27th Infantry Division march through gate. Troops on horseback march up 5th Avenue. Crowd assembled.
27th Infantry Division march up 5th Avenue. Men march with flags and followed by military band and troops. Troops pass through gate and large crowd.
27th Infantry Division marching in fields. Troops decorated by U.S. Army General. Crowd assembled at the event. Troops marching in fields.
Travelers make a booking for travel in the R.M.S. Queen Mary ocean liner inside the booking office of Thomas Cook & Son’s travel agency. Man fills up a form while a couple view brochure. A sign reads “Bookings Here R.M.S. Queen Mary”. Hand filling up a form. A couple speaks to the travel agent. Clients booking trips through travel agents in desks. Man shakes hands with clients. Travel agents fill up forms, answer phone calls and speak to clients inside the office.
Wintertime View, after snowfall, with snow banks along Fifth Avenue in New York City. Taxis and buses moving on the avenue. Door mat reads:"587 Thos. Cook & Son." Pedestrians in winter coats and hats. People enter and come out of door marked 'American Express Company'. Men standing under sign 'Thos. Cook and Son Wagons-Lits Inc.'. People entering travel office of 'Thos. Cook and Son'. Empire State Building visible in mist in background.
Crowds in New York City celebrate end of World War 1 near time of Armistice. View from above of crowds on 5th Avenue, in Manhattan, gathered at Madison Square, around the Altar of Liberty designed by architect Thomas Hastings, to honor homecoming American soldiers. Camera pans across celebrants waving hats, hands, and flags. Scene shifts to the financial district, and the George Washington Statue at Federal Hall, Wall Street, which has been draped with American flag and signs reading: "Liberty cannot die." A clergyman standing below the statue, paces back and forth. Closeup of a bearded Jewish man, wrapped in a Yiddish newspaper announcing the armistice. He is blowing a horn and has an American flag and a blue and white Jewish flag fastened at his back. Camera pans over young women dressed in costumes as: soldiers, nurses, drum majorettes, the statue of liberty, red cross workers, and Uncle Sam. View shifts to an effigy of the German Kaiser suspended high above the street, between two buildings. Men ride on the outside of a car. One "chokes" an small effigy of the Kaiser while another pummels it. Another crowd raises an effigy of the Kaiser aloft holding a white flag of surrender. A man wearing a grotesque mask of the Kaiser, with Kammerad written across the forehead. He holds an American flag. Vehicles, including a horse-drawn carriage, move along a street surrounded by vast crowds. Confetti flies through the air. Jubilant crowd wave newspapers with headline: Germany Surrenders. A double-decker bus seen in background.
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