Traditional celebrations related to the beginning of a New Year

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The Savoy Hotel : 1925-1926 New Year's Eve : menu.

East London Hospital for Children, Shadwell: a party in one of the wards on New Year's Eve. Wood engraving, 1870.

Carnival / Cunard White Star.

A red rose with an open mouth baring fangs at the centre, surrounded by blackened thorny rose leaves, representing a response to insults directed at homosexuals; an advertisement for a 'Queer-Party' on 31 December 1994 at S036 in Berlin. Colour lithograph.

Yo! Below : New Year's Eve 2001 : Poland Street open until 2am / [Yo! Sushi].

A demon stealing albums from a print-seller's stall. Lithograph by Charlet, 1825.

Nepal; preparing the Bisket chariot, Bhaktapur, 1986

Torn out pages of a wall calendar from a succession of different months, representing a new year's resolution to keep workplaces accident-free. Colour lithograph, 1989, after L. Ziratzki, 1988.

"New Year's Eve"

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New Year

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Images referencing New Year

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Yo! Below : New Year's Eve 2001 : Poland Street open until 2am / [Yo! Sushi].

A demon stealing albums from a print-seller's stall. Lithograph by Charlet, 1825.

Torn out pages of a wall calendar from a succession of different months, representing a new year's resolution to keep workplaces accident-free. Colour lithograph, 1989, after L. Ziratzki, 1988.

"New Year's Eve"

Carnival / Cunard White Star.