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Banking and Finance

Advertisement announcing the establishment of the German American Bank in New York City

Advertisement from July 1870 announcing the establishment of the German American Bank in New York City with a cash capital…

Advertisement for Farmers and Merchants Bank

In 1871, Hellman founded the Farmers and Merchants Bank of Los Angeles with former California governor John G. Downey and…

Advertisement J. & W. Seligman & Co.

Advertisement J. & W. Seligman & Co. The firm offered international travelers letters of credit and provided bills of exchange…

Advertising poster from “The War of Wealth”

Advertising poster from “The War of Wealth,” a play staged in the mid-1890s based on events from the Panic of…

All in a Lifetime: A Personal Memoir

Created By: Loeb, John L., Frances Loeb, and Kenneth Libo Publisher: New York: J.L. Loeb, 1996

American Boomers and the Flotation of Shares in the City of London in the late Nineteenth Century

Created By: Hawkins, Richard A Source/Publisher: Business History 49.6 (2007): 746-766

American End of the Panama Scandal

The article discusses a Congressional investigation into the American committee in support of Ferdinand De Lesseps’ Panama Canal scheme. Jesse…

American Interests in Panama

The article discusses the threatened financial collapse of Frenchman Ferdinand De Lesseps’ enterprise to build a canal across the Isthmus…

Bank of America headquarters, San Francisco, 1939

Bank of America headquarters, San Francisco, 1939

Bank of America Logo Designed by Landor & Assoicates

Banking floor, Commercial National Bank, St. Paul, MN, ca. 1890

Banking floor, Commercial National Bank, 116 East Third Street, St. Paul, ca. 1890. Albert Scheffer stands sixth from right.

Banking on Global Markets: Deutsche Bank and the United States, 1870 to the Present

Created By: Kobrak, Christopher Publisher: Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008

BAT São Paulo, 1973

BAT São Paulo, 1973.

BAT São Paulo, 1978

BAT São Paulo, 1978.

Berliner Handelsgesellschaft Records

Created By: Bundesarchiv

Bought for $10,000,000

The article reports that a major syndicate including J. & W. Seligman & Co. and other major investment banks had…

Business Elite: German-Jewish Financiers in Nineteenth-Century New York

Created By: Supple, Barry E Source/Publisher: Business History Review 31.2 (1957): 143-178

Business of Plunder: The Nazi “Aryanization” of Private Banks and the Struggle for Restitution

Created By: Köhler, Ingo Publisher: New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014

C.H. Guenther & Sons receipt for the sale of flour, rye, and cornmeal

C.H. Guenther & Sons receipt for the sale of flour, rye, and cornmeal in 1889.

City leaders including Samuel Untermyer meeting to discuss IRT receivership, September 16, 1932

City leaders including Samuel Untermyer meeting to discuss IRT receivership, September 16, 1932

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