Scenes in Wall Street during the panic. Run on the Union Trust Company – Antique Photo Print
(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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Few images capture their era like this antique engraving of Scenes in Wall Street during the panic. Run on the Union Trust Company. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Scenes in Wall Street during the panic. Run on the Union Trust Company
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Depositors pressing toward the doors is the scene that sets this view apart: the title names a run on the Union Trust Company, a Wall Street institution overwhelmed in the autumn of 1873. The failure followed the collapse of Jay Cooke & Company that September, which set off a financial panic and led the New York Stock Exchange to close for about ten days. *Harper's Weekly*, which relied on wood engravings to show readers current events, published the scene in its October 11 issue. It is a useful record of how ordinary savers and brokers reacted in the street when confidence in banks suddenly disappeared.
| Created / published | 1873 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : wood engraving. |
| Genre | Periodical illustrations 1870-1880.Wood engravings 1870-1880. |
| Notes | Illus. in: Harper's weekly, 1873 Oct. 11, p. 893. |
| Subjects | Wall Street (New York, N.Y.)--1870-1880. Business panics--New York (State)--New York--1870-1880. Stock exchanges--New York (State)--New York--1870-1880. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,096 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-169997 |
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