isomorphismes: Run on the Seamen’s Savings’ Bank during the Panic of 1857. On October 13
isomorphismes: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.31 October 1857Source The 1857-10-31 issue of Harper’s Weekly (vol. I, p. 692).—————This copy came from the Library of Congress. -- source link