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- Charlie Chaplin stands on Douglas Fairbanks' shoulders during a Wall Street rally, 1918: photographer unknown, for The New York Times; image by Mr Gustafson, 21 October 2007
- The dozens and scores of pinnacles that have pierced the skies over Manhattan in the last dozen years, towers for doing business in and towers for living in, are the permanent notation of a great surge of prosperity. The tide itself once so often recedes. The towers are there to testify to the vast energy that threw them upwards and that is certain to reassert itself after the necessary retirement... For a while the receding tide leaves these ambitious monuments high and dry. Then the waves begin to lap forward again...
- -- The New York Times, 25 March 1931
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- Wall Street, from roof of Irving Trust Co. Building, Manhattan: photo by Berenice Abbott for Works Progress Administration, 4 May 1938 (New York Public Library Digital Gallery)
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- Trading floor of New York Stock Exchange just after the crash of 1929: photographer unknown, October 1929 (Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum)
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