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A view of the crowds lining Main Street at the intersection of Asylum Street from State Street. The building on the right is the Hartford National Bank and Trust.

A group of Italian men march up Main Street past Poli's Theatre carrying American and Italian flags to celebrate the end of the war.

Automobiles decorated with flags drive south down Main Street past Pearl Street in celebration of the Armistice.

A float shaped like a coffin passes down Main Street. The signs on the float read "To [ring] the Kaiser" and "How We Helped To Do".

Three young boys dress up as a flag bearer, Uncle Sam and a drummer and carry a sign that reads "To Hell With the Kaiser." From l-r Edward Hassett, Joseph Grant and Francis Grant.

Crowds throng Main Street in Hartford to celebrate the rumored armistice. On November 7, 1918 an unofficial report was released by the United Press declaring that an armistice had been signed and the war would end at 2:00 p.m. that day. By that…

Newspaper article in the Hartford Courant, claiming that the Armistice did not end the Great War

The Armistice information relayed to the American people, particularly Connecticut