Fourth Liberty Loan Drive activities in New York City during World War 1. Crowd lines sidewalks to watch as a New York City Policemen's brass band leads a parade along an avenue. A sign on building, above the spectators reads: "Buy Bonds to Arm Armies." A color guard of policemen follows the band, and behind them, a group of mounted policemen moving two-by-two, ahead of a formation of policemen. Scene changes to a street filled with people. Some hold flags and signs. A crowd hangs the Kaiser in effigy outside the Woolworth Building, at 233 Broadway ( between Park Place and Barclay Street in Lower Manhattan, opposite City Hall). Sign on the building reads: "Fight Buy Bonds." Above, a dozen business men watch the events from the window of the Irving National Bank. Gate of the first floor Rathskeller is seen at sidewalk level. Soon, another effigy of the Kaiser is seen swinging from a rope. Both dangle from the third floor of the Woolworth Building. Scene changes to a brass band playing in the street. Workmen are seen on the marquee of a building being renovated. A sailor stands in their midst giving a speech. The workmen applaud. The sailor gives an impassioned call for those below to buy Liberty Bonds. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
End of World War I. A Great Victory Parade in New York, United States. Soldiers march down Fifth Avenue as large crowd looks on. The Arch at Washington Square with balloons flying in the air held down by decorative pillars erected in the square. A lone man climbs on the Washington Square Arch. Spectators jam the sidewalks. Large crowd fills steps of the New York Public Library.
Early political life of Franklin D Roosevelt. After becoming the Governor of New York, Franklin D Roosevelt along with his mother Sara Ann Delano Roosevelt,attended the New York State Fair,riding in an open car. A large number of people gather to greet them. Roosevelt eats a meal, with officials, at an outdoor restaurant.
A ticker tape parade in New York City honors Jesse Owens for his outstanding performance at the Berlin Olympics and welcomes American olympians back home. The New York City Police band plays as the parade moves past a large crowd along the street. Men in cars move down a street which has been narrowed by ongoing road construction work. Trolley tracks are evident in some parts of street.
American Olympians return from the Berlin Olympics. They are welcomed in New York, United States. Filmed from a building high above the street, people look down from windows at a ticker tape parade in New York City. Motorcade moves past a large crowd on side walks. People look down from balcony of a building. A highly crowded street during the parade. Road construction in center of street restricts path for vehicles.A campaign banner for Republican Presidential candidate Alf Landon is stretched high above and across the street, between tall buildings.
The U.S. Presidential Yacht, USS Mayflower (PY-1), carrying Secretary of the Navy,Josephus Daniels, makes its way between U.S. warships in the Port of New York during the Naval Fleet Review on Christmas Day, 1918, at the end of World War 2. A 4-stacker destroyer is seen briefly, to port side of the Mayflower. Later she is seen passing New York City piers, along the shoreline. The scene shifts to the USS Pennsylvania (BB-38), with her crew lining the deck and an upper triple turret turned to port. Two launches head toward a gangplank on her portside. View from boat passing the USS Pennsylvania's bow and along her starboard side.
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