rites and ceremonies

The Natche, a ceremony in honour of the Kings son in Tongataboo [i.e. ...

Illus. from: Cook's voyage, octavo edition.

Evreikskie [sic] svadebnye obriady. Privoz nieviesty [sic] v dom zheni...

Photograph shows a group of people escorting the bride and groom (far left) to a house. Illus. in: Turkestanskīĭ alʹbom, chastʹ ėtnograficheskai︠a︡..., 1871-1872, part 2, vol. 1, pl. 80. "Shebi zenan" translat... More

[Religious ceremony, Jerusalem, Palestine]

Picryl description: Public domain image of an ancient city, historic place, stone buildings architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Woman with arms outstretched looking up staircase with shadowy figure...

Title devised by cataloger. No publication information. (DLC/PP-1934:0056). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress).

[Penitentes ceremony, people dragging huge crosses]

Agent Curio Photo Co., Watrous, New Mexico. No. 4. Public domain photograph - New Mexico, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The Ko-ya-ma-shi make merry after the dancing of the Shalako / Ben Wit...

Spectators watch dancers in plaza of pueblo. 3137-8 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Ben Wittick. No. 642.

Grand Review, U.S.V.I., Chickamauga, Ga., Panoramic Photograph

50167 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; A. W. Judd; August 27, 1898; DLC/PP-1901:41472.48.

[Boston ancients entering Trinity Church (Copley Square), Boston, Mass...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of Boston, Massachusetts, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

The "meke" or national dance, a part of all great Fiji ceremonies, Fij...

Stereograph shows participants in the ceremonial "meke" mens club dance, carrying large mace-like clubs. H74597 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 8099. U-86620. Copyright, 1906, by Underwood & Underwood.

Receiving presents after a three days fast in the medicine lodge

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May Day festivities, Forest Glen, Md.

Young women dressed in white, holding flowered boughs, poised for a dance. H95266 U.S. Copyright Office.

Travel views of Japan and Korea

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Haskell Institute, Lawrence, Kansas, students on review

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E.O. & W. RY.: Ceremony of driving first spike--Dalhart, Tex.--Sept. 2...

Copyright by H. Wuethrich. No. 2. Public domain photograph of train tracks, railroad, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Dedication speech by Gr. Ch. Watson, K. of P. Home, June 9, '10

J144942 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; International Stereograph Co.; September 3, 1910. On front: "Copyright 1910 by International Stereograph Co., general photographers, Decatur, Ill".

Edward S. Curtis - Dancing to restore an eclipsed moon

Several Kwakiutl people dancing in a circle around a smoking fire, in an effort to cause a sky creature, which they believe swallowed the moon, to sneeze thereby disgorging it. J197457 U.S. Copyright Office. Ti... More

Capitol Transit Company. Presentation of picture, Capitol Transit Co. ...

Public domain photograph of midcentury American architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

82nd Infantry Division standing "Retreat" following Sgt. Alvin C. York...

J 34350 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; Spencer & Wyckoff; May 22, 1942. Copyright claimant's address: Detroit. Photo inset at lower left depicts Sergeant York speaking at microphone.

National Eisteddfod of Wales 1958, Ebbw Vale

Teitl Cymraeg/Welsh title: Eisteddfod Genedlaethol Cymru 1958, Glynebwy.Ffotograffydd/Photographer: Geoff Charles (1909-2002).Nodyn/Note: Image of the chairing ceremony, won by T. Llew Jones, and also featuring... More

[Prince Palden (left) and friend at New Year's ceremony, Gangtok, Sikk...

Picryl description: Public domain image of ethnic group, people gathering, anthropology, colonies, exotic, indigenous people, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Performers at New Year's ceremony, Gangtok, Sikkim]

"A Tour of the Lost Kingdom: Sikkim" by Dr. Alice S. Kandell and Hope Cooke, Library of Congress, March 13, 2010. Forms part of: Dr. Alice S. Kandell Collection of Sikkim Photographs (Library of Congress). ... More

[Warrior dancing at New Year's ceremony, Sikkim]

Forms part of: Dr. Alice S. Kandell Collection of Sikkim Photographs (Library of Congress). Also represented in LOT 14034-3, pg. no. 014 (color reference copy). Gift; Dr. Alice S. Kandell; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:106).

Opening of the Mary Pickford Theater, James Madison Building, Library ...

Photograph shows Daniel J. Boorstin, Librarian of Congress, speaking outside the Mary Pickford Theater, James Madison Building, Library of Congress during the opening ceremony, 1983. Also shown are (left to rig... More

[Severe Storms/Flooding] East Grand Forks, MN, April 19, 2007 -- A cr...

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[Severe Storms/Flooding] Grand Forks, ND, April 22, 2007 -- FEMA's Ass...

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Neues Reich. Dynastie XVIII. El Amarna [Tell el-Amarna]. Südliche Grä...

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Aethiopen. Begerauîeh [Begrawiya]. Pyramidengruppe A. Pyr. 10. Nordwan...

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Everett J. Erstad interview conducted by James Patrick Leary, 2011-07-...

Interview with ironworker Everett J. Erstad at his home in Oregon, Wisconsin. The audio is in 2 parts: Part 1 (sr01) includes the bulk of the interview with Everett Erstad and his experiences as an ironworker w... More

Everett J. Erstad interview conducted by James Patrick Leary, 2011-07-...

Interview with ironworker Everett J. Erstad at his home in Oregon, Wisconsin. The audio is in 2 parts: Part 1 (sr01) includes the bulk of the interview with Everett Erstad and his experiences as an ironworker w... More

Atlanta campaign. Army of the Cumberland. Divine service by Reverend P...

Soldiers in church service in the field, portrait of Rev. P.P. Cooney, soldiers receiving holy communion, battle scene, and sisters in field hospital. Copyright by Louis Kurz.

R. K. LeBlond Machine Tool Company, Executive Garage, 2980 Madison Roa...

Significance: This curved building, one of the most unusual features of the site when seen from overhead, was originally constructed as a series of personal automobile garages for the senior management of the c... More

Dossay, fête religieuse au Caire (vue instantanée).

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Procession to the Temple of the Great Snake on crowning the King.

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Charleston, South Carolina. Flag-raising ceremony at Fort Sumter. Awai...

Stereograph showing a crowd gathered on the ground and along the parapet for General Anderson's raising of the American flag that four years earlier the Confederates had compelled him to take down. Part of seri... More

World War I in Palestine and the Sinai

Photographs show people and events in Palestine (present day Israel, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip) and the Sinai (Egypt) during World War I. Album focuses on the activities of the Ottoman, German, and Austr... More

World War I in Palestine and the Sinai

Photographs show people and events in Palestine (present day Israel, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip) and the Sinai (Egypt) during World War I. Album focuses on the activities of the Ottoman, German, and Austr... More

World War I in Palestine and the Sinai

Photographs show people and events in Palestine (present day Israel, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip) and the Sinai (Egypt) during World War I. Album focuses on the activities of the Ottoman, German, and Austr... More

World War I in Palestine and the Sinai

Photographs show people and events in Palestine (present day Israel, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip) and the Sinai (Egypt) during World War I. Album focuses on the activities of the Ottoman, German, and Austr... More

World War I in Palestine and the Sinai

Photographs show people and events in Palestine (present day Israel, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip) and the Sinai (Egypt) during World War I. Album focuses on the activities of the Ottoman, German, and Austr... More

World War I in Palestine and the Sinai

Photographs show people and events in Palestine (present day Israel, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip) and the Sinai (Egypt) during World War I. Album focuses on the activities of the Ottoman, German, and Austr... More

World War I in Palestine and the Sinai

Photographs show people and events in Palestine (present day Israel, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip) and the Sinai (Egypt) during World War I. Album focuses on the activities of the Ottoman, German, and Austr... More

World War I in Palestine and the Sinai

Photographs show people and events in Palestine (present day Israel, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip) and the Sinai (Egypt) during World War I. Album focuses on the activities of the Ottoman, German, and Austr... More

World War I in Palestine and the Sinai

Photographs show people and events in Palestine (present day Israel, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip) and the Sinai (Egypt) during World War I. Album focuses on the activities of the Ottoman, German, and Austr... More

World War I in Palestine and the Sinai

Photographs show people and events in Palestine (present day Israel, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip) and the Sinai (Egypt) during World War I. Album focuses on the activities of the Ottoman, German, and Austr... More

World War I in Palestine and the Sinai

Photographs show people and events in Palestine (present day Israel, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip) and the Sinai (Egypt) during World War I. Album focuses on the activities of the Ottoman, German, and Austr... More

World War I in Palestine and the Sinai

Photographs show people and events in Palestine (present day Israel, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip) and the Sinai (Egypt) during World War I. Album focuses on the activities of the Ottoman, German, and Austr... More

World War I in Palestine and the Sinai

Photographs show people and events in Palestine (present day Israel, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip) and the Sinai (Egypt) during World War I. Album focuses on the activities of the Ottoman, German, and Austr... More

World War I in Palestine and the Sinai

Photographs show people and events in Palestine (present day Israel, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip) and the Sinai (Egypt) during World War I. Album focuses on the activities of the Ottoman, German, and Austr... More

World War I in Palestine and the Sinai

Photographs show people and events in Palestine (present day Israel, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip) and the Sinai (Egypt) during World War I. Album focuses on the activities of the Ottoman, German, and Austr... More

World War I in Palestine and the Sinai

Photographs show people and events in Palestine (present day Israel, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip) and the Sinai (Egypt) during World War I. Album focuses on the activities of the Ottoman, German, and Austr... More

World War I in Palestine and the Sinai

Photographs show people and events in Palestine (present day Israel, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip) and the Sinai (Egypt) during World War I. Album focuses on the activities of the Ottoman, German, and Austr... More

World War I in Palestine and the Sinai

Photographs show people and events in Palestine (present day Israel, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip) and the Sinai (Egypt) during World War I. Album focuses on the activities of the Ottoman, German, and Austr... More

World War I in Palestine and the Sinai

Photographs show people and events in Palestine (present day Israel, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip) and the Sinai (Egypt) during World War I. Album focuses on the activities of the Ottoman, German, and Austr... More

World War I in Palestine and the Sinai

Photographs show people and events in Palestine (present day Israel, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip) and the Sinai (Egypt) during World War I. Album focuses on the activities of the Ottoman, German, and Austr... More

World War I in Palestine and the Sinai

Photographs show people and events in Palestine (present day Israel, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip) and the Sinai (Egypt) during World War I. Album focuses on the activities of the Ottoman, German, and Austr... More

World War I in Palestine and the Sinai

Photographs show people and events in Palestine (present day Israel, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip) and the Sinai (Egypt) during World War I. Album focuses on the activities of the Ottoman, German, and Austr... More

World War I in Palestine and the Sinai

Photographs show people and events in Palestine (present day Israel, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip) and the Sinai (Egypt) during World War I. Album focuses on the activities of the Ottoman, German, and Austr... More

World War I in Palestine and the Sinai

Photographs show people and events in Palestine (present day Israel, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip) and the Sinai (Egypt) during World War I. Album focuses on the activities of the Ottoman, German, and Austr... More

World War I in Palestine and the Sinai

Photographs show people and events in Palestine (present day Israel, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip) and the Sinai (Egypt) during World War I. Album focuses on the activities of the Ottoman, German, and Austr... More

World War I in Palestine and the Sinai

Photographs show people and events in Palestine (present day Israel, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip) and the Sinai (Egypt) during World War I. Album focuses on the activities of the Ottoman, German, and Austr... More

World War I in Palestine and the Sinai

Photographs show people and events in Palestine (present day Israel, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip) and the Sinai (Egypt) during World War I. Album focuses on the activities of the Ottoman, German, and Austr... More

World War I in Palestine and the Sinai

Photographs show people and events in Palestine (present day Israel, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip) and the Sinai (Egypt) during World War I. Album focuses on the activities of the Ottoman, German, and Austr... More

World War I in Palestine and the Sinai

Photographs show people and events in Palestine (present day Israel, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip) and the Sinai (Egypt) during World War I. Album focuses on the activities of the Ottoman, German, and Austr... More

World War I in Palestine and the Sinai

Photographs show people and events in Palestine (present day Israel, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip) and the Sinai (Egypt) during World War I. Album focuses on the activities of the Ottoman, German, and Austr... More

Ceremony of "Turning the Sod" of the New Masonic Temple, Thanksgiving ...

J245245 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; Spencer & Wyckoff; December 15, 1920. Similar to PAN SUBJECT - Events, no. 11, street sign in foreground has been eliminated from negative.

Marriage at the camp of the 7th N.J.V. Army of the Potomac, Virginia

Signed lower right: A.R.Waud. Title inscribed below image. Published with descriptive text in: Harper's Weekly, April 4, 1863, p. 216. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.196) Reference print available in... More

Theodor de Bry - [The dances at their great feasts]

Native men and women dancing around a circle defined by posts with carved faces, three Native women stand together in the center of circle. Illus. in: Admiranda narratio, fida tamen, de commodis et incolarvm ri... More

Miya, Andō Hiroshige - Public domain drawing

Print shows people running with horses on long ropes through the torii at the shrine at the Miya station on the Tōkaidō Road. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print ... More

Tadzhikskie remeslennye obriady (arbai pir). Klast' khlieb za pazukh p...

Photograph shows an initiation ceremony(?) for a group of men seated outdoors on a rug. Illus. in: Turkestanskīĭ alʹbom, chastʹ ėtnograficheskai︠a︡..., 1871-1872, part 2, vol. 2, pl. 91. "Arbai pir" translated... More

Religioznye obychai Tadzhikov. Provierka reisom viesov (ikhti sab kerd...

Photograph shows a group of men standing in a circle; many are holding scales. Another well-dressed man is sitting on a horse.

Tadzhikskie remeslennye obriady (arbai pir). Posbieshchenie [sic] v ts...

Photograph shows three men standing and conducting an initiation ceremony(?) for a group of men seated on a rug(?) outdoors. Illus. in: Turkestanskīĭ alʹbom, chastʹ ėtnograficheskai︠a︡..., 1871-1872, part 2, v... More

Max L. Rossvally - A collage of old photos of men and women

Photograph shows Max L. Rossvally, half-length portrait, facing left and also in 10 different scenes of Jewish religious rites: 1. New Year's feast. 2 After reading the Pentateuch. 3. Prostration on day of expi... More

[The opening ceremony of the Vezne Kapısı (Treasury Gate) in the Impe...

Photograph possibly by Abdullah Frères. Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and French. No. 39. In album: Topkapı Sarayı, Istanbul, Ottoman Empire. Forms part of: Abdul-Hamid II Co... More

Paul Gauguin - Mahana Atua / PGO.

Tahitians around sacred statue. Signed with initials and titled on woodblock. Printed from six blocks. Edition 29/30. Guerin, no. 42 Exhibit loan 4250-L.

U.S.S. Texas, presentation of cross and badge to Ensign Gherardi by th...

Public domain photograph of American ship, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The vestal tuccia - Drawing. Public domain image.

Public domain reproduction of artwork, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Capuros [i.e. Kapparot or Kapores]

Photograph shows two girls and a boy reading from a book; each girl is holding a hen as a man holds a rooster over the head of the boy. Copyright 1901, Mandelkern, N.Y.

Ushamnu [i.e. Ashamnu] - A group of jewish men sitting around a table

Photograph shows seven men, wearing prayers shawls and kippots, standing at a table reading religious text with a boy; table covered with cloth showing Star of David. Copyright 1901, Mandelkern, N.Y.

[Boston, Massachusetts., London Honorables entering Trinity Church]

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of Boston, Massachusetts, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

[Igorot men from the Philippines wearing loincloths and carrying hand ...

H46128 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Louisiana Purchase Exposition Co. Public domain photograph of athletics, sports competition, stadium, athlete, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl ... More

Edward S. Curtis - Flute ceremony at Tureva [sic] Spring, Middle Mesa

Hopi Indians gathered at oasis, some seated at water, others standing in background. H55542 U.S. Copyright Office. Curtis no. 1116-04. Forms part of: Edward S. Curtis Collection (Library of Congress).

A feast day in the Fiji Islands -- gaily bedecked natives just beginni...

Stereograph shows men wearing traditional clothing, lined up for the national dance, some carrying clubs and some holding fans.

Presentation exercises of Friends School, Washington, D.C., May 24, 19...

H95355 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; Geo. R. Lawrence Co.; June 17, 1907; DLC/PP-1907:43256.177. Copyright claimant's address: Washington, D.C. No. 180.

Travel views of Japan and Korea

Public domain photograph of Japan, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Edward S. Curtis - Atsina Fly Dance

Five Atsina men, each covered with buffalo blankets, kneeling in a circle, feather-crowned staff in the center. H118644 U.S. Copyright Office. Curtis no. 2972-08. Forms part of: Edward S. Curtis Collection (Lib... More

Travel views of Japan and Korea

Public domain photograph of Japan, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[President and Mrs. Coolidge with Herbert Putnam and others during cer...

National Photo Company Collection. Item in album: v. 1, p. 31, no. 29194.

Trinity College. Women in gowns with garlands on Trinity College campu...

Public domain image of personnel, army, group of people in uniform, parade, historic place, military activity, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

[General view of Los Angeles Olympic Stadium on the opening day of the...

J 12157 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; Organizing Committee of the Games of the Xth Olympiad; August 29, 1932. Title derived from copyright deposit records. No. 4.

Potomac Electric Power Co. Benning plant. Flag raising ceremonies at P...

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Potomac Electric Power Co. Benning plant. Flag raising ceremonies at P...

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Funeral of General of the Armies John J. Pershing Caisson bearing the ...

Picture no. 7. U.S. Army photograph. The original U.S. Capitol building, known as the "Old Capitol," was a small brick building that was completed in 1800. It served as the Capitol building until the current ... More

Opening of the new Roy Evans motor cycle showroom in Beatrice Street, ...

Teitl Cymraeg/Welsh title: Agor siop Beiciau Modur newydd Roy Evans ar Ffordd Beatrice yng Nghroesoswallt.Ffotograffydd/Photographer: Geoff Charles (1909-2002).Dyddiad/Date: June 2, 1954.Cyfrwng/Medium: Negydd... More

[Lama displaying brocaded robe and masks for the New Year's ceremony a...

Winchester, VA, April 8, 2008 -- FEMA Administrator David Paulison at ...

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Winchester, VA, April 8, 2008 -- FEMA Administrator David Paulison lea...

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[Hurricane Katrina] New Orleans, LA, August 27, 2008 -- Admiral Harvey...

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Unveiling tablet commemorating first settlement of Massachusetts. Bay ...

Tablet Rock. "4303," "4304" on left and right negatives. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 015559. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

George L. Bunders interview conducted by James Patrick Leary, 2011-07-...

Interview concerns Bunders' working life as an ironworker with Local 383. Recorded at Bunders' home, Madison, Wisconsin, July 7, 2011. Cultural Traditions of Ironworkers in America's Upper Midwest : Archie Gree... More

Everett J. Erstad interview conducted by James Patrick Leary, 2011-07-...

Interview with ironworker Everett J. Erstad at his home in Oregon, Wisconsin. The audio is in 2 parts: Part 1 (sr01) includes the bulk of the interview with Everett Erstad and his experiences as an ironworker w... More