The Day Wall Street Exploded: A Story of America in Its First Age of Terror by Beverly Gage

Author:Beverly Gage
Language: eng
Format: mobi, pdf
Tags: Business & Economics
ISBN: 019514824X
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2008-12-30T05:00:00+00:00

New York police offi cers restrain anxious onlookers near the steps of the U.S. Sub-Treasury on September 16, 1920. On the ground are bodies of explosion victims, covered in white sheets. New York Daily News / dailynewspix.com.

The Treasury Department summoned a U.S. Army battalion to protect almost a billion dollars in gold being transferred to the assay offi ce next door on September 16. New York Daily News / dailynewspix.com.

Inside the Morgan bank on September 16, 1920. The windows face onto Wall Street.

Scrapbook of Jane Norton Grew; courtesy of the Morgan Library and Museum.

Twenty-four hours after the explosion, tens of thousands of spectators descended on Wall and Broad for a patriotic Constitution Day rally. New York World-Telegram and Sun Collection / Library of Congress.

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