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.

Images of select items from this collection can be viewed below. For additional images, please visit our Flickr page.

1929 Curb Exchange Broker Broker at the Curb Exchange, which became the American Stock Exchange, during the Crash of 1929.

19th Century NYSE Brokers Brokers gathered around a stock ticker at the New York Stock Exchange, circa late 19th century.

Curb Exchange Clerk A clerk perches on a ledge to signal a trader below at the Curb Exchange, precursor to the American Stock Exchange.

Curb Exchange Photo Business conducted on the streets by the Curb Exchange before they moved indoors.

Gould Bowling Cover of the March 29, 1882 edition of the satirical Puck magazine villainizing Robert Barron Jay Gould.

Map Map of 1695 New York, published in 1851, clearly depicting the Wall Street “wall.”

Puck Cartoon Satirical cartoon published in Puck magazine from the Robber Baron era entitled “Cut-throat business on Wall Street – How the Inexperienced Lose Their Heads.”