Business Man Collection (#5)

PORTABLE TYPEWRITER, 1889. A man using a Victor portable typewriter while riding in a railroad car. Wood engraving, American, 1889

NEW YORK STATE: HOUSE. Residence of Cyrus W. Field in Irvington-on-Hudson, New York. Wood engraving, c1876

PENNSYLVANIA: HOUSE, c1876. Residence of American businessman Asa Packer in Mauch Chunk, Pennsylvania. Wood engraving, c1876

WILLIAM WHIPPER (1808-1876). American businessman and abolitionist. Wood engraving, American, 19th century

PARIS: BOULEVARD, 1870. Wealthy Parisians crowd the new Boulevard des Italiens. Wood engraving, English, 1870

MORITZ VON HIRSCH (1831-1896). (Baron de Hirsch). German businessman and philanthropist. Wood engraving, 1890

NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE. Interior view of the New York Stock Exchange at 10 Broad Street. Line engraving, 1881

JAMES JEROME HILL (1838-1916). American railway promoter. Line and stipple engraving, 1896

WILLIAM STILL (1821-1902). Abolitionist, writer and businessman: American engraving, 19th century

SAMUEL M. ISaCS (1804-1878). American editor and philanthropist

CADWALLADER COLDEN WASHBURN (1818-1882). American businessman and politican. Steel engraving, American, 1877

BANKS AND BANKING, c1880. Wood engraving, American, c1880

THE SOUTH SEA BUBBLE, 1720. Change Alley, at the junction of Lombard Street and Cornhill, during the time of the South Sea Bubble scandal, 1720. Wood engraving, English, 19th century

WILLIAM D. WASHBURN (1837-1912). American businessman and politican. Engraving, American, 1889

SETH LOW (1850-1916). American merchant, politician, and educator. Wood engraving, 1890

PETER FANEUIL (1700-1743). American merchant. Wood engraving, 19th century

OAKES A. AMES (1804-1873). American manufacturer, railroad promoter, and politician. Line engraving, American, 1896

ALEXANDER T. STEWART (1803-1876). American merchant. Line and stipple engraving, 1876

JOHN BATTERSON STETSON (1830-1906). American hat manufacuter. Steel engraving, American, late 19th century

SALOMON HEINE (1767-1844). German banker and uncle of the poet and critic, Heinrich Heine (1797-1856). Wood engraving, German, 19th century

MERCHANT TRADE DOCUMENT. Copper engraving, English, c1740

BANK PANIC OF 1857. Run on the Seamens Bank for Savings in New York City in October 1857. Wood engraving from a contemporary newspaper

BLACK FRIDAY, 1869. The New York Stock Exchange board in session, 25 September 1869 - the day after the original Black Friday gold panic on Wall Street

JAMES ROBERT KEENE (1838-1913). American promoter and speculator

A. MENDELSSOHN-BARTHOLDY (1776-1835). Abraham Mendelssohn-Bartholdy. German Jewish banker. Wood engraving, 1882

CHICAGO STOCK EXCHANGE. The trading floor of the Chicago Stock Exchange. Wood engraving, American, 1883

LEVI PARSONS MORTON (1824-1920). American banker and politician. Wood engraving, 19th century

JOHN ALSOP (d. 1794). American merchant. Wood engraving, 1883

LONDON: ROYAL EXCHANGE. The New London Stock Exchange. Line engraving, 1854

THOMAS O. LARKIN (1802-1858). American merchant and California pioneer. Wood engraving, 19th century

NY STOCK EXCHANGE, 1881. Trading on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange: colored engraving, 1881

WILLIAM RUSSELL GRACE (1832-1904). American merchant and shipowner. Wood engraving, 1880

HENRY VILLARD (1835-1900). American journalist and railroad executive. Line engraving, 1890

THEODORE NEWTON VAIL (1845-1920). American telephone and telegraph executive: steel engraving, 19th century

NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE. Christmas carnival in the New York Stock Exchange. Line engraving, 1885

THOMAS DURANT (1820-1885). Thomas Clark Durant. American businessman. Steel engraving, 19th century

WILLIAM ANDREWS CLARK (1839-1925). American mineowner and politician. Steel engraving, late 19th century, after a photograph

EMANUEL LEHMAN (1827-1909). American banker and philanthropist. Line and stipple engraving, late 19th century

BANK PANIC, 1873. Run on the Union Trust Company in New York City, during the Panic of 1873. Wood engraving from a contemporary American newspaper

MORITZ von HIRSCH (1831-1896). Aka Baron de Hirsch. German businessman and philanthropist. Wood engraving, 1896

WILLIAM ANDREWS CLARK (1839-1925). American mineowner and politician. Steel engraving, 1896

BANK PANIC, 1890. Run on a bank. Line engraving, American, 1890

COSIMO de MEDICI (1389-1464). Cosimo de Medici the Elder. Florentine banker and ruler of the republic. Line engraving

BANK PANIC: 1857. Run on the Seamans Savings Bank in New York City during the financial panic of 1857: contemporary colored engraving

BANK PANIC OF 1857. Scene on Wall Street at the time of the Panic of 1857. Line engraving, 19th century

BLACK FRIDAY, 1869. The scene at Broad Street in New York City on Black Friday, the Gold Panic of 24 September 1869. Contemporary American wood engraving

JONAS HANWAY (1712-1786). English merchant and philanthropist. Line engraving, English, 1787

Russian businessman talking to two workmen attempting to repair a damaged Russian battleship. Date 1904

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