Photos and Prints

The Museum’s photography and print collection includes the oldest known photograph of Wall Street, as well as lithographs, stereographs, popular satirical cartoons and various illustrations relating to the evolution and development of financial markets in America. Additional holdings include photographs of iconic Wall Street figures, pictures taken on the day of the stock market crash of 1929, and many images relating to trading, commerce and banking in Lower Manhattan and across the country.

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First photo: This picture, circa 1860, is the earliest known photograph of Wall Street. Taken from a ship's deck looking west on Wall Street, Trinity Church towers over the neighboring buildings. First photo: This picture, circa 1860, is the earliest known photograph of Wall Street. Taken from a ship's deck looking west on Wall Street, Trinity Church towers over the neighboring buildings.
Broker at the Curb Exchange, which became the American Stock Exchange, during the Crash of 1929.
Brokers gathered around a stock ticker at the New York Stock Exchange, circa late 19th century.
A clerk perches on a ledge to signal a trader below at the Curb Exchange, precursor to the American Stock Exchange.
Business conducted on the streets by the Curb Exchange before they moved indoors.
Cover of the March 29, 1882 edition of the satirical Puck magazine villainizing Robert Barron Jay Gould.
Map of 1695 New York, published in 1851, clearly depicting the Wall Street “wall.”
Satirical cartoon published in Puck magazine from the Robber Baron era entitled “Cut-throat business on Wall Street – How the Inexperienced Lose Their Heads.”