Oct. 29 dies irae – Antique Wall Art
(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 lithograph of Oct. 29 dies irae brings a moment of history to your wall. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Oct. 29 dies irae
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The title, Latin for "day of wrath," borrows the opening of a medieval hymn on the Last Judgment, and it signals how the crash of October 29, 1929, was felt. On that Tuesday the New York Stock Exchange collapsed under a flood of selling, wiping out fortunes and shaking confidence across the country. This 1929 lithograph captures the panic around Wall Street, a scene that soon came to stand for the Great Depression that followed. The print was later reproduced in a 1997 visual history of the United States, which helps place it within the larger story of the era.
| Created / published | 1929 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph. |
| Genre | Lithographs 1920-1930. |
| Notes | Ben and Beatrice Goldstein Foundation Collection (Library of Congress). Published in: Eyes of the nation : a visual history of the United States / Vincent Virga and curators of the Library of Congress ; historical commentary by Alan Brinkley. New York : Knopf, 1997. Unprocessed in PR 13 CN 2002:170.1452 |
| Subjects | Stock Market Crash, 1929. Business panics--New York (State)--New York--1920-1930. Wall Street (New York, N.Y.)--1920-1930. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,178 × 1,484 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-218739 |
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