history of easter

Manuscript Illumination with Scenes of Easter in an Initial A, from an...

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Manuscript Illumination with Scenes of Easter in an Initial A, from an...

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Design for an Altar for Easter Week Celebrations Decorated with Putti ...

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Design for an Altar for Easter Week Celebrations Decorated with Putti ...

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Cartouche framed with scenes of Christ leaving tomb and Easter Bunny

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Easter Monday, or The Cockney Hunt, Thomas Rowlandson. Georgian era 17...

Thomas Rowlandson (British, London 1757–1827 London) Thomas Rowlandson - English caricaturist of the 18th and early 19th centuries Britain, known for his humor, caricatures, satirical drawings, and watercolors... More

Easter card--Cape Mount--A gift to the members of the Foreign Missiona...

Easter card showing Cape Mount, an island in Liberia. Forms part of: American Colonization Society Collection (Library of Congress).

[Design drawing for stained glass window with Easter narrative with No...

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The Easter cross - Print, Library of Congress collection

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 1792

[Crowd waiting for the holy fire to come down from Heaven, a miracle c...

Frank and Frances Carpenter Collection. Copyright by Underwood & Underwood, New York.

Easter decoration - Drawing. Public domain image.

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White House Easter egg roll. 19th century, Library of Congress collect...

Children and adults on grounds of the White House. Public domain photograph of people having fun at picnic in the park, outdoors, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Frances Benjamin Johnston - White House, 1889--Easter Monday

Crowd of people around pool, with the White House in background. Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection (Library of Congress). Original negative may be available: LC-J682-5.

New York shop-girls buying Easter bonnets on Division Street / drawn b...

Illus. in: Harper's weekly, 1890 April 5, p. 256. Public domain photograph - New York, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Easter boom / C.J. Taylor. - Drawing. Public domain image.

Print shows a group of well-dressed people greeting the sun at Easter. On the right, an old woman carrying a sack labeled "Hard Times" is overshadowed and forgotten. Illus. from Puck, v. 35, no. 889, (1894 Mar... More

Easter in the old-world barnyard - a new chicken hatched / Keppler.

Print shows a group of "fighting roosters" labeled "Russia, Germany, France, Austria, Italy, [and] England" standing around a chick labeled "Japan" from a newly hatched egg labeled "Chinese Japanese War"; the c... More

Louis Rhead - Prang's Publications: Easter

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"Easter angel" / J.L. - Drawing. Public domain image.

Photograph shows a design by Joseph Lauber for a stained glass window depicting an angel holding an Easter lily. 27185 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyrighted by Tiffany Glass and Decorating Company, N.Y. Exhibited... More

Easter Telegram to Angelo Palmisano from Mimi Di Gregoria

Inmate File of Angelo Palmisano An old postcard with a handwritten letter and a handwritten message. A postcard with a handwritten message. Public domain postcard scan.

Cover: The Inland Printer, The Easter Number

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She won't bow to the hat / C.J. Taylor.

Print shows an elderly woman wearing late 19th century clothing labeled "Fashion", gesturing toward an "Easter Bonnet" atop a maypole around which many other women have gathered; a smartly-dressed young woman l... More

The Evening Telegraph: Easter Number

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Advertisement for Philadelphia Sunday Press: Easter

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Louis Rhead - The New York Herald: Easter Number

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A promising chicken / Dalrymple., Political Cartoon

Print shows a small chick labeled "Prosperity" that has emerged from a large egg labeled "Easter 1897"; a rooster labeled "Rep. Party" is crowing in the background and a hen with the head of President McKinley ... More

Easter dawn - stereoscopic view, public domain photorpaph

Four little girls at table outdoors with Easter eggs and chicks. 34569 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 130.

[D.C. Wash. - White House - Negro boy holding hand of small white girl...

Title and other information transcribed from unverified, old caption card data and item. Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection. Caption card tracings: Shelf.

Jerusalem (El-Kouds). Church of the Holy Sepulchre at Easter time / Am...

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[Vendor and cart near the White House during the egg rolling]

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Set of paintings of Christ's Passion, by Kosheleff, in Russian Hospice...

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An Easter sermon / Dalrymple. - Public domain photogrpaph

Print shows President William McKinley stopping the hand of a man wearing buccaneer clothing and holding a large sword labeled "Yellow Journalism" and a trumpet labeled "War"; on the right is a goose wearing a ... More

The Dawn of Easter - stereoscopic view, public domain photorpaph

2 children with rabbits, chicks and eggs. Stereo copyrighted by B.L. Singley (Keystone View Co.). No. 9646. This record contains unverified data from caption card.

A peace dream of Eastertime / Keppler.

Print shows a female figure labeled "Europe" asleep among boxes of "Munitions and Ammunition", large shells, and a barrel of "Powder" with a candle labeled "Ambition" as a burning fuse; she is dreaming about "T... More

Easter - Drawing. Public domain image.

Cupid as messenger delivering hat box to fashionably-dressed woman. Color lithograph by Frank A. Nankwell, copyrighted by Keppler & Schwarzman. Illus. in: Puck, (1899 April 5), cover. This record contains unver... More

[Fifth Avenue on a Sunday morning, New York, N.Y.]

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Church of the Holy Sepulchre and surroundings. Easter procession

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Easter ceremony in the Armenian convent, Jerusalem, Palestine

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McKinley's Easter egg / Dalrymple., Political Cartoon

Special Easter edition centerfold shows William McKinley as a rooster standing next to a broken egg labeled "Vice-Presidential Aspirations" from which several chicks have emerged, identified as: "Lodge, Black, ... More

Shoppers at Easter market, Union Sq.,New York

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A Flower vender's [i.e. vendor's] Easter display, New York

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Board walk, Easter morning, Atlantic City, N.J.

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Easter morn - Drawing. Public domain image.

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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

Men holding Easter flowers, New York

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Buying Easter flowers in Union Square, New York

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Watching Easter Parade from church steps, 5th Ave.

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Flower vender's [i.e. vendor's] Easter display in Union Square Park, N...

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Shoppers at Easter Flower Market, Union Sq., New York

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Easter Flower Market, Union Square, New York

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Easter Flower Market, Union Square, New York

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An Easter floral display, New York

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Set of religious paintings of Christ's passion, by Kosheleff, in Russi...

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Easter Parade, dressmaker taking notes

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[Easter morning on Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y.]

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Flower vender's [sic] Easter display in Union Square Park, New York

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Fifth Avenue on Easter morning - Public domain image. Dry plate negati...

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[Easter morning on Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y.]

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Easter Saturday, Union Square - Public domain demonstration photograph

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An Easter floral display, New York

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Easter morning - stereoscopic view, public domain photorpaph

3 young girls with chicks and flowers. Stereo copyrighted by Underwood & Underwood. This record contains unverified data from caption card.

Peasant girls at the Easter festival, Magara, Greece

Stereo copyrighted by H.C. White Co. No. 4161. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Peasantry Gr. 1901; Photog. I.; Gr. Megara 1901; Holidays Easter 1901; Shelf.

The Easter girls / Ehrhart. - Drawing. Public domain image.

Illustration shows several young women wearing their new Easter fashions outside a church. Includes a poem titled "The Easter Girls" by Madeline Bridges. Illus. in: Puck, v. 51, no. 1308 (1902 March 26), cente... More

Easter crowds on Fifth Avenue, New York

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Fifth Avenue on Easter morning, New York

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Easter procession of the Greek Patriarch, Jerusalem

H37906 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by C.H. Graves. On mount: The Universal Photo Art Co. Title on recto of item. No. 21.

Easter morning in the White House, Washington, D.C.

Flowers and other decorations on table. Stereo copyrighted by C.L. Wasson (International View Co.). No. 2901. This record contains unverified data from caption card.

A Flower vender's [sic] Easter display, New York

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Flower vender's [i.e. vendor's] Easter display, New York

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[New York, flower vendors, Easter display]

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Flower vender's [i.e. vendor's] Easter display, New York

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[Riverside Drive, Easter Sunday, New York City]

H41855 or H41856 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by R.F. Turnbull, N.Y.

[Easter Sunday, Atlantic City boardwalk] /

Crowds of people in their Easter finery parade on the boardwalk near Green's Hotel, and near a pier in Atlantic City. Some people ride in stroller chairs, one man pushes a baby carriage, and the ladies hold the... More

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Easter parade on the boardwalk, Atlantic City, N.J.

Photograph shows an enormous crowd, spanning the length of the boardwalk, posing and dressed in their Easter best.

The rivals / Ehrhart. - Political cartoon, public domain image

Illustration shows a beautiful young woman emerging from a church on Easter; there is a cluster of well-dressed men, all eager for her hand. Two of the men turn away a devil figure dressed in red. Caption: Who... More

Easter egg roll on the lawn of the White House, ca. 1905

Old Greek types of beauty among village women at an Easter dance (outl...

H72596 U.S. Copyright Office Stereo copyrighted by Underwood & Underwood. No. (3) 9304. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Holidays Easter; Dance Folk; Greece Me... More

Boys after buying Easter flowers, New York

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Happy Easter (Frohe Ostern) - Drawing. Public domain image.

Urban Janke (Austrian, Blottendorf/Vienna, 1887–1914)

Best Easter wishes - A black and white photo of a duck pulling a wagon...

Chick pulling flowers in small wagon. H113502 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by the Rotograph Co., New York. No. 2517.

Leaving St. Patrick's Cathedral after Easter Service, 5th Ave., New Yo...

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Easter flowers for sale in Union Square on Easter Sunday, New York

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Holy Sepulcher decorated for Easter, Franciscan Mission

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5th Ave. Easter Parade, New York

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Easter flowers for sale in Union Square, New York

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Easter flowers for sale in Union Square on Easter Sunday, New York

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Easter flowers for sale in Union Square, New York

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5th Ave. Easter Parade, New York

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Poster - Happy Easter! (Frohe Ostern!) - Public domain lithograph

Attributed to Otto Friedr. Carl Lendecke (Austrian, Lemberg (Lviv) 1886–1918 Vienna)

Easter Card - Color lithograph, public domain image

Attributed to Otto Friedr. Carl Lendecke (Austrian, Lemberg (Lviv) 1886–1918 Vienna)

Buying Easter flowers in Union Square, New York

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On 5th Avenue, Easter. Photo by Bain News Service collection

Women on 5th Avenue, New York City, wearing their Easter hats. George Grantham Bain Collection.

Easter Saturday, Union Square, New York City

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Picryl description: Public domain image of a cemetery, funerals, monum...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a burial, cemetery, funeral, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Easter Daisy, Townsendia exscapa, Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Easter - entering St. Thomas's - Glass negative photogrpah. Public dom...

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Easter on 5th Ave., N.Y.C. - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

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[N.J. - Atlantic City - crowd on the boardwalk, probably on Easter]

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St. Pat's Easter - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

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In front of St. Pat's, Easter 1914

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