"Shooting the Anvils" at Charleston

“Shooting the anvils” to celebrate the end of World War I. Main Street at Charleston (Franklin County); circa 1918.

Large crowd of people standing on street with storefronts in the background

From the Dildy family collection (BC.MSS.16.25), courtesy of the Butler Center for Arkansas Studies, Central Arkansas Library System

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