Historical Public Gatherings

Black and white images of crowds attending significant events, including parades, sports, and ceremonies, reflecting various historical moments from the 1940s to 1960s.

Review of officers during the Freeman Field Munity. The Mutiny was a protest by African American pilots against an all-White officers' club. April 1945.
Review of officers during the Freeman Field Munity. The Mutiny was a protest by African American pilots against an all-White officers' club. April 1945.
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Granary Burying Ground, Boston , Cemeteries. Edmund L. Mitchell Collection
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Laying out equipment for inspection, Marine Corps Recruit Depot, Parris Island, S. C. , Military facilities, Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United States
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Trip to Maine Massachusetts: Boston, fund raising dinner at Commonwealth Armory, 8:13PM. President John F. Kennedy departs the Commonwealth Armory in Boston, Massachusetts, following the All New England Salute Dinner in his honor; members of the Massachusetts State Police escort President Kennedy and his party. Also pictured: co-chairman of the dinner and Sheriff of Middlesex County, Massachusetts, Howard W. Fitzpatrick; White House Secret Service agents, Arthur L. Art Godfrey, Floyd Boring, Paul A. Burns, and Ron Pontius.
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Birthday Party Se.Majesty at armesgr.kmdo.erzh.karl. 18.8. .
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Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. Participants in running competition are drawn up in Rijen at Start. 1947. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies
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The New Government of Greece Enters Athens, 18 October 1944 The Greek Prime Minister M Papandreou, made a speech which was broadcast to the whole country and afterwards laid a wreath on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. Cars bearing the new Prime Minister of Greece, Mr George Papandreou and his Government pass through the crowded streets of Athens.
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Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Visit of the main legene mitten H.J.J.M. Van strails to Semarang. Procession. Music corps in a city Semarang?. Chinese-Indian party cap Go Meh. March 1947. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies, Semarang
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Munich. March of German and Italian fascists (well close proximity station square). Autocor and spectators
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Machine Gun Insignia. 22,500 Officers & Men; 600 Machine Guns; Machine Gun Training Centre; Camp Hancock, Augusta, GA.; Brig. Gen. Oliver Edwards Com'd'g; Lt. Col. E.P. Pierson Direction.. Mole & Thomas (American, active about 1910 - 1919)
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Some Senegalese soldiers watch the sky in curious mood as an aircraft flies over them, photograph by J Clair-Guyot from the magazine L'Illustration, year 71, no 3673, July 19, 1913.
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Arrival ceremony for Haile Selassie I, Emperor of Ethiopia, 12:00PM. President John F. Kennedy and Emperor of Ethiopia, Haile Selassie I, ride in the presidential limousine (Lincoln-Mercury Continental convertible) during a motorcade from Union Station to Blair House in honor of Emperor Selassie's arrival; crowds line Pennsylvania Avenue. Also pictured: Air Force Aide to the President, Brigadier General Godfrey T. McHugh; White House Secret Service agents, Ron Pontius, Jack Ready, Gerald A. Jerry Behn, Bill Greer, Bert de Freese, and Bill Payne. Washington, D.C.
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Paris, August 25, 1944 - Liberation Day in Paris when the Allies entered the city.
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