Official White House Photo by Pete SouzaPresident Barack Obama, First Lady Michelle Obama, and Malia Obama watch the Fourth of July fireworks from the roof of the White House on July 4, 2014.Underwood & Underwood / GettyOriginal caption: “Bathers in the waters of the Atlantic with the Steel Pier in the background, Atlantic City, New Jersey, July 4, 1911.”Library of CongressPeople enjoy a Fourth of July parade on Front Street in Nome, Alaska, in 1916.Harris & Ewing / Library of CongressOriginal caption: “Fourth of July, 1916. Child as ‘Liberty.’”Transcendental Graphics / GettyA view of Broadway and Main streets in Butte, Montana, straddled by a 62-foot-tall copper-plated elk (tall enough for a streetcar to pass underneath) in July 1916. The elk was commissioned by the local chapter of the Elks Lodge for the joint celebration of the Fourth of July and the annual Elks convention.Library of CongressOriginal caption: “Fourth of July parade on Fifth Avenue, New York City, in 1918, with a Curtiss bombing plane mounted on a truck. View is south on 5th Avenue at 58th Street.”Hirz / GettyA high-angle view of hundreds of parked automobiles near Nantasket Beach, Massachusetts, with bathers walking along the shore and swimming in the surf during a Fourth of July weekend, circa 1925.Bettmann / GettyOriginal caption from 1938: “Brooklyn, New York: Coney Island. Those who were not fortunate enough to spend the Fourth of July weekend away from the city are shown as they packed the sands at Coney Island. Police estimated there were one million persons in this crowd. You count ‘em.”NY Daily News Archive / GettyOriginal caption from July 4, 1938: “Rita Perchetti and Gloria Rossi trying out their new portable bathhouses so they can change their clothes after sunbathing on Coney Island beach.”Marion Post Wolcott / Library of CongressOriginal caption: “A Fourth of July celebration, St. Helena Island, South Carolina, 1939”Paul Bernius / NY Daily News Archive / GettyOriginal caption from July 4, 1947: “Looking down on part of the record crowd at Coney Island from the Ferris wheel.”Russell Lee / Library of CongressOriginal caption: “Interlude, after watching the Fourth of July parade. Vale, Oregon, 1941.”Allan Tannenbaum / GettyOriginal caption: “As part America’s Bicentennial Celebration, a crowd of people fill bleachers on the Battery Park City landfill as they watch the OpSail (Operation Sail) parade of tall ships, New York, New York, July 4, 1976.”Joe Sohm / Visions of America / Universal Images Group / GettyA flotilla gathers near the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor, celebrating the Fourth of July on “Liberty Weekend,” which also celebrated the 100th anniversary of the Statue of Liberty, in 1986.Chris Pietsch / Lewiston Morning Tribune / USA Today Network / ReutersOriginal caption: “Two pyrotechs scramble for safety as boxes of fireworks accidentally explode during setup for a Fourth of July show in Clarkston, Washington, in 1987.”Bob Owen / ZUMA Press Wire / ReutersFourth of July tubers ride down Huaco Falls on the Guadalupe River near New Braunfels, Texas, in 2004.Elaine Thompson / APVisitors walk past a balloon replica of the head of the Statue of Liberty as it is raised at Seattle’s Gas Works Park on July 2, 1999.Nathan Morgan / Redding Record Searchlight / ZUMA Press Wire / ReutersD. J. Morrow eats his way to the rind in a watermelon-eating contest during the Lions Club Fourth of July festivities in Cottonwood, California, in 2009. “It feels good in my stomach,” said Morrow, after he came in second, “I’ve eaten more than that before.”Courtesy of the Seattle Municipal ArchivesA crowd at Seattle’s Gas Works Park enjoys Fourth of July fireworks over Lake Union, in 2015.Tara Ziemba / GettyA parade attendee carries a flag at the 112th Annual Huntington Beach Fourth of July Parade in Huntington Beach, California, on July 4, 2016.Paul J. Richards / AFP / GettyFireworks explode above the National Mall in Washington, D.C., on July 4, 2017.IMAGO / Piemags / ReutersMembers of the U.S. Navy parachute team, the Leap Frogs, carry a tethered American flag during a demonstration jump above San Diego’s Glorietta Bay on the Fourth of July in 2020.IMAGO / Piemags / ReutersFrontline workers and military families watch fireworks during the Fourth of July celebration on the South Lawn of the White House on July 4, 2021.
