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.
Vintage Photograph. Teenagers enjoying a 1950s dance party in a vintage gym setting.
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Poll photo collection. Netherlands Antilles and Suriname at the time of the royal visit of Queen Juliana and Prince Bernhard in 1955. Speech by Queen Juliana to the students of the Aruban technical school in Oranjestad in Aruba. October 24, 1955. Aruba, Netherlands Antilles, Oranjestad
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International Women's Day anti war demonstration 1938.Henrietta Drake-Brockman, 'Woman want Babies, not Gun Fodder',. June 01, 1938.
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Screaming teenagers girls wave a crude sign as they welcome 'The Beatles' at New York's Kennedy Airport. Feb. 7, 1964.
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1940S Patriotic Composite Of Smiling Boy And Girl Over Background Of The American Flag Blowing In The Wind
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Anefo photo collection. 63rd walking celebration of Nijmegen 1979. First day; Group of Japanese walkers. July 17, 1979. Gelderland, Nijmegen
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Activists marching in anti-violence demonstration, East Los Angeles, California
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September 11 demonstration, 1977, Barcelona.
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Visit of foreign educators in the Rose Garden, 10:00AM. President John F. Kennedy speaks to a group of over three hundred foreign educators from sixty-two countries, visiting the United States under the State Department's educational exchange program, Rose Garden, White House, Washington, D.C.
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Two young African Americans girls, one screaming during riots in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn. They were making a dash to freedom as they tried to avoid police. July 21, 1964.
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Suffragettes at turn of the last century holding Votes for Women picket sign, U.S., 1910s.
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Anefo photo collection. Suriname, meetings; Arron between Surinamese women, ice seller. April 1, 1975. Suriname
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English Derby at Epsom Downs Extras, Toni Frissell, Antoinette Frissell Bacon, Antoinette Frissell
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A Gold Star mother and other spectators attend the dedication of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. Base: Washington State: District Of Columbia (DC) Country: United States Of America (USA)
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Chicago Mayor Richard Daley leading Puerto Rican Day parade.
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Anefo photo collection. National election meeting of the Surinamese living in the Netherlands. September 18, 1977. The Netherlands, Suriname
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March for jobs in Washington, DC, African-Americans
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Ruhr area. DGB event with flags of the individual trade unions ca. 1986 7
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Reagan la roba a los pobres Migrant farm worker at a demonstration, Washington, D.C. Published 1981. Photograph shows an elderly man in the Solidarity Day march, holding a picket sign with the message: Pres. Reagan robas a los pobres para darle a los ricos, LCLAA, in a crowd at a protest. A sign in the background has the message: Pres. Reagan, do not snuff out the dreams of Hispanics!
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Foreign Students Reception, 4:45PM. Students and reporters gather for a foreign students reception. South Lawn, White House, Washington, D.C.
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Three suffragettes demonstrate in New York City to promote Suffrage Hike of 1912 from Manhattan to Albany and distribute their VOTES FOR WOMEN PILGRIM leaflets. Left to right: Mrs. J. Hardy Stubbs, Miss Ida Craft, Miss Roaslie Jones.
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Easter Egg Roll at White House. Bagpipers in the United States Air Force Pipe Band (in crowd at right) perform on the South Lawn of the White House, Washington, D.C., during the White House Easter Egg Roll. Guests, including children and families, observe; unidentified White House Police officers stand in the crowd. The South Lawn fountain, Washington Monument, and Jefferson Memorial are visible in background.
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1970s CROWD COLLEGE STUDENTS FOOTBALL GAME WAVING POM POMS CHEERING PENN STATE FANS IN BEAVER STADIUM PENNSYLVANIA USA
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Suffragette Holding Protest Banner "Mr. President How Long Must Women Wait for Liberty", Washington DC, USA, circa 1917
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Latinos Taking Pledge of Allegiance, Los Angeles, California
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Trip to Boston: President Kennedys Address at Boston College Centennial Ceremonies. Cardinal Cushing, Archbishop of Boston; Governor Endicott Peabody of Massachusetts; Nathan M. Pusey, President of Harvard University; Edward M. Kennedy (EMK). President John F. Kennedy delivers an address at a convocation ceremony commemorating the centennial anniversary of Boston College. Also pictured: British economist and author, Lady Barbara Ward Jackson; Representative Edward P. Boland (Massachusetts); President of Harvard University, Dr. Nathan M. Pusey; Representative Thomas P. Tip O'Neill, Jr. (Massachusetts); Representative James C. Auchincloss (New Jersey); Senator Edward M. Kennedy (Massachusetts); Senator Leverett Saltonstall (Massachusetts); Governor of Massachusetts, Endicott Chub Peabody; Archbishop of Boston, Richard Cardinal Cushing. Alumni Field, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts.
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Postal Service Day event, Post Office Square, Boston , Commemorations, Singing, Accordions. Edmund L. Mitchell Collection
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Two Women Putting Up Poster for Women's Suffrage Parade, Washington DC, USA, circa 1914
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Trip to Europe: Ireland, Galway: President Kennedy at Eyre Square, remarks and departure, 11:55AM. Mayor of Galway, Alderman Patrick D. Ryan (far left, at lectern), delivers remarks before the crowd gathered at Eyre Square in Galway, Ireland, during a welcoming ceremony for President John F. Kennedy. President Kennedy (seated with back to camera, right of the Mayor) and other distinguished guests sit on the upper platform; to the right of the lectern (on table) are the gilt cylinder casket and scroll presented to the President, as part of the ceremony, granting him the Honorary Freedom of the City of Galway.
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Anti-war protesters against World War II holding signs circa 1940 .
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Office of the Secretary - National Peace Officers' Memorial Service at U.S. Capitol with President George W Bush and Secretary Elaine Chao
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Anefo photo collection. Manifestation in Utrecht for Solidarity with Palestinians, Performance Palestinian singing dance group during the manifestation. November 29, 1980. Utrecht, Utrecht
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