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• Holidays -- Bibliography
• Holidays -- Brazil
• Holidays -- Canada
• Holidays -- Central America
• Holidays -- Colorado
• Holidays -- Denmark
• Holidays -- District of Columbia
• Holidays -- Drama
• Holidays -- Early works to 1800
• Holidays -- East Asia
• Holidays -- England
• Holidays -- Exercises, recitations, etc.
• Holidays -- Fiction
• Holidays -- France
• Holidays -- Germany
• Holidays -- Great Britain
• Holidays -- Greece
• Holidays -- Illinois
• Holidays -- India
• Holidays -- Iowa
• Holidays -- Italy
• Holidays -- Japan
• Holidays -- Jurisprudence, France
• Holidays -- Juvenile fiction
• Holidays -- Juvenile literature
• Holidays -- Kansas
• Holidays -- Korea
• Holidays -- Latin America
• Holidays -- Law and legislation
• Holidays -- Lithuania
• Holidays -- Louisiana
• Holidays -- Massachusetts
• Holidays -- Mexico
• Holidays -- Michigan
• Holidays -- Minnesota
• Holidays -- Minnesota. from old catalog
• Holidays -- New Mexico
• Holidays -- North Carolina
• Holidays -- Norway
• Holidays -- Panama
• Holidays -- Peru
• Holidays -- Philippines
• Holidays -- Poetry
• Holidays -- Québec (Province)
• Holidays -- Russia
• Holidays -- Serbia and Montenegro
• Holidays -- Songs and music
• Holidays -- Southwest, New
• Holidays -- Soviet Union
• Holidays -- Spain
• Holidays -- Sweden
• Holidays -- Switzerland
• Holidays -- Thailand
• Holidays -- Ukraine
• Holidays -- United States
• Holidays -- Visual aids
• Holidays -- Washington (D.C.)
• April Fools' Day
• Arbor Day
• Armistice Day
• Bird Day
• Chinese New Year
• Christmas
• Columbus Day
• Empire Day
• Fasts and feasts -- Judaism
• Flag Day
• John Marshall Day
• John the Baptist's Day
• Labor Day
• May Day
• May Day (Labor holiday)
• Memorial Day
• Mother's Day
• New Year
• Pan American Day
• Patriots' Day
• Peace Day
• Saint Cecilia's Day
• Saint George's Day
• Saint Martin's Day
• Saint Michael's Day
• Saint Nicholas' Day
• Saint Patrick's Day
• Schools -- Exercises and recreations
• Thanksgiving Day
• Valentine's Day
• Weekly rest-day
• World Health Day

• Legal holidays
• National holidays

• Holiday Facts and Fancies: Full Yet Simple Explanations of the American Holidays (Boston et al.: Educational Pub. Co., c1910), by Clara Janetta Fort Denton
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• Dog and Duck (New York: A. A. Knopf, 1924), by Arthur Machen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Observations on the Popular Antiquities of Great Britain (new edition, in 3 volumes; London: H. G. Bohn, 1849), by John Brand and Henry Ellis, contrib. by J. O. Halliwell-Phillipps (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mr. Kris Kringle; a Christmas tale (G. W. Jacobs & co., 1904), by S. Weir Mitchell and Clyde O. DeLand (page images at HathiTrust)
• The book of days, a miscellany of popular antiquities in connection with the calendar, including anecdote, biography, & history, curiosities of literature and oddities of human life and character. (J. B. Lippincott company, 1914), by Robert Chambers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Observations on popular antiquities chiefly illustrating the origin of our vulgar customs, ceremonies, and supersititions. (Chatto and Windus, 1877), by John Brand and Henry Ellis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Anniversaries and holidays, a calendar of days and how to observe them (American Library Association, 1928), by Mary Emogene Hazeltine and American Library Association (page images at HathiTrust)
• The book of festivals (The Womans press, 1937), by Dorothy Gladys Spicer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rest days : a study in early law and morality (Macmillan, 1916), by Hutton Webster (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bank and public holidays throughout the world. (Guaranty trust company of New York, 1900), by Guaranty Trust Company of New York (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fêtes et corvées (P.G. Rey, 1898), by Pamphile Lemay (page images at HathiTrust)
• Anniversaries and holidays, a calendar of days and how to observe them (American library association, 1944), by Mary Emogene Hazeltine, Judith Katrina Sollenberger, and American Library Association (page images at HathiTrust)
• Observations on popular antiquities : including the whole of Mr. Bourne's Antiquitates vulgares, with addenda to every chapter of that work: as also an appendix containing such articles on the subject as have been omitted by that author (Printed for William Baynes, sold also by W. Blackwood, Edinburgh, 1810), by John Brand and Henry Bourne (page images at HathiTrust)
• El Paso, Texas Selective Traffic Enforcement Program. Final report. (1976), by T. McEwen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Holiday effect on traffic fatalities. Technical report. (1987), by Robert Arnold and Ezio C. Cerrelli (page images at HathiTrust)
• Special day pageants for little people (A.S. Barnes and Company, 1927), by Marion Kennedy and Katharine Isabel Bemis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Popular antiquities of Great Britain, comprising notices of the moveable and immoveable feasts, customs, superstitions and amusements past and present. (J. R. Smith, 1870), by John Brand and William Carew Hazlitt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Svi͡atochnai͡a khristomatīi͡a : literaturno-myzykalʹno-ėtnograficheskīĭ sbornik dli͡a semʹi i shkoly (Sinoidalʹnai͡a tip., 1903), by E. Shvidchenko (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Patriotic programs for patriotic days (Walter H. Baker Company, 1926), by Evelyn Hoxie (page images at HathiTrust)
• Spring and summer school celebrations : exercises, recitations, pantomimes, tableaux, drills, songs, for Easter, Arbor Day, Memorial Day, May Day, Fourth of July, and closing day (Penn Pub. Co., 1913), by Alice Maude Kellogg (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bank and public holidays throughout the world, 1921. (Guaranty trust company of New York, 1920), by Guaranty Trust Company of New York (page images at HathiTrust)
• The book of holidays, what--when--where--why (The Times-Mirror Company, 1926), by Harry Spencer Stuff (page images at HathiTrust)
• Festival tales (Cassell, Petter & Galpin, 1878), by John Francis Waller (page images at HathiTrust)
• Observations on popular antiquities : including the whole of Mr. Bourne's Antiquitates vulgares, with addenda to every chapter of that work: as also an appendix containing such articles on the subject as have been omitted by that author. (Printed for Vernor, Hood and Sharpe ..., James Cundee ..., and W. Baynes ..., 1810), by John Brand (page images at HathiTrust)
• Brand's Popular antiquities of Great Britain : Faiths and folklore; a dictionary of national beliefs, superstitions and popular customs, past and current, with their classical and foreign analogues, described and illustrated. Forming a new ed. of "The popular antiquities of Great Britain" (Reeves and Turner, 1905), by John Brand, William Carew Hazlitt, and Henry Ellis (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Colonial holidays; being a collection of contemporary accounts of holiday celebrations in colonial times (Doubleday, Page & co., 1910), by Walter Tittle (page images at HathiTrust)
• Twelfth-night at the Century club, January 6, 1858. (D. Appleton & Company, 1858), by Century Association (New York, N.Y.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The book of days : a miscellany of popular antiquities in connection with the calendar, including anecdote, biography & history, curiosities of literature, and oddities of human life and character (W. & R. Chambers, 1869), by Robert Chambers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Observations on the popular antiquities of Great Britain: chiefly illustrating the origin of our vulgar and provincial customs, ceremonies, and superstitions. (G. Bell and sons, 1873), by John Brand and Henry Ellis (page images at HathiTrust)
• The book of days; a miscellany of popular antiquities in connection with the calendar, including anecdote, biography & history, curiosities of literature, and oddities of human life and character. (W. & R. Chambers, 1888), by Robert Chambers (page images at HathiTrust)
• The book of days; a miscellany of popular antiquities in connection with the calendar, including anecdote, biography, and history, curiosities of literature and oddities of human life and character. (W. & R. Chambers, 1869), by Robert Chambers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Narodni slavonski obicaji. (Kod F. Suppanam, 1846), by Luka Ilić (page images at HathiTrust)
• Observatins on popular antiquities: chiefly illustrating the origin of our vulgar customs, ceremonies, and superstitions. (printed for F. C. and J. Rivington, 1813), by John Brand and Henry Ellis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Festpostille und Festchronik; Aufsätze und Vorträge über Ursprung, Entwicklung und Bedeutung aller Feste, Feier- und Heiligentage des Jahres, nebst Erklärungen der damit verbundenen Sagen, Sitten und Gebräuche. (C. Ulsohöfer, 1907), by Johann Heinrich Albers (page images at HathiTrust)
• The days we celebrate; a collection of original dialogues, recitations, entertainments and other pieces for holidays and special occasions; suitable for all ages (T. S. Denison, 1904), by Marie Irish (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bank and public holidays throughout the world (Guaranty trust company of New York, 1918), by Guaranty Trust Company of New York (page images at HathiTrust)
• Outstanding days (The Union press, 1920), by Cheesman Abiah Herrick (page images at HathiTrust)
• Holidays, and the reasons why they are observed. (Presbyterian Board of Publication, 1860), by Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Publication (page images at HathiTrust)
• Anniversaries and holidays : a calendar of days and how to observe them (American Library Association, 1944), by Mary Emogene Hazeltine, Judith Katrina Sollenberger, and American Library Association (page images at HathiTrust)
• The holiday book (D. McKay, 1952), by Marguerite Kohl and Frederica Young (page images at HathiTrust)
• Observations on popular antiquities : chiefly illustrating the origin of our vulgar customs, ceremonies, and supersititions (Charles Knight and Co., 1841), by John Brand and Henry Ellis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Russkīĭ narod, ego obychi, obri︠a︡dy, predanīia︡︠, suevie︡︠rīia︡︠ i poėzīia︡︠ (Izd. knigoprodavts︡︠a M. Berezina, 1880), by M. Zabylin (page images at HathiTrust)
• The holidays: Christmas, Easter, and Whitsuntide; together with the May-day, Midsummer, and harvest-home festivals. (H. B. Nims and company, 1876), by Nathan Boughton Warren (page images at HathiTrust)
• Good stories for great holidays, arranged for story-telling and reading aloud and for the children's own reading (Houghton Mifflin Company, 1914), by Frances Jenkins Olcott (page images at HathiTrust)
• Observations on the popular antiquities of Great Britain: chiefly illustrating the origin of our vulgar and provincial customs, ceremonies, and superstitions. (H. G. Bohn, 1849), by John Brand, J. O. Halliwell-Phillipps, and Henry Ellis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Observations on the popular antiquities of Great Britain: chiefly illustrating the origin of our vulgar and provincial customs, ceremonies, and superstitions. (H. G. Bohn., 1848), by John Brand, J. O. Halliwell-Phillipps, and Henry Ellis (page images at HathiTrust)
• The book of days; a miscellany of popular antiquities in connection with the calendar, including anecdote, biography, & history, curiosities of literature and oddities of huma life and character. (W. & R. Chambers, 1878), by Robert Chambers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Wochen- und Monatsnamen und die Festtage und ihre Bedeutung. ([s.n.], 1920), by Edmund von Wecus (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Holiday administration overseas : improvement needed to achieve more equitable treatment of employees, multiagency : report to the Congress (U.S. General Accounting Office, 1975), by United States General Accounting Office (page images at HathiTrust)
• The autumn holidays of a country parson. (Fields, Osgood, 1869), by Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd (page images at HathiTrust)
• Scenes of the olden times. (T. Nelson and Sons, 1869), by W. H. Davenport Adams (page images at HathiTrust)
• The holidays: Christmas, Easter, and Whitsuntide : their social festivities, customs, and carols (Hurd and Houghton, 1868), by Nathan Boughton Warren and Felix Octavius Carr Darley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Manners : or, Happy homes and good society all the year round (J. E. Tilton, 1868), by Sarah Josepha Buell Hale (page images at HathiTrust)
• The book of days. A miscellany of popular antiquities in connection with the calendar, including anecdote, biography, & history, curiosities of literature and oddities of human life and character. (W. & R. Chambers, 1864), by Robert Chambers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rest days; the Christian Sunday, the Jewish Sabbath, and their historical and anthropological prototypes (Macmillan Co., 1916), by Hutton Webster (page images at HathiTrust)
• Holy-days and holidays : a treasury of historical material, sermons in full and in brief, suggestive thoughts, and poetry, relating to holy days and holidays (Funk & Wagnalls, 1902), by Edward Mark Deems (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chambers's book of days, a miscellany of popular antiquities in connection with the calendar, including anecdote, biography & history, curiosities of literature and oddities of human life and character. (W. & R. Chambers, 1873), by Robert Chambers (page images at HathiTrust)
• The book of days; a miscellany of popular antiquities in connection with the calendar, including anecdote, biography & history, curiosities of literature, and oddities of human life and character. (W. & R. Chambers, 1881), by Robert Chambers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bank and public holidays throughout the world. (Morgan Guaranty Trust Co. of New York., 1918), by Guaranty Trust Company of New York and Morgan Guaranty Trust Company of New York (page images at HathiTrust)
• Deutsche Feste und Volksbräuche (B.G. Teubner, 1916), by Eugen Fehrle (page images at HathiTrust)
• A book of holidays : 1915-1916. (State of Colorado, Dept. of Public Instruction, 1915), by Colorado. Department of Public Instruction (page images at HathiTrust)
• Observations on popular antiquities, including the whole of Mr. Bourne's Antiquitates vulgares, with addenda to every chapter of that work (Printed for W. Baynes, 1810), by John Brand (page images at HathiTrust)
• Anniversary leaves (American Baptist Publication Society, 1879), by M. G. Kennedy (page images at HathiTrust)
• Toyon; a book of holiday recitations for the children of the school, the home, and the church. (The Whitaker & Ray company, 1899), by Allie M. Felker (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Toyon; a book of holiday recitations for the children of the school, the home and the church (The Whitaker and Ray company (incorporated), 1902), by Allie M. Felker (page images at HathiTrust)
• Good citizenship (H. Altemus, 1908), by Grover Cleveland and Henry Altemus Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Special plays for special days (Eldridge Entertainment House, 1920), by Cecil Jane Richmond (page images at HathiTrust)
• Observations on popular antiquities chiefly illustrating the origin of our vulgar customs, ceremonies, and supersititions. (Chatto and Windus, 1900), by John Brand and Henry Ellis (page images at HathiTrust)
• How to celebrate Washington's birthday in th schoolroom. Helps for the primary, grammar, and high school. (E.L. Kellogg & co., 1894), by Alice Maude Kellogg (page images at HathiTrust)
• Populäre Festpostille : Aufsätze und Vorträge über Ursprung, Entwicklung und Bedeutung sämtlicher Feste, Feier- und Heiligentage des Jahres nebst Erklärung der damit verbundenen Sagen, Sitten und Gebräuche (G. Lang ;, 1891), by J. H. Albers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rest days; a sociological study (1911), by Hutton Webster (page images at HathiTrust)
• Suggestive programs for special day exercises (The Department, 1913), by Nebraska. Department of Public Instruction and James E. Delzell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Monographs on anniversaries and festivals [!]. (Free public library, 1913), by Free Public Library of Jersey City and Edmund Walter Miller (page images at HathiTrust)
• Twelfth-night at the Century club, MDCCCLIX. ([Century Association], 1859), by Century Association (New York, N.Y.) and Seymour B. Durst (page images at HathiTrust)
• The book of festivals (Womans Press, 1947), by Dorothy Gladys Spicer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Kurze nachricht von der entstehung und feyer der christlichen sonn- und festtage (W. Starke, 1819), by Johann Wilhelm Schwarz (page images at HathiTrust)
• Unterricht über den ursprung und die benennung aller sonn = fest- und anderer tage durchs ganze jahr; nebst beschreibung der an den- selben üblichen gebräuche und gervohnheiten ... (Gebrüder Schumann, 1817), by J. G. Böhme (page images at HathiTrust)
• Holidays and in-between times, new ideas in entertainment. (Walter H. Baker company, 1923), by Lettie Cook Van Derveer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Stories of the world's holidays (Milton Bradley Company, 1923), by Grace Humphrey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Observations on the popular antiquities of Great Britain. (G. Bell and sons, 1900), by John Brand and Henry Ellis (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Special days, weeks and months in 1951 (Washington [D.C.] : U.S. G.P.O., 1950., 1950), by Thomas Jefferson Davis and United States. Department of Commerce (page images at HathiTrust)
• Developing American ideals in the primary grades. (San Diego, Calif., 1954), by San Diego City Schools and Lilia Gonzalez (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Holidays and festivals, Central America and Panama. (Travel Division, Pan American Union, 1943), by Pan American Union. Travel Division (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Holidays and festivals in Mexico. (Columbia University Libraries, 1943), by Pan American Union. Travel Division (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• National costumes of the Slavic peoples, drawings (The Womans press, 1920), by Young Women's Christian Association of the U.S.A. Bureau of Pageantry and the Drama, Esther Peck, and Margaret Hubbard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Observations on popular antiquities : chiefly illustrating the origin of our vulgar customs, ceremonies, and superstitions (Chatto and Windus, 1913), by John Brand and Henry Ellis (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Customs and holidays around the world (Fleet Publishing Corp., 1962), by Lavinia Dobler (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The book of days, a miscellany of popular antiquities in connection with the calendar (W. & R. Chambers;, 1914), by Robert Chambers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Diamond jubilee grand celebration ([Richmond County Citizens' Association], 1927), by Richmond County Citizens' Association (Québec) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Let's celebrate a holiday! [Sources of free materials on holidays, festivals, and special occasions]. (Riverside, Calif., 1956), by Bruce Miller (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Obshcherusskīĭ dnevnik t︠s︡erkovnykh, narodnykh, semeĭnykh prazdnikov i khozi︠a︡ĭstvennykh zani︠a︡tīĭ, primi︠e︡t i gadanīĭ. (Tipom Instituta stavropigīĭskogo, 1866), by Antoniĭ Semenovich Petrushevich (page images at HathiTrust)
• Our holidays, retold from St. Nicholas (Century, 1905) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Holidays celebrated in countries of the Far East. ([Washington, DC], 1951), by United States. Department of State. Division of Research for Far East (page images at HathiTrust)
• Good citizenship, by Grover Cleveland (Gutenberg ebook)
• Christmas, the Christians grand feast:: its original, growth, and observation, also of Easter, Whitsontide, and other holydayes modestly discussed and determined. Also the beginning of the yeare, and other things observable. Where also among other learned men, you have the judgment of those eminent men; Josephus Scaliger, Rodulphus Hospinian, Matthæus Beroaldus, Joh. Causabon, Doct. Fulk, M. Cartwright, Alsted, Hugh Broughton, Master Mead. / By Thomas Mocket; sometimes of Queens Colledge in Cambridge, and Mr. of Arts in both the Universities; and now pastor of Gildeston in Hartfordshire. Novemb. 26, 1650. Imprimatur, Edm. Calamy. (London : Printed for Richard Wodenoth at the Star under Peters Church in Cornhill, 1651), by Thomas Mocket, Joseph Juste Scaliger, Rudolf Hospinian, Matthieu Beroald, William Fulke, Johann Heinrich Alsted, Hugh Broughton, Thomas Cartwright, Joseph Mede, and Isaac Casaubon (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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