Cut-throat business in Wall Street. ‘How the inexperienced lose their heads’, by Joseph Ferdinand Keppler, 1881. William H. Vanderbilt, Jay Gould, Russell Sage and James R. Keene checking ticker tape connected to a large straight-edge razor labelled 'Wade in & Butcher'em' and 'This Indicator Rises & Falls with Stocks' with a bear and a bull and several money bags labelled '$' balanced on the back of the blade. Below are many investors reaching for bundles of 'Pacific Mail, Western Union, [and] Erie' stocks. In the background another group of investors labelled 'The Lambs Brigade'.

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Keywords: american, chromolithograph, economy, exchange, finance, stock, street, tape, ticker, wall, york