Crowds fill streets celebrating Armistice ending World War 1. Street cars move through the crowds. Many people wave American flags. Mounted police maintain order. Crowd filling space in front of S.S. Kresge Company 5&10 cents Store. Large American flags hang from front of the Central Savings Bank, at 14th Street and 4th Avenue (Union Square). People gather around a large monument displaying many figures. A group of people realize they are being photographed and face the camera smiling. One man lifts up a small boy dressed in soldier uniform, holding a flag and saluting. Several men carry a wood slab with effigy of defeated Hun on it. Scene shifts to large open area, where crowd is gathered around a multistory copy of the Statue of Liberty. A group of women in white dresses (possibly nurses) stand in front of a seated Army brass band. Scene shifts back to Union Square, again with crowd around the large monument and American flags draped over windows of the Central Savings Bank. Trick photography creates ethereal image of statue of liberty in the scene. Next, lines of people with banners and flags move near area of trolley cars. Another group gathers near camera, as mounted policeman moves behind them. Trinity Church steeple can be seen in far background. Several men in blackface makeup carry a coffin containing detritus of war. View from building overlooking avenue filled with people. American flags fly from building window sills. A flag displaying "104" (104th Regiment?) and numerous stars, hangs from one window. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
View of nighttime fireworks during Third Liberty Bond Drive in World War 1. Two persons paste posters on buildings. Posters reads 'The Hun-his Mark', 'Blot it Out' with 'Liberty Bonds'. Another poster reads 'Lend-the way they fight, Buy Liberty Bonds to your Utmost'. Nurses in white uniforms parade, carrying American flags, in lower Manhattan, New York City. A military officer speaks to crowd from the front of the Subtreasury Building on Wall Street. An Army military band seated on the steps, plays for an assembled crowd. Former President, Theodore Roosevelt is seen waving his hat from a balcony overlooking the scene. Scene shifts to Washington, DC, where Hollywood movie star, Douglas Fairbanks, stands above the crowd, encouraging them to buy Liberty Bonds. His wife, Mary Pickford, wearing a large corsage of flowers, also stands above the crowd, appealing for them to buy bonds. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)