The Welcome Home.

Gertrude Ederle returned to a New York that had stopped for her. The City gave her a ticker-tape parade through lower Manhattan — one of the largest the city had seen.

Contemporary press accounts describe a blizzard of ticker tape falling from the skyscrapers of lower Manhattan, and a roar from the crowd that drowned out everything else.

For the first time, a woman was the center of such a massive, city-wide celebration. The streets of lower Manhattan were lined with crowds, and ticker tape rained from the office buildings along Broadway.

Her achievement did more than set a swimming record — it shifted public perception of women in athletics. She had crossed the English Channel faster than any man before her, and New York acknowledged it.