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View of a parade on Congress Avenue during the 1940s

1945-11-11

Parade on Armistice Day. Armistice Day is commemorated every year on 11 November to mark the armistice signed between the Allies of World War I and Germany at Compiègne, France, at 5:45 am for the cessation of hostilities on the Western Front of World War I, which took effect at eleven in the morning—the "eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month" of 1918.

1942-11-11

View of military personal marching in the March 1946 Victory Parade on Congress Avenue

1946-03

View of cars driving in the Victory Parade on Congress Avenue in March 1946

1946-03

View of military jeep and crowd of onlookers at a victory parade on Congress Avenue March 1946

1946-03-29

View of tanks at a victory parade on Congress Avenue March 1946. The annual or semiannual parades mark the Allied victory in World War II on the Eastern Front, on the same day as the signing of the German act of capitulation to the victorious Allies in Berlin, at midnight of May 9, 1945 (Soviet time), officially concluding the Second World War in Europe and northern parts of Africa.

1946-03

Boy Scouts of American Parade on Congress Avenue, 1954

1954-02-06

Boy Scouts of American Parade on Congress Avenue, 1954

1954-02-06

Austin Volunteer Fire Department on parade down Congress Avenue, 1910. The wagon is pulled by three horses with multiple volunteers aboard, along with the ladder. Mrs. McClure Groceries store and a book store are visible storefronts along Congress.

1910

July 4th parade in 1894

1894-07-04

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