Old English customs : this is no hatchet burial scene

In an old English legal custom the Solicitor of the City of London, dressed in a business suit, offers a hatchet to the King's Remembrancer, a court official garbed in the traditional dark robes and horse-hair wig of a British lawyer. This ceremony commemorates the annual payment of tools (Quit Rents) to a monarch for the use of crown lands. A woman in a coat and elaborate hat sits next to the Remembrancer.

Publication date: 1937-12-05

Size: 15 x 18 cm

Publisher: Tribune Company

Print type: grayscale

Language:

• English

Geography:

• London (England)

Subject(s):

• Hats--1930-1940
• Robes--1930-1940
• Suits (Clothing)--1930-1940
• Wigs--1930-1940
• Rites & ceremonies--England--London--1930-1940
• Women--Clothing & dress--England--1930-1940
• City of London (England). City Solicitor--1930-1940
• Axes--1930-1940
• Manners & customs--England--London--1930-1940
• Great Britain. High Court of Justice. Queen’s Bench Division--People--1930-1940
• Law & legal affairs--England--London--1930-1940

Genre(s):

• Photographs

Type(s):

• still image
• text

Copyright(s):

• These materials are either in the public domain, according to U.S. copyright law, or permission has been obtained from rights owners. The digital version and supplementary materials are available for all educational uses worldwide.

Is part of:

• The Janet A. Ginsburg Chicago Tribune Image Collection

Source(s):

• Chicago Sunday Tribune (December 5, 1937), Graphic Section, p. 11

Format(s):

• application/pdf
• image/jpeg

Contributor(s):

• Chicago Tribune (Firm). London Bureau