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Image: Jay Gould's Private Bowling Alley - Opper 1882

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Description: Cartoon, "Jay Gould's Private Bowling Alley." Financier and stock speculator Jay Gould is depicted on Wall Street, using bowling balls titled "trickery," "false reports," "private press" and "general unscrupulousness" to knock down bowling pins labeled as "operator," "broker," "banker," "inexperienced investor," etc. A slate shows Gould's controlling holdings in various corporations, including Western Union, Missouri Pacific Railroad, and the Wabash Railroad.
Title: Jay Gould's Private Bowling Alley - Opper 1882
Credit: This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs division under the digital ID ppmsca.28461. This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Commons:Licensing for more information.
Author: Frederick Burr Opper
Usage Terms: Public domain
License: Public domain
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