Music and dancing during a Ratha Yatra, or "Chariot Festival". The procession marks the climax of the annual nine-day festival called Sri Ganesh Chaturthi, held to celebrate the elephant-headed Hindu deity, Ganesh, the primary god worshiped at The Hindu Temple Society of North America (also called the Ganesh Temple). At the center of the procession is a large shrine housing a sculpture of the elephant-headed Hindu god. Devotees make offerings of fruit and flowers that the priests riding atop the 16-foot long silver carriage, called a ratha, bless and send back into the crowd to be shared. Devotees believe that the energy created by their week of chanting, offerings and the festivities in the streets replenish the powers of the holy statue and ready it for another year of worship in the temple.

Hindu devotees make their way through the streets during a Ratha Yatra, or "Chariot Festival". The procession marks the climax of the annual nine-day festival called Sri Ganesh Chaturthi, held to celebrate the elephant-headed Hindu deity, Ganesh, the primary god worshiped at The Hindu Temple Society of North America (also called the Ganesh Temple). At the center of the procession is a large shrine housing a sculpture of the elephant-headed Hindu god. Devotees make offerings of fruit and flowers that the priests riding atop the 16-foot long silver carriage, called a Ratha, bless and send back into the crowd to be shared.

Queens: Holly Avenue - Robinson Street Holly Avenue, north side, from Robinson to Union Streets, showing Public School No. 24. This structure replaced an old one and a half-story frame schoolhouse. Board of Education of the City of New York about 1931

Queens: Kissena Boulevard - 45th Avenue Kisses Blvd., west side, between 45th and Geranium Aves., showing the home of Mrs. Van Bergen in 1873. In 1909 it was owned by Annette Streiss. January 1923 Eugene L. Armbruster Collection

Peter Van Bergen Residence Peter Van Bergen residence. hand written on back of print: Peter Van Bergen Res sw cor Jamaica Ave and Franconia Ave Flushing 1923

Street of All Nations Stand, Flushing Hospital Carnival and Circus Street of All Nations stand, Flushing Hospital Carnival and Circus. The event was held June 17-19, 1909.; hand written on back of print: Flushing Hospital Fair + Carnival Eugene T. Nichols, Photographer; stamp on back of print: MR. ALLEN J. BOZEMAN P.O. BOX 151 COLLEGE POINT, N.Y. 11356

Graham Residence Residence of one of the sons of James Varnum Graham. hand written on back of print: J.V. Graham's sons Res sw cor Jamaica Ave and Elder Ave Flushing 1923

Queens: Cherry Avenue - Kissena Boulevard 140-14 Cherry Avenue, just east of the S.E. corner of Kissena Boulevard, showing one of a large group of small homes erected here recently. About 1927