Japanese woman, draped in a Kimono made from patterned fabric of the Rising Sun Flag of Japan. She is holding a traditional red paper lantern from a thin stick. Date: circa 1910s

Bouguereau Photo
ADOLPHE-WILLIAM BOUGUEREAU French artist who kept alive the academic tradition when all around him succumbed to impressionism, symbolism and worse : photo about 1900. Date: 1825 - 1905

Japan - Japanese tea ceremony Date: circa 1905

Arab Father and son - Aleppo, Syria. Date: circa 1910s

China - Shanghai - Woman with bound feet reclining on divan. Foot binding was the custom of binding the feet of young girls painfully tight to prevent further growth

Thanksgiving Greetings Postcard - USA Date: 1912

Palermo, Sicily, Italy - Capuchin Catacombs
The Capuchin Catacombs of Palermo (Catacombe dei Cappuccini) are burial catacombs in Palermo, Sicily, southern Italy - a somewhat macabre tourist attraction! Date: circa 1910s

A Sydney Larrikin. Larrikinism is the name given to the Australian folk tradition of irreverence, mockery of authority and disregard for rigid norms of propriety

Ceremony of female circumcision - Conakry, Guinea
Conakry, Guinea, West Africa - Two young women during the Fetes de l excision (Ceremony of female circumcision / female genital mutilation) and their suitor. Date: circa 1904

Antwerp, Belgium - Well by Quentin Matsys
A well with a wrought iron covereing which (legend has it) was designed by one of Antwerps most famous sons, the painter Quentin Matsys (14661529)

Big Stone - Cloughmore, Co. Down, Northern Ireland
The Big Stone - Cloughmore, Rostrevor, County Down, Northern Ireland. This 30-ton granite boulder perches on the slopes of Slieve Meen, 1000 ft above the village of Rostrevor

Maypole Dance
Maypole dance, 1899 Date: 1899

Arch Druids planting Coronation Oak, Crystal Palace
To commemorate the coronation of King George V, the Arch Druid of England planted a Coronation Oak sapling at the Crystal Palace, London. The ceremony was attended by many foreign delegates

Coronation 1953, Queen Elizabeth II - Procession down the Ma
The last stage of Queen Elizabeth IIs triumphal home-coming after her Coronation ceremony at Westminster Abbey on 2 June 1953

Japan - Reclining Geisha girl smoking
Japan - Reclining Geisha girl in a fine kimono smoking before a beautiful decorative screen. Date: circa 1910s

The Christmas Holiday Meet by H. L. Oakley
A series of silhouettes by H. L. Oakley depicting the meeting of a hunt at Christmas time, from the early start to enjoying the stirrup cup and moving off

Gentlemen v Players, 200th Cricket Eleven
Photographs of the eleven Players in the 200th Gentlemen and Players cricket match. The match was played on an annual basis, the tradition having started in 1806

Blue tile image of Ponta Delgada, Madeira
An image of the village of Ponta Delgada, in the district of Sao Vicente on the north coast of Madeira, found inside the church

The Head Eunuch of the Harem at the Topkapi Palace, Constantinople, Turkey

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)

The Scotch Reel by Florence Hardy
Two children dance a pretty Scottish reel dressed in traditional costume

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

Circumcision Ceremony - Morocco
Porcessional cortege during a young boys Circumcision Ceremony - Morocco

Errand Boy & Snowballs
On his way to deliver a goose and a box of Huntley & Palmers Dessert biscuits, a delivery boy stops to have a snowball fight

Father Christmas / Unusual
Father Christmas catches a cold

The Tree of Jesse
The tree of Jesse, whose son David was the first in a line of kings which stretched - according to tradition - to Jesus - from a 12th century English psalter

Children and Yule Log
Five children fetch home a very big Yule Log

18th Century Carols
The village choirmaster, with a group of boys and a man with a fiddle, sing carols in the village street

Midnight Mass
Returning from Midnight Mass, in a village of Savoie (France)

Kissing the Blarney Stone, Ireland
Kissing the Blarney Stone, Blarney Castle near Cork, Ireland. Date: late 19th century

Queens College Back Quad, Oxford University, Oxford
Queens College Back Quad, Oxford, where Harold Auerbach spent two weeks in June 1917 during his Royal Flying Corps training. Date: circa 1910s

Father Christmas at the Crystal Palace, Sydenham
Old Father Christmas attended by a motley group under the direction of the Lord of Misrule 1859. Photograph by Hudson and Kearns 1859

Mounted trooper of the Household Cavalry, Whitehall, London
Mounted trooper of the Household Cavalry on duty in Whitehall, London. Date: circa 1970s

Queen Elizabeth II at the Trooping of the Colour, London
Queen Elizabeth II on horseback at the Trooping of the Colour, London. Date: circa 1980s

Bagpiper in the Trossachs, Scotland
Bagpiper playing in the Trossachs, Scotland. Date: 1959

Two bagpipers on a road in the Trossachs, Scotland
Two bagpipers playing on a road in the Trossachs, Scotland. Date: 1959

Procession, Holy Relic of the Tooth, Ceylon (Sri Lanka)
Annual Procession of the Holy Relic of the Tooth (the Kandy Perahera), Ceylon (Sri Lanka). Kandy is the home of the relic of the tooth of Buddha -- a casket containing it is carried on the back of an

The Modern Boy front cover - Naval
Taking their Christmas medicine. Front cover of The Modern Boy magazine featuring a photograph of two naval cadets on board a training ship tasting the mixture for a Christmas plum duff. Date: 1932

Christmas Day 1854
A page of vignettes showing how Christmas Day was traditionally celebrated by Victorian families in the 1850s. Stockings and present giving was followed by church

Japan - A Kago litter being carried up the mountain
Japan - A Kago being carried up the mountain. Kago are a type of litter used as a means of human transportation by the non-samurai class in feudal Japan and into the Meiji period. Date: circa 1910s

Two Japanese women greet each other with a bow. We are quite unable to ascertain the rather interesting arrangements behind the two women - possibly these are not two ladders wrapped up in Christmas

Women in national costume, Mundal, Norway
Two women in national costume, Mundal, Norway. The costume was worn by most people on Sundays and also as a uniform by hotel waitresses. Date: circa 1910s

Woman in national costume, Mundal, Norway. She is carrying two milk pails with a yoke across her shoulders. The costume was worn by most people on Sundays and also as a uniform by hotel waitresses

Family in national costume, Mundal, Norway
A family (two women and four children) sitting on a doorstep, wearing their Sunday best, in Mundal, Norway. The national costume was worn by most people on Sundays. Date: circa 1910s

Dancers at a ngoma, Mombasa, Kenya, East Africa
Costumed dancers at a ngoma (traditional music and dance festival) in Mombasa, Kenya, East Africa. 1924

African dancer at ngoma, Mombasa, Kenya, East Africa
African dancer decorated with WW1 artefacts at a ngoma (traditional music and dance festival) in Mombasa, Kenya, East Africa. 1924

Folk dancing in Duras, Lot-et-Garonne, France
Piper accompanying folk dancers in Duras, Lot-et-Garonne, France. circa 1969

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