May Day

Celebrate the start of summer with SuperStock's May Day gallery! Our collection of images and footage captures the ancient festival of May Day, a time-honored tradition celebrated in many cultures. From vibrant parades to traditional dances, our selection of visuals will bring the spirit of this special day to life. Explore ou...Read more
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Historical illustration from the 19th Century, depiction of a Morris dance
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17th CENTURY MAYPOLE MAY POLE DANCE SPRING HOLIDAY MAYDAY MAY 1 PICNIC CELEBRATION RITUAL RITE OF SPRING
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Traditional English Morris Men in costume at a Morris dancing festival in Cambridge, UK
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Traditional English Morris Men in costume with bells and floral hats at a Morris dancing festival in Cambridge, UK
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Masked dancers, Fiesta de la Virgen de la Soledad, Basilica of Our Lady of Solitude, Oaxaca, Mexico, North America
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Middle Eastern woman wearing flower crown in field
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Middle Eastern woman wearing flower crown holding wheat
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Middle Eastern woman wearing flower crown outdoors
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Middle Eastern woman wearing flower crown holding wheat to face
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Middle Eastern woman wearing flower crown in woods
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Middle Eastern woman wearing flower crown near river
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Close up of Middle Eastern woman wearing flower crown
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Middle Eastern woman wearing flower crown looking down
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Middle Eastern woman wearing flower crown sitting on chair in woods
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Germany, Bavaria, Penzberg, Maypole
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Illustration of a Green Man foliate head with face with flowing hair and leaves growing at tips viewed from front done in retro style.. Green Man Foliate Head Circle Retro
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Germany, Bavaria, Upper Bavaria, Traunstein, town square, maypole, detail
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Maypole dance, Schliersee, Upper Bavaria
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Maypole dance, Schliersee, Upper Bavaria
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May 1, 'Maibaum aufstellen' (maypole erection), detail, wreath
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Maypole erection, Chiemgau, young women with plaits
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The "Festival Of Britain" event, group display, and here are seen the Surrey group, the winners, during their performance of the maypole. The Invalid Tricycle National Festival Rally was held today at the military camp, Richmond Park, Surrey. The "Festival Of Britain" event was sponsored by the "Daily Graphic". June 24, 1951. (Photo by S. L. Martin, Paul Popper Ltd).
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Hobart 'Our Day Parade' - childrens Maypole dance - Macquarie Street - Mandatory Photo Credit: TAHO.
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May pole at White House, Washington, D.C. circa May 1930.
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Children dancing around a Maypole, Central Park, New York City, 1905. The traditional spring ritual emerged from Germanic paganism of Iron Age or early Middle ages (BSLOC_2018_3_89)
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Midsummer tradition in the 1930s. As a part of the festivities a Maypole is risen and here a group of people rises the pole before beginning to dance around it. Sweden 1930s.
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Musician at midsummer. An elderly man is playing the violin at an open air midsummer fiest. Sweden Photo Kristoffersson Ref 219-2. Sweden 1940s
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Children dance around a maypole at the White House Easter Celebration on April 1, 1929. First Lady Lou Hoover replaced the Easter Egg Roll with Folk Dancing, because she disliked egg stench that followed. (BSLOC_2015_16_88)
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The Workers' May-Pole, a design for a socialist poster, with a central allegorical figure, and banners and ribbons labelled with abstract ideas such as Leisure, Solidarity and Humanity. Date: 1894
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May-Day festival, with portable maypole, at Eastington, Gloucestershire Date: 1907
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Ladies in coloured shirts on a bicycle display the range of Maypole soap dyes
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A German country fair Date: 16th century
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Children pose for the camera before starting their dance in an open field Date: circa 1905
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Country people dance round the maypole, the girls ducking in and out of the ring formed by the men Date: 1882
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Raising the maypole outside an English manor house, to the applause of the assembled villagers Date: 17th century
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Country lads and lasses make their way to the maypole Date: 1884
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A group of girls and their maypole in Wokingham, Surrey Date: 1904
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Girls dance round a maypole Date: 1930
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Indian Maypole Dance. A traditional English social custom, which seems to have been met with a sizeable lack of interest (!) by this group of Indian Children. Date: circa 1910s
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Close up of a woman, standing in a garden, making a flower wreath.
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Woman standing in a garden, putting a flower wreath in her hair.
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Children Performing Maypole Dance, Central Park, New York City, USA, circa 1905
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Sacramento, California: c. 1895 A Maypole dance at a school's May Day celebration.
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Happy girl celebrating midsummer
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Young female wearing garland of flowers
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Dance around pole
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Girl with garland dancing around midsummer pole
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Piano accordion made by Hohner played by Morris dancer, Southampton, England
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People dancing around Maypole during Midsummer Celebrations at Leksand in Dalarna Sweden
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May Day. Children Dancing Around Maypole.
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England, Essex, Thaxted. Morris Dancing at the Centenary Morris Dancing Festival in Thaxted.
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England, Essex, Thaxted. Morris Dancing at the Centenary Morris Dancing Festival in Thaxted. 2011 is the centenary of the founding in December 1911 of the English Folk Dance Society by Cecil Sharp and the Thaxted Morris and Folk Song Company by Miriam Noel eleven months earlier in January 1911.
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England, Essex, Thaxted. Morris Dancing at the Centenary Morris Dancing Festival in Thaxted. 2011 is the centenary of the founding in December 1911 of the English Folk Dance Society by Cecil Sharp and the Thaxted Morris and Folk Song Company by Miriam Noel eleven months earlier in January 1911.
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England, London, Trafalgar Square. The legs of Monk Seaton Morris Men dancing at the Westminster Day of Dance in Trafalgar Square.
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England, Kent, Rochester. A morris dancer from Green Dragon Morris at the annual Sweeps Festival in Rochester.
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Norfolk, Holt Hall. Children dressed as fairies dance around a maypole at the annual Fairy Fair.
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People dancing around Maypole during Midsummer Celebrations at Leksand in Dalarna Sweden
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Portrait of a Jack in the Green attendant smoking a pipe, Rochester, Kent, England
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Portrait of a Jack in the Green attendant, Rochester, Kent, England
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Girls dancing around a maypole, Pittsburg, Kansas, USA, 1928
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Maypoles II 1993 Anna Belle Lee Washington (1924-2000/American) Oil on Canvas
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