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Run on the Seamen's Savings' Bank during the Panic of 1857.
On October 13, 1857, after the Ohio Life & Trust Co. declared bankruptcy, panic struck the New York Stock Exchange and hundreds of other banks and individual investors were ruined. This wood engraving, , shows a crowd gesturing and shoving. A ragpicker picks up now-worthless stock certificates, and a pickpocket operates unnoticed.

Wood engraving, 4.75 × 9.5 in.
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The 1857-10-31 issue of Harper's Weekly (vol. I, p. 692).

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