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Wall St. Lays An Egg – Antique Wall Art

Wall St. Lays An Egg, 1929 — historic print
Wall St. Lays An Egg, 1929. Historic print from the Historic Print Archive 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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Variety, the New York trade paper covering theater and show business, ran this headline on Wednesday, Oct. 30, 1929, the day after the stock market's collapse on Black Tuesday. "Laying an egg" was stage slang for a flop, so the paper used its own vocabulary to describe Wall Street's failure. Its appearance in a show-business publication shows how far the crash's impact reached beyond the financial district, into theaters, newsrooms and households across the country.

Created / published1929
Medium1 print.
SubjectsIllus. in: Variety, New York, Wednesday, Oct. 30, 1929. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Theater; U.S. Hist--1929; Stock Market; Newspapers.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,203 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-143832

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