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Knickerbocker Trust (right, built 1909) and Manhattan Life Bldgs., 60 & 66 Broadway. The bank was chartered in 1884 by Frederick G. Eldridge, a friend and classmate of financier J.P. Morgan. As a trust company, its main business was serving as trustee for individuals, corporations and estates. Eldridge was the founding president serving until ...
The Trust Company of America was a large company in New York City. Founded on May 23, 1899 in Albany, New York, [1] its founding president was Ashbel P. Fitch and it was initially located in the Singer Building in Manhattan 's Financial District. [1] In 1907 the company absorbed the Colonial Trust Company, a commercial bank. [2]
Panic of 1896. The Panic of 1896 was an acute economic depression in the United States that was less serious than other panics of the era, precipitated by a drop in silver reserves, and market concerns on the effects it would have on the gold standard. Deflation of commodities' prices drove the stock market to new lows in a trend that began to ...
The Panic of 1901 was the first stock market crash on the New York Stock Exchange, caused in part by struggles between E. H. Harriman, Jacob Schiff, and J. P. Morgan / James J. Hill for the financial control of the Northern Pacific Railway. The stock cornering was orchestrated by James Stillman and William Rockefeller 's First National City ...
A scene from a bucket shop in 1892. A bucket shop is a business that allows gambling based on the prices of stocks or commodities.A 1906 U.S. Supreme Court ruling defined a bucket shop as "an establishment, nominally for the transaction of a stock exchange business, or business of similar character, but really for the registration of bets, or wagers, usually for small amounts, on the rise or ...
Panic of '07. Panic of '07 or Panic of 07 may refer to: Panic of 1907. Financial crisis of 2007–2008. Subprime mortgage crisis.
The bank panic of 1933 is the setting of Archibald MacLeish's 1935 play, Panic. Other fictional depictions of bank runs include those in American Madness (1932), It's a Wonderful Life (1946, set in 1932 U.S.), Silver River (1948), Mary Poppins (1964, set in 1910 London), Rollover (1981), Noble House (1988) and The Pope Must Die (1991).
