Photos: Fourth of July Celebrations From Years Past

Official White House Photo by Pete Souza President 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 / Getty Original caption: “Bathers in the waters of the Atlantic with the Steel Pier in the background, Atlantic City, New Jersey, July 4, 1911.”Library of Congress People enjoy a Fourth of July parade on Front Street in Nome, Alaska, in 1916.Harris & Ewing / Library of Congress Original 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 Ju