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.
Pages of a book showing pictures of telephone Transmitter and Receiver exhibited in Centennial Exposition at Philadelphia in 1876. Picture of Dom Pedro, Emperor of Brazil. Dramatization: Alexander Graham Bell greeting Dom Pedro at International Centennial of 1876 in Philadelphia. Actors playing Bell, Pedro and other people walk to see the demonstration. Bell speaks on mouthpiece and Pedro trying to hear Bell's word on receiver. Pedro is surprised and makes other hear the words on receiver. People congratulate Bell.
Armistice celebrations in Washington, DC, at end of World War 1. Automobiles are seen driving along Pennsylvania Avenue. Crowds line the sidewalks. The White Palace Lunch restaurant is seen in the background. An open truck overflowing with revelers drives slowly along the street. View from a vehicle of the Willard Hotel and U.S. Treasury Building at end of this section of Pennsylvania Avenue. Scenes from vehicle of people celebrating on the sidewalks. Some carrying a box labeled "Kaiser's Coffin." American soldiers in uniform interspersed among the crowds. A woman riding on the hood of one moving car, waving an American flag. Sailors walking beside the car. An African American man strutting along tram tracks leading a group of uniformed soldiers in a cheerful parade snaking between moving street cars. View from moving vehicle of crowds in front of the Treasury Building, and blowing horns and celebrating in front of the White House. Celebrating crowd filling Lafayette Park across from the White House. Statue of Lafayette in the park. The White House seen across the street from the park. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
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. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
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