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[Floor of Stock Exchange during market session, New York City] – Antique Wall Art

[Floor of Stock Exchange during market session, New York City] — historic photograph
[Floor of Stock Exchange during market session, New York City]. Historic photograph 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 rare historic photograph captures [Floor of Stock Exchange during market session, New York City] in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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[Floor of Stock Exchange during market session, New York City]

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The trading floor of the New York Stock Exchange in the 1930s was a crowded, noisy arena where brokers and clerks worked in tight knots around the posts that marked each stock's trading post, shouting bids and slips of paper flying in every direction. This c1934 view captures that scene during an active session, only a few years after the Crash of 1929 had shaken public confidence in the market. Pictures of the floor from this period are valuable to historians because they show how much of the exchange's business still depended on physical paperwork and face-to-face shouting, long before electronic trading arrived.

Medium1 photographic print.
Notesc1934.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,187 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-129388

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