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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…

Helping the war effort local Red Cross workers rolled surgical dressing

Women participated in Red Cross knitting Bees to make socks and other dress for soldiers and refugees in private homes . The home of Mrs. T.F. Garvan at 226 Farmington Ave., Red Cross Cathedral Branch, Hartford.

Window display of s women's shoe styles for the May 18th, 1918 Red Cross Parade

Red Cross Nurses in Full Uniform marching Down Main Street in Hartford, May 18, 1918

Women in uniform posing in front of a Red Cross Division Ambulance

Female American Red Cross workers in knitting booth at Charter Oak State Fairgrounds