Labour V Capital cartoonA swarm gathers on Federal Hall in Wall Street during the bank panic in October 1907The Aldrich Plan - a cartoonA February 2, 1910 editorial cartoon in Puck, a political satire magazine from 1871 to 1918, titled: "The Central Bank—Why should Uncle Sam establish one, when Uncle Pierpont is already on the job?The headquarters of the Knickerbocker Trust Company at the northwest corner of Fith Avenue and 34th Street
The 1907 Crisis in Historical Perspective

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