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The Panic - Run on the Fourth National Bank, No. 20 Nassau Street [New York City, 1873] – Vintage Photo Print

The Panic - Run on the Fourth National Bank, No. 20 Nassau Street [New York City, 1873], 1873 — antique engraving
The Panic - Run on the Fourth National Bank, No. 20 Nassau Street [New York City, 1873], 1873. Antique engraving from the New York City collection.

(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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This antique engraving of The Panic - Run on the Fourth National Bank, No. 20 Nassau Street [New York City, 1873] brings a moment of history to your wall. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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The Panic - Run on the Fourth National Bank, No. 20 Nassau Street [New York City, 1873]

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Crowds jostling toward the doors of the Fourth National Bank at 20 Nassau Street in lower Manhattan are the subject of this wood engraving, which shows a bank run during the financial panic of 1873. The scene belongs to the weeks after the collapse of Jay Cooke & Company in September 1873, when fear that banks would fail sent depositors rushing to withdraw their savings. The engraving appeared in *Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper* on October 4, 1873, one of the weekly papers that relied on engravings like this to show readers events they could not see for themselves.

Created / published1873
Medium1 print : wood engraving.
SubjectsIllus. in: Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, 1873 Oct. 4, p. 67. Ref. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: NY--NYC--Bldgs.; NY--NYC--Misc.--1873; Finance; Banks..--NY; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,185 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-106552

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