May Day Collection

8 hours is enough, 1928. Creator: Deiters, Max (1892-1947)
8 hours is enough, 1928. Private Collection

Cremorne Gardens - the Maypole Dance, 1858. Creator: Unknown
Cremorne Gardens - the Maypole Dance, 1858. Pleasure gardens in Chelsea, London. This delightful place of public resort was...the centre of great attraction, and was crowded by a brilliant company

La Nouvelle Europe; Le regime communiste a Budapest; un arc de triomphe, place Andrassy... 1919. Creator: Unknown
La Nouvelle Europe; Le regime communiste a Budapest; un arc de triomphe, place Andrassy, le 1er mai 1919; le pilier de gauche porte, en hongrois

The May Queen, and Going A-Maying, 1856. Creator: Unknown
The May Queen, and Going A-Maying, 1856. May Day is a European festival of ancient origins marking the beginning of summer, usually celebrated on 1 May

Fête du 4 Mai, 19th century. Creator: Honore Daumier
Fete du 4 Mai, 19th century. May Day, or La Fete du Travail. Les Burgraves ornant quelques fleurs la statue de la Republique'. The Burgraves decorate the statue of the Republic with flowers

'The May-Day Festivities at St.Mary Cray, Kent, 1890. Creator: Unknown
The May-Day Festivities at St.Mary Cray, Kent, 1890. From "The Graphic. An Illustrated Weekly Newspaper", Volume 41. January to June, 1890

'Jack-In-The-Green'--A May-Day Scene Sixty Years Ago, 1830, 1890. Creator: Unknown
'Jack-In-The-Green'--A May-Day Scene Sixty Years Ago, 1890. From "The Graphic. An Illustrated Weekly Newspaper", Volume 41. January to June, 1890

May Ball, 1763. Creator: Jean-Michel Moreau
May Ball, 1763

The New York Sunday herald. May day [..] May 5th 1895. c1895. Creator: Charles Hubbard Wright
The New York Sunday herald. May day [..] May 5th 1895. c1895

May Day - The fifth page of the album from the collection of I.S. Abramova, 1858. Creator: Mikhail Znamensky
May Day - The fifth page of the album from the collection of I.S. Abramova, 1858. From a collection of 239 drawings and illustrations which include drawings of artifacts from archaeological finds in

Punch or May Day, 1829, (c1915). Artist: Benjamin Robert Haydon
Punch or May Day, 1829, (c1915). The painting is part of the collection of the Tate Gallery, London. From International Art: Past and Present by Alfred Yockney. [Virtue & Company, London, c1915]

May Day festivities, 1891. Plaiting the maypole at St Mary Cray, London. From The Graphic (9 May 1891)

May Day 1920. Artist: Nicolas Kotcherguine
May Day 1920. On the ruins of capitalism the fraternity of peasants and workers marches against the peoples of the world

At Beecher Street School, whose student body consists of half Americans... Southington, Conn
At Beecher Street School, whose student body consists of half Americans of Italian descent and half of Americans of Polish descent, Southington, Conn

The 1st of May, 1920. Creator: Ivanov, Sergey Ivanovich (1885-1942)
The 1st of May, 1920. Found in the collection of Russian State Library, Moscow

Long live the 1st of May, 1923. Creator: Simakov, Ivan Vasilievich (1877-1925)
Long live the 1st of May, 1923. Found in the collection of Russian State Library, Moscow

May 1st - Labor Day, 1920. Creator: Malyutin, Ivan Andreevich (1890-1932)
May 1st - Labor Day, 1920. Found in the collection of Russian State Library, Moscow

Long live the 1st of May, ca 1921-1923. Creator: Simakov, Ivan Vasilievich (1877-1925)
Long live the 1st of May, ca 1921-1923. Private Collection

May Day, France, from the Holidays series (N80) for Duke brand cigarettes, 1890. 1890
May Day, France, from the Holidays series (N80) for Duke brand cigarettes, 1890

Long live the 1st of May, 1929. Creator: Deni (Denisov), Viktor Nikolaevich (1893-1946)
Long live the 1st of May, 1929. Found in the Collection of Russian State Library, Moscow

The 1st of May is the festival of labour. Long live the international unity of the proletariat!, 1920. Found in the collection of the Russian State Library, Moscow

The 1st of May. Workers have nothing to lose, but they have the whole world to win, 1919. Found in the collection of the Russian State Library, Moscow

Preparing for May Day, 1830. Artist: Thomas Fairland
Preparing for May Day, 1830. A young woman is helped to dress in new clothes, before the traditional summer celebration

May Day in London Artist: William Blake
May Day (in London), 1784. Milkmaids with garlands and chimney sweep boys dancing outside a pewterers and a barbers premises in Milk Street

A chimney-sweep dressed in May Day costume, Provincial Characters, 1813
A chimney-sweep dressed in traditional May Day costume, from Provincial Characters, 1813

London Bridge (new), London, c1870. Artist: G Durand
A London May Day showing pedestrians and horse drawn vehicles battling through heavy rain on London Bridge, London, c1870

May Day parade, East Fourteenth Street, near Union Square, New York, USA, early 1930s. Marchers holding up placards with satirical portraits of Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler

Factory workers with their tools celebrate the traditional Socialist holiday, Germany, 1936. May 1st, the German Workers National Holiday

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

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