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Historical Military Parades

Historic photographs of large military parades during World War I, showcasing soldiers, celebrations, and public gatherings in various cities.

Commemoration along the streets of Split for Antonio Bajamonti (1822-1891), Italian mayor of the city, Croatia, from L'Illustrazione Italiana, Year XXXVIII, No 6, February 5, 1911.

Vilnius NN civilians and military posing in the meadow group portrait ozi ski, Jan

Inauguration Albany, 1/1/15

Paris (4th arr.), France The funeral of Marshal Foch at Notre-Dame Cathedral, the departure of the funeral procession , (French - Paris ( IVe arr. ) , France Les obsèques du maréchal Foch à la cathédrale Notre-Dame , le départ du cortège funèbre). Church, funeral, personality funeral, military uniform, military parade, Christianity, crowd, carpet , hanging, door, flag, religious architecture, Society, personality, clothing, religion, housing , architecture, France, Paris, funeral of Marshal Foch

10/06/1913. M. Poincare in Madrid. The President of the French Republic and HM The King (X) Witnessing the artillery parade yesterday tomorrow from the main balcony of the palace.

Sheriff Kinkead & strikers, Bayonne

Police Join Parading Paris Strikers -- Policeman carrying a banner (foreground) in a long parade of striking Government Employees who held a demonstration for one hour in Paris yesterday February 14. This picture made at plage de L'Opera, shows the grand hotel - a Parisian landmark - in the background.As the city was paralysed by the strike of thousands of civil Servants, premier Ramadier told the National.Assembly: "If France cannot submit herself to National discipline the country, and even the republican regime, will be in great danger. January 01, 1947. (Photo by Associated Press Photo).

The Haig Memorial, an equestrian statue in Whitehall commissioned by Parliament, and sculpted by Alfred Frank Hardiman, aroused considerable public controversy, and was not unveiled until just before Armistice Day in 1937 (this ceremony is pictured here). 1937

12/27/1920. Barcelona. A demonstration of mourning for the burial of the four Guards who died in the events on the street of the Teatro arch. (photo Branguli).

Lieutenant Colonel Pense leading his Battalion, the 21st Canadian Infantry Battalion, across the Rhine at Bonn. Images from Canadian Forces in First World War Germany 1918

Washington, District of Columbia. The Grand Review of the Army. Units of 20th Army Corps, Army of Georgia, passing on Pennsylvania Avenue near the Treasury. Civil war photographs, 1861-1865 . United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865.

German army march through the streets of Potsdam 1933

03/25/1919. Toledo. The Festival of Flags. Parade through the Plaza de Zocodover, towards the Alcázar, of the Students of the Infantry Academy, Carriers of the Flags Collected from the Artillery Museum.

Balfour's escort at Washington

Liberty Bond Meet

The strikers and police during the Glasgow strikes. Date: 1919

Joffre in Br'klyn i.e., Brooklyn

Fascist cycling event, Genoa, Italy, 20th century.

U.S. General John J. Pershing Saluting on Horseback while Leading World War I Veterans during Parade, New York City, New York, USA, Bain News Service, September 10, 1919

Departure of Spanish troops, (1870s), 1920s. Artist: Unknown

Volunteer enlisters. (IT)

Warsaw. "Processes of the Cia, in Krakow's suburbs" (view from the balcony of the Malcza tenement house); Beyer, Karol (1818-1877); 4.06.1863 (1859-00-00-1863-00-00);Corpus Christi (holiday), Krakowskie Przedmieście (Warsaw - street), Méyet, Leopold (1850-1912) - collection, Warsaw (Masovian Voivodeship), Dar (provenance)

Boy Scouts Fire Drill ca. 1911-1917.

Czech troops accompany President Thomas Masaryk in Prague; 25th December 1918

Cannon exhibition. The armistice. (November 1918) WAR 1914-1918. "Gun exposure. The armistice.". Cannon exhibition for the Armistice Festival, City Hall Square. Paris (Ive Arr.), November 1918. Photography of Charles Lansiaux (1855-1939).

Anefo photo collection. Kranzlagding on Dam Square by Royal Couple at National Monument. Posting wreaths by soldiers. May 4, 1961

Anefo photo collection. Unveiling of the National Monument. May 4, 1956

Anefo photo collection. Journey from Queen Wilhelmina by liberated southern Netherlands (Zeeland, Brabant and Limburg). 's-Hertogenbosch. Market overview. March 20, 1945. 's-Hertogenbosch

2nd august 1914: crowds waving off French recruits and conscripts as they leave the gare de lEst in Paris for the frontlines, after the outbreak of World war One

Anefo photo collection. Memorial Waterlooplein. Reason. Rates. February 25, 1948

The liberation of Paris, August 1944. Jubilant French civilians surround the obelisk in the Place de la Concorde and others ride on an American jeep. The German forces in Paris surrendered to the Allies on 25 August 1944. The photographer is unknown.

04/10/1911. Burial of the Count of Tejada de Valdosera: the presidency of the mourning when passing through the Plaza de Colon.

Saul Metz addressing shirt-waist strikers, New York

German soldiers marching through Paris, 14 June 1940. Artist: Unknown

"Jeeps" Take Steps In Their Stride -- Three of the U.S. Army's sturdy little "Jeeps" - The cars which can "go anywhere and do anything" - speed up the steps of the New York State Capitol at Albany. July 15, 1942. (Photo by Interphoto News Pictures, Inc.).

Barcelona. Paseo de Gracia. Desfile militar en la confluencia con la avenida Diagonal. Años 1915.

Crowds gather in Rome to celebrate Italy's entry into World war One May 1915

Exchanging French - English prisoners, Singen, Switz.

Austrian troops in Görz, Soldiers on an open square in the town. In the foreground a horse and wagon.

Petrograd (Saint Petersburg), July 4, 1917 2PM. Street demonstration on Nevsky Prospekt just after troops of the Provisional Government have opened fire with machine guns.

crowds line up to pass the coffin of Austrian archduke Franz Ferdinand after his assassination in 1914

Army-Yale, 10/19/12

01/16/1914. Burial of General Polavieja. Moment when the coffin is placed in an artillery rack ready at the door of the Mortuary House.

Artillery in the Great March of the Empire's Forces, Westminster Bridge, London, 1919().Artist: Realistic Travels Publishers

Adolf Hitler (* 20 April 1889 in Braunau am Inn) ( 30 April 1945 Berlin), Leader of the Nazi Party, Reich Chancellor from 1933, also self-appointed "Fuehrer" and head of state of Germany

Red Army Day Celebrations, London, England, UK, February 1943 A general view of the Red Army Day concert in progress at the Royal Albert Hall, London.

Reception of U.S. Fleet, Sydney, N.W.S.

german school children march with Nazi flags through the brandenburg Gate in Berlin. Circa 1933-35

Band of 71st N.Y.

'Petain et Foch a Strasbourg; Le 27 novembre: le marechal Foch, a cheval, entre les generaux de Castelnau et Vandenberg, devant la statue de Kleber', 1918. From "L'Album de la Guerre 1914-1919, Volume 2" L'Illustration, Paris, 1924.

Benito Mussolini being cheered outside Autonomous Mobile Legion Ettore Muti barracks in Milan, Italy, World War II, photograph by Luce Ungaro from L'Illustrazione Italiana, Year LXXI, No 52, December 24, 1944.

Red Army leads celebrations in Leningrad (St Petersburg), of the tenth anniversary of the Russian Revolution in 1917

''La Chute des Habsbourg; Les dernieres joies du pouvoir; l'empereur Charles, roi de Hongrie, et l'imperatrice Zita, escortesnde leur garde du corps en costume d'apparat arrivent a Debreczin, en Hongrie, le 23 octobre 1918, pour assister a l'inauguration de l'Universite magyare', 1918. From "L'Album de la Guerre 1914-1919, Volume 2" L'Illustration, Paris, 1924.

The Seventh Regiment is assembled in front of the Metropolitan Hotel as ambassadors enter their carriages on June 18, 1860. The scene captures a military parade with spectators observing the event in Manhattan, New York. The image is an albumen print, depicting a significant moment during the Japanese Embassy's visit to the United States

President McKinley delivering his inaugural address, Washington, U.S.A., Stereo Card, John F. Jarvis, March 4, 1897

Germany, 02/01/1907. The Reden Catastrophe. In the image, the entrance to the mine shafts after the first news of the incident became known.

Beauvais, France , 1930 - Ile -de -France - Stéphane Passet - (September -October) (French - Beauvais , France). Funeral, military uniform, town hall , town hall, crowd, public civil architecture, air transport, street scene, airship, news, ephemeral installation, flag, army, Company, clothing, housing , architecture, transport, daily life, Oise, Beauvais, the funeral of the British airship-Entrance and decoration of the Hotel-de-Ville

Miilitary members with a sign reading, "Survivors of Bataan and Corregidor Death March!

Festival of Liberation, October 20, 1918. Liberation Festival, Place de la Concorde, 8th arrondissement, October 20, 1918 WAR 1914-1918. Liberation festival, Place de la Concorde. Paris (VIIIth ARR.), October 20, 1918. Photograph of Godefroy Houseau.

The concert of the bands of the allied armies in Piazza Duomo in Milan, Italy, World War I, from l'Illustrazione Italiana, Year XLV, No 9, March 3, 1918.

Soldiers on horseback waiting in front of Versailles palace, October 15, 1903, Italian royal visit to Paris, France, photograph by C Crocco-Egineta, from L'Illustrazione Italiana, Year XXX, No 43, October 25, 1903.

71st N.Y. Regt. departs

Black troops at the Memorial Day parade, Washington, D.C., Constitution Avenue

Crowds gather in Times Square to celebrate the surrender of Japan, V-J Day, New York City, New York, USA, U.S. Army Signal Corps, August 15, 1945

Demonstration of Putilov workers on the first day of the February Revolution of 1917

Mario Tedeschi during a Touring Club excursion. ca. 1915

Police hurry to bomb-throwing scene, Union Square, anarchist riot, New York

Parade for the 4th anniversary of national victory in World War I in Piazza del Duomo, Milan, Italy, November 4, 1922, from L'Illustrazione Italiana, Year XLIX, No 46, November 12, 1922.

demonstration by march by Nazi party members 1923, BerlinGermany

Stalin To Be Buried Beside Lenin In Red Square Shrine Lenin's tomb, Red Square, Moscow, where Marshal Stalin is likely to be buried beside his old comrade. ***** lies at the foot of the 60 feet high main wall of the *****, where Stalin lived and died. It Was announced to-day that the lying-in-state will be in the Hall of Columns of the Trade Union House, near the Kremlin Stalin Will lie in an open coffin, guarded by troops, while thousands file past to pay a last tribute. March 06, 1953.

Decoration Day 1917

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