How Children Celebrate the American Fourth of July   

 

Boy on float in Fourth of July parade in 1941. [Image: Library of Congress]

 

 

The Fourth of July The Day Before (1906). [Image: Library of Congress]

 

 

1857 Currier & Ives print featuring "Fourth of July: Young America Celebrating." [Image: Library of Congress]

 

 

Fourth of July celebration in 1923. [Image: Library of Congress]

 

 

Bicycle riders in parade on the Fourth of July at Vale, Oregon in 1941. [Image: Library of Congress]

 

 

A 1906 photograph of a little boy holding three large firecrackers and an American flag. [Image: Library of Congress]

 

 

The little girls are wearing costumes for a Fourth of July observance in France during WWII. The sign in the background indicates the feeling of the French for their American liberators. July 4, 1944.[Image: Library of Congress]

 

Godey's Ladies Book, July 1864, illustrating one boy playing drum, one boy blowing horn and woman holding hands over her ears.

 

Fourth of July in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1941. [Image: Library of Congress]