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Description: Run on the Seamen's Savings' Bank during the Panic of 1857. On October 13, 1857, after the Ohio Life & Trust Co. declared bankruptcy, panic struck the New York Stock Exchange and hundreds of other banks and individual investors were ruined. This wood engraving, , shows a crowd gesturing and shoving. A ragpicker picks up now-worthless stock certificates, and a pickpocket operates unnoticed. Wood engraving, 4.75 × 9.5 in.
Title: 1857 panic
Credit: The 1857-10-31 issue of Harper's Weekly (vol. I, p. 692). This copy came from the Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-5358 (b&w film copy neg.), uncompressed archival TIFF version (1228 kB), color level (pick white point, adjust black) and converted to JPEG (quality level 88) with the GIMP 2.4.5, image quality 88.
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