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Ceremonies Collection

Background imageCeremonies Collection: Pancake Race

Pancake Race
1927: A pancake race at Olney, an old English custom in the village. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Background imageCeremonies Collection: Cenotaph Ceremony

Cenotaph Ceremony
November 1920: King George V presses button unveiling the cenotaph in Whitehall a gun carriage holds body of The Unknown Soldier to be buried in Westminster Abbey

Background imageCeremonies Collection: Back View Of Car With Just Married Sign

Back View Of Car With Just Married Sign
UNITED STATES - Circa 1930s: Back View Of Car With Just Married Sign. (Photo by H. Armstrong Roberts/Retrofile/Getty Images)

Background imageCeremonies Collection: Costume Box

Costume Box
1926: Guests at the Chelsea Arts Ball, London, having a fancy dress party in their box. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageCeremonies Collection: The Coronation of Mary, by Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino, also Raffael da Urbino, Raffaello Santi

The Coronation of Mary, by Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino, also Raffael da Urbino, Raffaello Santi, Raffaello Sanzio
4 people, acrobatics, activities, activity, archive, art work, artistic, artistical, artistically, artistry, artists, arts, artwork, artworks, belief, bible stories, biblical, celebrity

Background imageCeremonies Collection: Allocutio Imperatoris Triumphatis, depicting an emperor addressing the victorious army

Allocutio Imperatoris Triumphatis, depicting an emperor addressing the victorious army
17th-century, antica, armies, attraction, attractions, black, black-and-white, black-white, capital market, capital markets, cash, central italy, ceremonial, ceremonies, coins, concept

Background imageCeremonies Collection: Sacrificium Militare ad Portam, The painting depicts a triumphal ceremony at the gates of Rome in

Sacrificium Militare ad Portam, The painting depicts a triumphal ceremony at the gates of Rome in 1513
17th-century, airport building, airport grounds, airports, antica, arts, attraction, attractions, black, black-and-white, black-white, boarding gate, boarding-gate, building, buildings

Background imageCeremonies Collection: Matrimonium A Latinis olim et romanis nondum, depicts marriage ceremonies in early Rome

Matrimonium A Latinis olim et romanis nondum, depicts marriage ceremonies in early Rome
17th-century, affection, antica, attraction, attractions, black, black-and-white, black-white, celebrate, celebrating, celebrations, central italy, ceremonial, ceremonies, characteristic

Background imageCeremonies Collection: Sponsae Comitatus Ad Mariti Aedes Sub Noctem, image depicting the rites

Sponsae Comitatus Ad Mariti Aedes Sub Noctem, image depicting the rites and ceremonies of escorting the bride on her
17th-century, aedes, affection, animals, antica, attraction, attractions, berlin-wedding, black, black-and-white, black-white, brew, brewing, brides, celebrate, celebrating, celebrations

Background imageCeremonies Collection: Inauguration ceremony for the opening of the Industrial Exhibition in Paris between 1844 to 1849

Inauguration ceremony for the opening of the Industrial Exhibition in Paris between 1844 to 1849, France, Historic
1900s, 19th-century, accurate, art work, arts, artwork, artworks, black, black-and-white, black-white, ceremonial, ceremonies, characteristic, culture, custom, depiction, depictions, digital

Background imageCeremonies Collection: New Year

New Year
1930: Streamers and champagne for revellers at a New Years party. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageCeremonies Collection: Christmas Stocking

Christmas Stocking
circa 1930: The little girl is intrigued by what she has got in her stocking. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageCeremonies Collection: Easter Bunny

Easter Bunny
circa 1930: An Easter bunny carries easter eggs in a basket on his back while one woman adjusts his turn-ups and two others carry large easter eggs. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageCeremonies Collection: Neptunes Daughter

Neptunes Daughter
circa 1930: Sailors dressed up as Neptune and his mermaid daughter for the traditional ceremony of crossing the international date-line. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images)

Background imageCeremonies Collection: Peanut Royalty

Peanut Royalty
June 1927: Two London costermongers at a Costers Donkey Show, Newington Palace Fields, London, have peanuts sewn all over their suits. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Background imageCeremonies Collection: The Blarney Stone

The Blarney Stone
1930: A girl lies flat on the ground, in order to kiss the Blarney Stone in Blarney Castle, Cork city. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageCeremonies Collection: Leviathan Launch

Leviathan Launch
1857: The chain-drums and checking-gear used at the attempted launch of the Leviathan. Original Publication: Illustrated London News - pub. 1857 (Photo by Illustrated London News/Getty Images)

Background imageCeremonies Collection: Kara-Kara Trumpeters

Kara-Kara Trumpeters
25th April 1903: The King of Kara-Karas State Trumpeters at the Anglo-French Boundary Settlement Commission during the colonisation of Nigeria

Background imageCeremonies Collection: Flying The Carp

Flying The Carp
May 1920: The Chinese custom of Flying the Carp, the fish of Good Omen, on the Boys Festival in early May. (Photo by Spencer Arnold Collection/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageCeremonies Collection: Summer Picnic

Summer Picnic
circa 1870: A group of Japanese women enjoy a picnic outdoors on the Kamogawa in Kyoto, southern Honshu. (Photo by Spencer Arnold Collection/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageCeremonies Collection: Primrose Day

Primrose Day
circa 1930: Wreaths decorate Lord Beaconsfields statue in Parliament Square, in front of the Houses of Parliament, on Primrose Day. (Photo by Spencer Arnold Collection/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageCeremonies Collection: Art Lovers

Art Lovers
4th May 1928: A fashionably dressed group, with the women in fur-trimmed coats and the man in a top hat, leaving the Royal Academy after a Private Day View. (Photo by London Express/Getty Images)

Background imageCeremonies Collection: Holy Relics

Holy Relics
March 1946: Rosary beads and religious relics belonging to Catholic priest Leonid Federov who died at Viatka. He was trained as a missionary for service in Russia at the Pontificia Collegio Russo in

Background imageCeremonies Collection: Original Anvil

Original Anvil
1930: The original anvil on which marrying Joe Paisley would set his Bible when performing weddings in the blacksmiths shop at Gretna Green

Background imageCeremonies Collection: Little Drummer Boy

Little Drummer Boy
circa 1955: A little boy, the youngest member of the Fife & Drum Corps of Chester, Connecticut, USA, doing a three-beat roll on a drum. (Photo by Three Lions/Getty Images)

Background imageCeremonies Collection: Congo Women

Congo Women
circa 1955: A group of tribeswomen from the Congo, one carrying a large basket on her head. (Photo by Three Lions/Getty Images)

Background imageCeremonies Collection: Naval Review

Naval Review
15th June 1953: The fleet assembles at Spithead for the Coronation Naval Review by Queen Elizabeth II. (Photo by George W. Hales/Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Background imageCeremonies Collection: Nurses Singing

Nurses Singing
circa 1930: Staff from University College Hospital, London rehearsing Christmas carols. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageCeremonies Collection: Trauungsmappe wedding folder, register office

Trauungsmappe wedding folder, register office

Background imageCeremonies Collection: The Cenotaph

The Cenotaph
November 1920: King George V unveils the cenotaph in Whitehall, London. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images)

Background imageCeremonies Collection: Royal Opening

Royal Opening
King Edward VII arrives at the newly-built Great Stadium in Shepherds Bush for the opening ceremony of the London Olympics, 1908. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageCeremonies Collection: Vice-Regal Procession

Vice-Regal Procession
diry, 16076|colonialism|black, &, white|elephant|Parades, Processions|H/COR(BRI)/VICTORIA/EMPRESS, OF, INDIA|J142756306|riding|Royalty|Transportation|Architecture|male, 21783, ORIG, H, 19804|Customs

Background imageCeremonies Collection: Bride and groom

Bride and groom
UNITED STATES - CIRCA 1960s: Bride and groom partaking in wedding ceremony in church, rear view. (Photo by H. Armstrong Roberts/Retrofile/Getty Images)

Background imageCeremonies Collection: Village Burial

Village Burial
A painting entitled A Village Burial depicting a minister presiding over a funeral in a rural setting, mid 19th century. Original Publication Galerie du Palais Royal

Background imageCeremonies Collection: Tower Of Silence

Tower Of Silence
The Tower of Silence, a Parsi temple near Bombay, circa 1955. The bodies of the dead are left here to be disposed of by vultures. (Photo by Alice Schalek/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageCeremonies Collection: Potlatch Dancers In Klinkwan

Potlatch Dancers In Klinkwan
Portrait of a group of Haida Indians in ceremonial costume at the last formal ceremony in the village before it was abandoned, Klinkwan, Alaska, 1901

Background imageCeremonies Collection: Vishnu

Vishnu
The Hindu god Vishnu seated on a column which rises from the back of a turtle, and is wrapped by the infinite snake Ananta

Background imageCeremonies Collection: Unknown Warrior

Unknown Warrior
The coffin of the unknown warrior is carried in procession through London on its way to its final resting place at the Cenotaph in Whitehall, 11th November 1920


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