Armistice celebrations in New York City. Large smiling and jubilant crowd gathers on roads and sidewalks. Ticker tape and ribbons float in air down from skyscrapers and buildings. Cars and trucks on the road. The Flag of United States on a building. Happy, cheering, raucous crowd. Men in crowd tip their hats. Clock on road shows time as 35 minutes past 2. Cars on road. People stand beside roads and cheer.
King George V and Queen Mary of England visit American soldier convalescents at American Red Cross hospital in Dartford, Kent, England, near the end of World War I. King and Queen arrive at hospital. Colonel H.E. Fiske, officers and nurses receive them. King stands past the bed of a patient, touches his leg and talks to him. Queen talks to the nurse. Wounded, recovering soldiers and their attendants stand and talk. World War 1 soldier patients stand and wave. Nurses stand and talk. King and Queen accompanied with others climb down stairs. Queen shakes hands with nurse and an officer. King shakes hands with the officer.
Following the armistice of World War I, President Woodrow Wilson and his party depart Hoboken New Jersey bound for the Paris Peace Conference. Band on a transport pier near building marked "Pier 5 U.S. Army Transport Service" at Hoboken, New Jersey port. Converted liner USS George Washington seen with sailors and dignitaries aboard, leaving port. Sign "Naval Transport George Washington" seen briefly on the ship. People stand on ship and on shore waving. A tugboat at the port with many people aboard bidding farewell to the President and his party. Steam rises from stack of USS George Washington. President Woodrow Wilson stands on the ship talking to others. USS George Washington underway in the harbor.
USS George Washington departs from Hoboken, New Jersey bound for the Paris Peace Conference at end of World War 1, with President Woodrow Wilson and his party on board. Smoke rises from stacks of the ship. Hoboken buildings and skyline in the background as seen from ship on the water. Silhouette of ship. A zeppelin airship (presumably of the U.S. Navy) in the sky over the port. It passes near the USS George Washington. A biplane aircraft in the sky passes by ship. A barge with stripes painted across entire exterior. Barge, airship and airplane in the sky seen. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
Liner USS George Washington on the Atlantic Ocean after its departure from Hoboken, New Jersey, bound for the Paris Peace Conference after World War 1. One of the ship's officers looks through binoculars. Two ships in the background (one is likely the USS Pennsylvania BB-38 which accompanied the flotilla). President Woodrow Wilson looks through binoculars. Standing behind him is Rear Admiral Cary Grayson, who was also the President's physician, Two women talk to a man on ship. John W Davis looks through binoculars, a woman stands beside him. The woman looks through binoculars. Robert Lansing, U.S. Secretary of State stands on ship wearing a hat and bowtie and looks around. French Ambassador Jean Aderian Antoine Jules Jusserand sits and talks with two women. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
A U.S. Army Brigadier General poses at the railing of the USS George Washington, en route to the Paris Peace Conference with President Woodrow Wilson and his delegation aboard. He is later seen chatting with other passengers, including several ladies. A number of views of passengers posing and enjoying one another's company. Escorting U.S. Navy destroyers occasionally seen in distance. Admiral Harry Shepard Knapp, U.S. Navy is seen leaning against a railing and conversing with another Navy officer. Three men in traditional flat caps talking and laughing together. Groups of men in flat caps standing and talking together. One is smoking a cigar. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
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