rites and ceremonies

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...

Public domain photo of a monument, historic place, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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

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

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

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

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

Harold Clausen interview conducted by James Patrick Leary, 2011-07-21

Interview with Harold "Pork" Clausen focuses on his experiences as an ironworker. His wife, Sharon, joins in at the end of the recording session. The audio interview is in two parts: file afc2011062_00168_sr01 ... More

Utagawa Toyoharu - Ukie isedaijingū ryōsho daidaimikagura no zu

Print shows a perspective view in the shrine at Ise with a ceremony taking place before the royal throne. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-... More

[Praying around the fire with rattles]

Group of Natives gathered around a campfire, some appear to be holding rattles; dugout canoes on river in background.

Campus Martius, Detroit, during G.A.R. Parade, Sept. 2, 1914

J1958[...] U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; Miller Studio; September 8, 1914; DLC/PP-1914:44887. Copyright claimant's address: Cleveland, O. Section at left and right may be missing.

Aztec Ruins, Great Kiva, New Mexico 44 near junction of U.S. 550, Azte...

Survey number: HABS NM-165-B Building/structure dates: ca. 1106 Initial Construction

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

Portrait photo of Tadzhikskie svadebnye obriady. Chimilig

Illus. in: Turkestanskīĭ alʹbom, chastʹ ėtnograficheskai︠a︡..., 1871-1872, part 2, vol. 1, pl. 73.

Religioznye obriady i obychai Tadzhikov. Sekta "Dzhakhrie"

Illus. in: Turkestanskii al'bom, chast' ėtnograficheskaia, 1871-1872, part 2, vol. 1, p. 65.

Egypt--opening of the Suez Canal--blessing the canal at Port Said in t...

Crowd at ceremony; three groups under canopied viewing stands. Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, 1870 Jan. 8, pp. 280 and 281.

Knights of Pythias, to all whom it may concern. Know ye that the Supre...

Print shows a design for a large certificate with illustrations depicting knights practicing in a large hall, participating in a ceremony, releasing a person from bondage. Captioned: Friendship, Charity, Benevo... More

New York City--the Chanucka celebration by the Young Men's Hebrew Asso...

Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, 1880 Jan. 3, p. 316.

Church of Holy Sepulchre and surroundings. Sepulchre Church. Easter cr...

Title from: Catalogue of photographs & lantern slides ... [1936?] No. 2910. In album: Easter services in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, 1941, no. 2910 , [p. 33, top]. Forms part of: G. Eric and Edith Matson ... More

[Inauguration Day, University of Virginia]

Public domain photograph - historical image of Washington State, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Inauguration Day, University of Virginia]

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

Panorama, Ft. Crockett, Galveston, Tex., parade 2nd Prov. Regt.

J155595 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; Joseph M. Maurer; May 19, 1911; DLC/PP-1911:44272. No. 3.

Edward S. Curtis - An incident of the Winter Dance--Nakoaktok

Kwakiutl people, some bowing before totem poles in background, others seated facing front as part of the nunhlim ceremony, the four days prior to the Winter Dance. J197495 U.S. Copyright Office. Curtis no. 360... More

Six regiments of artillery on review, largest artillery review since 1...

Photographers' address: El Paso, Tex. Sections at right and left may be missing. Source unknown.

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

Item title devised. The Theodor Horydczak Collection is a collection of photographs taken by Theodor Horydczak (1890-1971) a Polish-born American photographer who worked in Washington D.C. from the 1910s to th... More

White House. Ceremony at White House II

Public domain photograph of a crowd, event, meeting, demonstration, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Edward S. Curtis - Offering to the sun--San Ildefonso

Barechested Tewa man with hands raised skyward, each holding a feather, as he faces the sun. J288498 U.S. Copyright Office. Forms part of: Edward S. Curtis Collection (Library of Congress). Published in: The N... More

Mayor La Guardia poses with a 300-pound halibut at the new Fulton Mark...

Public domain photograph - New York, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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

Picryl description: Public domain image of a power station, dam, electric generator, industrial building, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

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

Public domain photo of a monument, historic place, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

General of the Armies John J. Pershing (1860-1948) lies in state in th...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a historic Capitol building, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Buddhist ceremony inside temple, Sikkim]

Forms part of: Dr. Alice S. Kandell Collection of Sikkim Photographs (Library of Congress). Gift; Dr. Alice S. Kandell; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:106). Ask AK

Ceremonial masked lama dancer, photo by Alice S. Kandell

"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

[Poh, a shaman, performing a ritual to heal a sick child]

"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

Activities and campus locations commemorating Rosa Parks, Soka Univers...

Photographs show a commemorative textile depicting Parks and Soka Gakkai President, Dr. Daisaka Ikeda (top left); Parks' associates, posing with a shovel, possibly for a tree planting ceremony (bottom left); tw... More

Harold Clausen interview conducted by James Patrick Leary, 2011-07-21

Interview with Harold "Pork" Clausen focuses on his experiences as an ironworker. His wife, Sharon, joins in at the end of the recording session. The audio interview is in two parts: file afc2011062_00168_sr01 ... 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

Edward S. Curtis - Arikara Medicine Ceremony--The Ducks

Photo shows three Arikara men, members of the medicine fraternity, dancing, painted to represent ducks and holding rushes. H118600 U.S. Copyright Office. Curtis no. 2902-08. Forms part of: Edward S. Curtis Col... More

James Milliken and President Taylor escort President Roosevelt between...

H33551 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 2592. Copyright by C. L. Wasson.

Brookrace Estate, Bounded to north by Roxiticus Road, west by Union Sc...

Significance: Bookrace Estate includes buildings and structural remains from three centuries of use. 18th century land uses included two homes, a grist mill and structures related to an adjacent iron forge. In ... More

Obriady sovershaemye musul'manami pri molitvie (namaz). Omovenie pered...

Photograph shows a Muslim man washing his feet before prayer. The albumen silver print is a photographic printing process that was widely used in the 19th century. It involves coating paper support with a mixt... 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