Wall Street Gambling, Stock Manipulation, 1908
Entitled: What show have you got, little man?" shows a man wearing top hat and tuxedo labeled "Stock Manipulation", one hand resting on a deck of "Marked Cards" and the other on a stack of gambling chips next to "Loaded Dice" and a wheel labeled "Brace Roulette", all on a playing table labeled "Wall Street", behind him are money bags and papers labeled "Fiduciary Funds, Treasury Deposits, Other Peoples' Money, Bank Loans, Pools"; standing in the foreground and looking up at the man is a diminutive man holding his "Savings" behind his back. Market manipulation is a deliberate attempt to interfere with the free and fair operation of the market and create artificial, false or misleading appearances with respect to the price of, or market for, a security, commodity or currency. Illustrated by Udo J. Keppler for Puck and published by Keppler & Schwarzmann, April 8, 1908
Size: 3576px × 4050px
Photo credit: © Photo Researchers / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
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