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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Cartoons


Cartoon from Harper's Weekly, 28 February 1912

 


Image from The Milwaukee Journal, 13 June 1898


 

 

 

 

 

 

Images from The Milwaukee Journal, 17 October 1898

 


A 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?"

 

 

Cartoon from Harper's Weekly, 4 March 1871

 

People


Image of Morgan from Cotter's The Authentic History of the United States Steel Corporation

 


Image from Cotter's The Authentic History of the United States Steel Corporation, 1916 edition

 


Image of Schwab from Cotter's The Authentic History of the United States Steel Corporation

 


Images of the three men from Arundel Cotter's The Authentic History of the United States Steel Corporation

 

Ida Tarbell, (November 5, 1857 – January 6, 1944) was a leading American muckraking journalist known for her investigation of the money trusts in McClure's Magazine.

 

 

FTC Report


Page 1 of the 1934 FTC Report

 


Page 5 of the 1934 FTC Report


Page 13 of the 1934 FTC Report

 


Page 14 of the 1934 FTC Report

 

 

Photographs


A swarm gathers on Federal Hall in Wall Street during the bank panic in October 1907.

 


The floor of the New York Stock Exchange in 1908 where trading nearly collapsed at the end of October as banks were reluctant to lend.

 


The headquarters of the Knickerbocker Trust Company at the northwest corner of Fith Avenue and 34th Street, across the street from the modern-day site of the Empire State Building.


  

  

  

 

 

 

   

 

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