A.H. Wiggin & J.P. Morgan – Historic Reproduction
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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A.H. Wiggin & J.P. Morgan
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Two of the most prominent names in early twentieth-century American finance appear together in this Bain News Service negative: Albert H. Wiggin, longtime head of the Chase National Bank, and the financier J.P. Morgan. The Bain News Service was a New York picture agency that supplied news photographs to newspapers and magazines, so pictures like this one were made to circulate as images of Wall Street figures in the news. The identification comes from the agency's caption cards and has not been independently verified, and the negative carries no firm date, so the exact occasion remains uncertain. Even so, it offers a useful view of how bankers were presented to the public in that period.
| Created / published | n/a |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Temp. note: Batch six loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 3,340 × 4,859 px · prints to 11 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-26790 |
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