Cut-throat business in Wall Street. How the inexperienced lose their heads By Joseph Ferdinand Keppler, 1881.

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Cut-throat business in Wall Street. How the inexperienced lose their heads By Joseph Ferdinand Keppler, 1838-1894, artist. Date 1881. print shows 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, draped over the handle are many investors reaching for bundles of 'Pacific Mail, Western Union, [and] Erie' stocks, the blade is poised to drop. In the background another group of investors labelled 'The Lambs Brigade' are headed into the ' Stock Exchange'.

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