May Day Collection (#5)

Maypole Dance
Maypole dance, 1899 Date: 1899

Woman with Flag, 1931. Private Collection

The First Of May. The USSR Is The Straight Road To Communism, 1931. Artist: Moor, Dmitri Stachievich (1883-1946)
The First Of May. The USSR Is The Straight Road To Communism, 1931. Private Collection

First of May. Join the battle for the five year plan, 1931. Artist: Klutsis, Gustav (1895-1938)
First of May. Join the battle for the five year plan, 1931. Found in the collection of the Russian State Library, Moscow

The May Day, 1929. Artist: Kuptsov, Vasili Vasilyevich (1899-1935)
The May Day, 1929. Found in the collection of the State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow

Prayers in May, 1941. Artist: Cecil Beaton
Prayers in May, 1941. A group of children, in May Day costumes accompanied by nuns, walk up a hill to church. From Air of Glory, by Cecil Beaton. [His Majestys Stationery Office, London, 1941]

Hobby-horse, May Day ceremonies, Somerset, c1922. The tradition of the Hobby Horse in May Day celebrations exists in several places in the West Country

May Day parade in the Tower of London, 20th century. A print from Tower of London, printed and published by Gale and Polden Ltd, London

Henry the 8th and his Queen out a Maying, 1850. Artist: John Leech
Henry the 8th and his Queen out a Maying, 1850. A satirical illustration showing Henry VIII (1491-1547) and his Queen celebrating May Day

May Day meeting, Russia, 1920. Among those present are Bolshevik leader Grigory Zinoviev (1883-1936), writer Maxim Gorky (1868-1936) and opera singer Feodor Chaliapin (1873-1938)

Popular festivities, mid 19th century. A young couple dance round a garlanded pole (Maypole) while a second couple wait outside the inn to take their turn

Pine Trees at Loch Ashie, 6 miles south of Inverness, Inverness-shire, 20th century. Artist: CM Dixon
Pine Trees at Loch Ashie, 6 miles south of Inverness, Inverness-shire, 20th century. A spectral army is said to appear on the shores of the loch at dawn on May the first

Raising the maypole on May Day in Barwick-in-Elmet, Yorkshire

Soviet poster commemorating May Day, 1950. Artist: A Bearob
Soviet poster commemorating May Day, 1950

May Queen ceremony, Sharrow Lane Infants School
Believed to be Sharrow Lane School, Sheffield

MAY DAY, 1942. Students at the May Day celebration at Beecher Street School in Southington, Connecticut. Photograph by James Fenno, 1942

MAY DAY PARADE. A group of union workers marching in the May Day Parade in New York City. Photograph early 20th century

MAY DAY CEREMONY, 1925. Dorothy Zimmerman, as Spring, crowning Irma Sweeney as the May Queen at the May Day festival in Washington, D.C. 1925

MAYPOLE DANCE. Sweet Briar College students practicing May Day dance around the Maypole, Virginia. Photograph, c1905-1945

MAY was called Trimilki, because then they began to milk the kine three
MAY was called " Trimilki, " because then they began to milk the kine three times in the day. In this woodcut shepherds are watching over the ewes and lambs

May-Day Festivities: Plaiting the May-Pole at St. Mary Cray, Uk

Source Size = 3731 x 2308
May-Day in the Last Century, Painted by Anthony, from the Exhibition of the Society of British Artists

Spring, 1894 (oil on canvas)
XOS847277 Spring, 1894 (oil on canvas) by Alma-Tadema, Lawrence (1836-1912); 178.43 x 80.01 cm; J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, USA; English, out of copyright

William Blake after Samuel Collings (British, 1757 - 1827), May-Day in London, 1784, engraving

May-Day Festivities: a Pastoral Dance at St. Mary Cray, Uk, 1892 Engraving

MAY-DAY: THE CART-HORSE PARADE, PRIZE-WINNERS, 1892 engraving

Lenin with comrades at a May Day rally in Red Square, May 1919, Moscow Russia, History of the Russian Revolution

MAY DAY PARADE, 1913. Children of the striking silk mill workers from Paterson, New Jersey in Union Square, New York City during the May Day parade. Photograph, 1 May 1913

NEW YORK: MAY DAY, 1913. Crowds gathered in Union Square in New York City on May Day, 1913

NEW YORK: MAY DAY, 1909. A crowd gathered in the rain for a May Day parade in New York City, 1909

LABOR DAY PARADE, 1911. Union members marching in the Labor Day parade in New York City, 1 May 1911

LABOR DAY PARADE, 1909. Marchers in a Labor Day parade in New York City, 1 May 1909

MAY DAY PARADE, 1889. A family passing the reviewing stand with the very expensive seats in New York City. Wood engraving, American, 1889

NEW YORK: MAY DAY, 1913. A crowd of marchers gathered in Union Square in New York City on May Day, 1913

LABOR DAY PARADE, 1910. Women marching in the May Day parade in New York City, 1910

MAY DAY PARADE, 1916. Women garment workers at a May Day parade in New York City, 1916

PYLE: MAY DAY. Bringing in the May. Engraving after a drawing by Howard Pyle, 1887

MAY DAY, 1859. May-Day in the Country. Wood engraving, American, 1859

MAYPOLE DANCE, c1907. Women at the National Park Seminary dancing around the Maypole on May Day in Forest Glen, Maryland. Photograph, c1907

MAY DAY DANCE, 1778. Humours of May Day. English cartoon, showing bawdy women revelers dancing in the street before a doorway inscribed Lows. Mezzotint, 1778

MAY DAY, c1910. A group of schoolgirls dancing in a field on May Day, some holding Maypoles in Central Park, New York City. Photograph, c1910

MAY DAY PARADE, 1916. Women and men marching at the May Day Parade as one man holds a sign promoting Socialism in New York City. Photograph, 1916

MAY DAY PARADE, 1910. A group of women marching arm-in-arm with spectators watching the procession at a May Day Parade in New York City. Photograph, May 1910

MAY DAY PARADE, 1916. A group of women marching at the May Day Parade in New York City. Photograph, 1916

MAY DAY PARADE, 1909. A group of women marching at the May Day Parade in New York City. Photograph 1 May 1909

Schoolgirls sitting around a decorated tree used for a Maypole in celebration of May Day, in rural America
MAY DAY, c1906. Schoolgirls sitting around a decorated tree used for a Maypole in celebration of May Day, in rural America. Stereograph, c1906

Children dancing around a Maypole in Central Park, New York City. Photograph, 1905
MAYPOLE DANCE, 1905. Children dancing around a Maypole in Central Park, New York City. Photograph, 1905

Dorothy Zimmerman, as Spring, crowning Irma Sweeney as the May Queen at the May Day festival in Washington, D. C. 1925
MAY DAY PARADE, 1925. Dorothy Zimmerman, as Spring, crowning Irma Sweeney as the May Queen at the May Day festival in Washington, D.C. 1925

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