Shaking hands with members of the congregation after Easter services at an Episcopal Church, South Side of Chicago, Illinois

Church services are over on Easter Sunday an an Episcopal Church on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois

Townspeople going home after Easter Sunday Church services. Sugar Hill, near Franconia, New Hampshire

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Easter Sunday. Granger, Texas

Easter Sunday from Chicago to NH to TX 1938-40

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Buffalo, New York. Housewife in the Polish community preparing her Easter feast for blessing by the priest on the Saturday before Easter. For Poles, Easter is a day of church going feasting and visiting. This woman spent a whole day preparing the food and the priest will visit her home and bless it

Selling Easter lilies on sidewalk on Easter morning, South Side of Chicago, Illinois

Selling Easter lilies on sidewalk on Easter morning, South Side of Chicago, Illinois

San Augustine, Texas. Children having an Easter egg hunt on the school grounds on the last day of school before Easter vacation

Marian Anderson mural dedicated. Marian Anderson, noted contralto, sings “The Star Spangled Banner” at the dedication of a mural commemorating her free public concert on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on Easter Sunday, 1939. The dedication was held in the Department of Interior Auditorium before a distinguished audience on January 6, 1943. Miss Anderson is holding a bouquet of roses presented to her by Negro high school cadets who served as ushers at the ceremony. Secretary of Interior Ickes accepted the mural for the government

Adolescent boy dressed up for the Easter parade, Chicago, Illinois

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Photos from the Library of Congress

Easter in the 1940s

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