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Scene in the New York Gold room during the excitement of September 24th, 1869 – Vintage Wall Art

Scene in the New York Gold room during the excitement of September 24th, 1869, 1869 — antique engraving
Scene in the New York Gold room during the excitement of September 24th, 1869, 1869. 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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Scene in the New York Gold room during the excitement of September 24th, 1869 comes to life in this antique engraving, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Scene in the New York Gold room during the excitement of September 24th, 1869

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The chaos on the floor of the New York Gold Exchange on September 24, 1869, known as Black Friday, is the subject of this wood engraving. Speculators Jay Gould and James Fisk had tried to corner the gold market, driving the price up sharply before it collapsed when the federal government sold gold to break the squeeze. Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper ran the scene on October 9, 1869, and its crowded, shouting brokers show how quickly fortunes were made and lost that day.

Created / published1869
Medium1 print : wood engraving.
NotesIllus. in: Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, 1869 October 9, p. 65. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Finance; Geogr.; Gold.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,073 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-141930

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