Historic Crowd Gatherings

Vintage photographs capturing large crowds at significant events, showcasing diverse people and communal activities in historical contexts.

Vintage Photograph. Teenagers enjoying a 1950s dance party in a vintage gym setting.

Anefo photo collection. House of Representatives. Moods O.A. Amelisweerd and ammo transport. Leaves are thrown off public stands. March 9, 1982

Anefo photo collection. Party in Suriname i.v.m. independence; Festive Surinamese on truck. November 30, 1975. Suriname

Anefo photo collection. Peace demonstration The Hague, 550,000 people demonstrate O.M. Against Placement Cross Rakette. Princess Irene is a speech in the Zuiderpark. October 29, 1983. The Hague, South Holland

Anefo photo collection. Prince Bernhard is present at the 150th anniversary of the Inodorus Niemeyer in Groningen. Prince Bernhard with the headdress at an Indian. June 20, 1969. Groningen (Prov), Groningen (city)

REFUGIADOS ESPAÑOLES EN EL EXILIO. Location: FUNDACION PABLO IGLESIAS. MADRID. SPAIN.

Crowds of Norwegians gather in Oslo; to celebrate the liberation of Norway after World War Two

Anefo photo collection. In Scheveningen the landing and entry of Prince Willem Frederik commemorated. Arrival of Prince Willem Frederik the beach in Scheveningen 1813-1963. November 30, 1963. Scheveningen, South Holland

Young Chinese and Japanese Children in Junior Division American Red Cross Parade, Honolulu, Hawaii, American National Red Cross Collection, 1919

Elsevier photo collection. announcement birth baby Princess Beatrix, people Dam Square Amsterdam. Provo's. demonstrating Provo arrested. April 27, 1967. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Marchers carrying labor union banners, including one reading 'Corrugated Local RWDSU District 65, AFL-CIO' during the March on Washington, August 28, 1963. Photo by Marion S Trikosko

Anefo photo collection. Premier's working visit to a meeting center for Hindustani Surinamese in The Hague. The prime minister runs through the neighborhood with a wreath. September 11, 1980. The Hague, South Holland

In protest (378)

The lynching of African Americans, Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith, Marion, Indiana, 1930

Three lynched African American men, two hanging from a post, and a third lying on the ground in Duluth, Minnesota, June 15, 1920. The bodies of Elias Clayton, Elmer Jackson, and Isaac McGhie, are surrounded by some of the vigilante white mob of thousands. Their supposed 'victim' showed no medical evidence of the suspected rape (BSLOC_2020_2_99)

Anefo photo collection. Yvonne van Gennip wipes Grote Markt Haarlem TV program "betting that". March 22, 1988. Haarlem, Noord-Holland

Group of African-American Teenagers hanging out on Sidewalk, White Plains, Georgia, USA, Jack Delano, U.S. Farm Security Administration, U.S. Office of War Information Photograph Collection, June 1941

Open Housing demonstrators attacked in Chicago. Civil Rights marchers duck to avoid flying rocks and firecrackers hurled at them while they protested housing practices of real estate offices in an all white neighborhood. Aug. 16, 1966.

Anefo photo collection. MetRodebat in city council in Amsterdam; Council members enter town hall via bicycle shed. November 6, 1974. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Anefo photo collection. The staff of Ford together in the canteen for a meeting. January 16, 1981. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Anefo photo collection. Meeting of the "Women for Peace" at the Ravensbrück monument in Amsterdam in the context of international women's day. March 8, 1982. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Planting an Adolf Hitler oak on the occasion of the birthday Ad.Hitl. Hoffmann Photographs 1933 Adolf Hitler's official photographer, and a Nazi politician and publisher, who was a member of Hitler's intimate circle.

The Queen In Malta Tremendous Welcome From 14,000 Children.H. M, The Queen and H.R.H. The Duke of Edinburgh, standing up in a Land Rover, smile and wave in acknowledgment, as 14,000 children cheer lustily, to the accompaniment of fluttering Union Jacks, as they welcome the Royal Couple to a School childrens' Rally at Floriana, Malta, G. C. today. May 3, 1954. (Photo by Fox Photos).

Trip to New York City: International Ladies Garment Workers Union (ILGWU) Housing Project, 1:00PM. Mayor of New York City, Robert F. Wagner, Jr. (at lectern), speaks at the dedication of the Penn Station South Cooperative Houses, a cooperative housing project of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union (ILGWU); President John F. Kennedy (left of lectern, back to camera) attends. Also pictured: President of the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO), George Meany; President of the ILGWU, David Dubinsky; White House Secret Service agent, Gerald A. Jerry Behn. New York City, New York.

Participants in Selma to Montgomery Civil Rights March resting on Wall, Alabama, USA, Peter Pettus, March 1965

CZE, Czech Republic, Prague: CSSR, Country and People. Everyday life in a country under communist rule. Prague 01.05.1981.1st May Demonstration, Europe

Anefo photo collection. Valkenburger Schutters in Amsterdam. May 26, 1967. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Anefo photo collection. The Queen visits the exhibition "Weird Democracy". April 4, 1946

Anefo photo collection. Ajax supporters for Ajax against Benfica leave by train from Central Station, Amsterdam to Paris. March 4, 1969. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Commuters boarding a Penn Central train in Scarsdale, New York, circa 1976. Most of the commuters are white and male, while women number roughly 1 in 5 of the commuting workforce shown here.

Anefo photo collection. School children commemoration Eastern cemetery Amsterdam. 4, 1987. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Woman suffrage parade, May 1914.

Crowd gathered on Street to see Soviet Leader Nikita Khrushchev, Man holding Sign "The only Good Communist is a Dead Communist", Des Moines, Iowa, USA, photograph by Thomas J. O'Halloran, September 1959

Anefo photo collection. Issue Alloy German soldiers in Budel in Lower House, a messenger removes a woman from the public gallie who went too. April 9, 1963. The Hague, South Holland

Vintage Photograph. Easter Sunday Crowd on Fifth Avenue. Frame 8.

Photograph of a civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama. Dated 1965

Anefo photo collection. Arrival Sint Nicolaas Amsterdam. November 15, 1986. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Anefo photo collection. Riots in Amsterdam at Dam Square. August 26, 1970. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

San Francisco, California: c. 1968 A man with smiley face buttons and American flags with the peace symbol during an anti Vietnam war demonstration.

Anefo photo collection. Prince Claus places highest point at the West Indian house restoration in Amsterdam; Prince Claus hoists top up. June 23, 1978. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Fatal shooting of Teen James Powell by Police Officer Lt. Thomas Gilligan, stirred African American rioters to race through Harlem streets carrying pictures of Lt. Gilligan, New York City, New York, USA, Dick De Marsico, World Telegram & Sun, July 1964

Supporters of U.S. President Richard Nixon during "Call America Back to God" Rally, photograph by Thomas J. O'Halloran, July 1974

Anefo photo collection. Parent day for UN soldiers in Zuidlaren. Parents and UN soldiers, overview during a speech. 26 February 1979. Drenthe, Zuidlaren

Three African American women with sign reading, 'Segregation is Discrimination'. Houston, Texas, ca. 1948. (BSLOC_2014_13_120)

Dinner in honor of Félix Houphouët-Boigny, President of the Ivory Coast, 8:00PM. President John F. Kennedy stands with President of the Ivory Coast, Félix Houphouët-Boigny (right), and First Lady of the Ivory Coast, Marie-Thérèse Houphouët-Boigny (center), upon their arrival at the White House for a dinner in their honor. Unidentified photographers stand in background. North Portico, White House, Washington D.C.

El mes de enero de 1976 los actores y músicos salen a la calle durante dos semanas para reclamar una política municipal de teatro y unas condiciones laborales que les permitan acceder al subsidio de desempleo, de los 1.400 actores censados en Barcelona sólo diez tienen trabajo. Manifestación por Las Ramblas.

Balloons are handed out during the launching ceremony for the nuclear-powered attack submarine USS BUFFALO (SSN-715). Base: Newport News State: Virginia (VA) Country: United States Of America (USA)

Mallorca, Aloy. Cobla sardanista. Año 1934.

Spectators wave and cheer as two C-9 Nightingale aircraft bring in the 52 freed hostages after their release from Iran. Base: Rhein-Main Air Base Country: Deutschland / Germany (DEU)

Peace Delegates on NOORDAM -- Suffragists Mrs. P. Lawrence, Jane Addams, Anita Molloy

Ruhr area. Press hype in a courtroom. Waiting for the defendant. ca. 1979-80

Anefo photo collection. Utrecht students keep a general meeting in the Academy Building. The students are addressed with a megaphone. June 18, 1969. Utrecht (Prov), Utrecht (city)

Anefo photo collection. Process South Multo Buset Province House. June 15, 1978

Anefo photo collection. Arrival thirty disabled Polish children at Schiphol will rehabilitate a month in the Diaconessen Hospital in Heemstede. 19 April 1982. Noord-Holland, Schiphol

Anefo photo collection. One may demonstration in Amsterdam. One of the demonstrators was injured. May 1, 1968. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

A vast crowd listening to Queen Elizabeth II give a speech in the Ramlila Grounds outside Old Delhi during the royal tour of India in 1961. The audience was estimated at 250,000. Date: 1961

Crowd at Arkansas State Capitol protesting integration of Central High School, with signs reading "Race mixing is Communism" and "Stop the race mixing," Little Rock, Arkansas, USA, John T. Bledsoe, U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection, August 20, 1959

Visit of members of the New York Herald Tribune Forum, 10:30AM. President John F. Kennedy greets New York Herald Tribune Forum group of students in the Conference Room (Fish Room), White House, Washington, D.C.

Anefo photo collection. 25 Birthday Government Jubilee Queen Juliana; Royal couple military tribute Palace House ten Bosch. September 3, 1973. Hague, South Holland

Anefo photo collection. Memorial South Moluke Independence Profeclamation in Houtrusthallen, The Hague; hoisting the flag. April 24, 1976. The Hague, South Holland

Young African American demonstrators march in downtown Birmingham, Alabama. During the SCLC 'Birmingham Movement,' children and teens were encouraged in protest and be arrested, in order to clog the city's legal system and create bad publicity. May 7, 1963.

High angle view of crowd in a rally, Beijing, China

Girl in Picket Line, Mid-City Company, South Chicago, Illinois, USA, John Vachon, U.S. Farm Security Administration, July 1941

DEU, Germany: The historical colour photos from the times of the 70s show events and people from politics, culture, trade unions, working life, medicine, etc. Bonn. Trade union. IG Chemie, Papier, Keramik 70s

Democratic fundraiser and birthday dinner in Columbus, Ohio, in honor of Governor Michael DiSalle of Ohio, 7:05PM. President John F. Kennedy walks with Governor Michael DiSalle of Ohio after exiting Air Force One. Unidentified men look on. Port Columbus Airport, Columbus, Ohio.

Anefo photo collection. Meeting campaign firefighters Meer Loon Amsterdam. October 30, 1985. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Anefo photo collection. Registration Walking celebration of Nijmegen; Group of Japanese also participating. July 20, 1981. Nijmegen

Citizens of Berlin are standing in a queue waiting to obtain the pass to go through East Berlin and spend Christmas time with families. High view. West Berlin (Germany), December 19, 1963.

Obersalzberg, Germany: c. 1934 Adolph Hitler being greeted at his summer home, the Berghof in the Bacarian Alps.

New Orleans, Louisiana: October 1, 1971 Inmates at Parish Prison stage a sit-down to protest conditions at at the facility.

Family of black people in New York , 1980

Red Guards China's shout long-live Chairman Mao ! during the Cultural Revolution. China 1967

Chairman Mao during the Cultural Revolution. 1966. Mao Zedong (1893 - September 9, 1976), was a Chinese communist revolutionary who became the founding father of the People's Republic of China (PRC), which he ruled as the Chairman of the Communist Party of China from its establishment in 1949 until his death

Crowd watching Nixon Nida at the Lane. July 12, 1949.

Picture of people giving a Nazi salute, with an unidentified person (possibly August Landmesser or Gustav Wegert) refusing to do so - 1936

Vice President Al Gore and family walk down 15th Street accompanied by members of the Secret Service, during the 1997 presidential inaugural parade. State: District Of Columbia (DC) Country: United States Of America (USA)

Anefo photo collection. In connection with the upcoming New Year, busy from fireworks. December 30, 1959

Anefo photo collection. Kraakpand Amsterdamse Looiersgracht. Squatters Looiersgracht building cleared Moker Plow armed confrontation. March 4, 1986. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Policeman confronts group of People after night of rioting due to fatal shooting of Teen James Powell by Police Officer Lt. Thomas Gilligan, 126th St. and Seventh Avenue, Harlem, New York City, New York, USA, Dick De Marsico, World Telegram & Sun, July 1964

Anefo photo collection. Four-day starting, crossings in Elst. July 26, 1960. Elst

President Mao Tse-Tung of China waves from the saluting stand during the 4½-hour parade in peking, October 1-fifty anniversary of Red China. At left is Russian Vice-President N.A. Bulganin. October 11, 1954. (Photo by Associated Press Photo).

Celebration (Parade). 1923 - 1955. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Pine Ridge Agency. 9/17/1947-. Photographs

Anefo photo collection. Commemoration "December murders" Surinamese consulate Amsterdam. December 8, 1987. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Children Protestors with Signs, "Mr. Wilson is Busy Protecting America's Enemy, The British Empire," etc., Washington DC, USA, circa 1915

Children marching in an elementary school parade circa 1963.

President of South Vietnam Nguyen Van Thieu, shaking hands with students from the University of Hawaii, with U.S. President Lyndon Johnson in the background, Honolulu, Hawaii, 1968.

San Sebastián de los Reyes (Madrid), 08/27/1988. A moment of the running of the bulls during the San Sebastián de los Reyes festivities.

Crowd gathered outside the White House after the announcement of Japan's surrender. V-J Day, August 14, 1945. - (BSLOC_2014_15_23)

Anefo photo collection. Pope visits NL, Pope John Paul II Welschap airport; No.2a: de Pope, mic.; Mgr. Simonis, no. 3a 5a: Public. 11 1985

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