<p>Run on the Seamen's Savings' Bank during the <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Panic_of_1857" title="Category:Panic of 1857">Panic of 1857</a>.<br>On October 13, 1857, after the Ohio Life &amp; 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.
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Wood engraving, 4.75 × 9.5 in.
Unknown author<span style="display: none;">Unknown author</span>
1857-10-31
<p>The 1857-10-31 issue of <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harper%27s_Weekly" class="extiw" title="w:Harper's Weekly">Harper's Weekly</a></i> (vol. I, p. 692).
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