Photo of the Day

No. 529

civic virtue, a prerequisite for social progress

Victorious troops from the Spanish-American War on parade near Grant’s Tomb, September 30, 1899.

Two million New Yorkers gave Admiral George Dewey the city’s first ticker-tape parade on September 30, 1899.

His flagship, the USS Olympia, had just returned to New York Harbor after defeating the Spanish fleet i…