Finance Collection (page 20)

Broadway Savings Bank, New York
Banks, Broadway Savings Bank. Broadway Savings Institution; people on sidewalk, adjacent buildings partly visible, including Underwood Typewriter building. Date: 1907

Bowery Savings Bank. Main banking room at the Bowery Savings Bank, on the Bowery

Bankers Convention 1904
Bankers Conventions, to Westpoint, N.Y. Guests of Charles W. Morse aboard C.W. Morse. Four men standing on the deck of the C.W. Morse at a bankers convention in West Point, N

Payroll staff
Group of Two Men of Payroll Staff. Aeolian Co

Origin Species, CH Bennett, man of finance - shark
Alls fish that comes. Satire on Darwins Origin of Species showing the evolution of man of finance from a shark. Shark fins have developed into a swallow-tail coat, his own tail into a pair of legs

Bank of England, Threadneedle Street, London
Street scene outside the Bank of England in Threadneedle Street, City of London, on a busy day

Double page spread in a diary for 23-28 October
A double page spread in a young persons diary for 23-28 October. Each day is given a small illustration, relating either to the season, or to the anniversary of an historical event

Policeman at a building society premises
A policeman at a London branch of the Halifax Building Society, making notes in his notebook

High Street and Lloyds Bank, Haverfordwest, South Wales
View of the High Street, including Lloyds Bank, in Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, Dyfed, South Wales

Consolidated Stock Exchange, New York City, America

Iraqi bank official with a large safe, Iraq
An Iraqi bank official with a large safe, somewhere in Iraq

Poor Rate Receipt, Kidderminster Union
A receipt for a poor rate payment by A Gristwood of the Borough of Bewdley to the Kidderminster Union in September 1923. The Unions operation was financed by the poor rate - the forerunner of

The Napoleon of Finance

Calcutta, India - Chartered Bank

The Bank of England - Art Nouveau Border
A rather ordinary photograph (apart from the provenance - see below!) of England, but set within a spectacular Art Nouveau border!

Post Office Savings Bank
A coal carter opening an account with Her Majesty at the Post Office Savings Bank. In 1861 the Palmerston government set up the Post Office Savings Bank

French National Loan poster for the Credit Foncier d Algerie et de Tunisie, showing a busy scene in a North African port

Poster for War Savings Certificates
Poster encouraging people to buy War Savings Certificates. The bayonets have won through -- its your turn now

Turkish Coin Card - small denominations
Turkish Coin Card, illustrating various small denominations of coin with their foreign exchange rates

Turkish Coin Card, illustrating various denominations of coin with their foreign exchange rates

How John Bull Felt
After surviving the hundred pages of cartoons and skits showered upon him in our recent Special " Falling Pound" Number

A Sovereign Remedy
John Bull holds the hand of a rather unhealthy looking pound note in a satirical illustration which alludes to the falling value of sterling against the dollar in 1920

Will it Come to This
A possible scenario due to the falling value of the pound against the dollar in 1920. A brashly dressed cigar-smoking American changes a dollar at a bank and when asked how he would like it, replies

Nero
A rather drunk looking man smoking a pipe and playing an accordian sits ignoring the British pound note beside him going up in flames

A Gentle Reminder
The Dollar: Say, you two guys are looking a bit chippy; whats happened? The Sovereign & the Franc: Oh, just a bit of a scrap in France, old son: had you forgotten

Golden Grain
A satirical picture of an American reaper with a huge scythe representing the rate of exchange being sharpened with a lathe representing sterling currency

The School of Commerce, Baku, Azerbaijan

Local Government Board Offices, Whitehall, London
A view of the Local Government Boards headquarters, at the junction of Great George Street and Parliament Street, Central London

Poster advertising Victory Liberty Loans for Americans All! An honor roll lists the great and the good who have already contributed, just to shame you into it

An early Egyptian Private Banker
Pop in and speak to your own personal banker at Egypts first fully staffed cash machine doorway! A wonderful postcard depicting a money changer seated in front of his unlocked safe alongside piles of

John Pierpoint Morgan (1837 - 1913), American banker and financier, featured in The Tatler after his purchase of eight of the most important transatlantic shipping lines, including the White Star

The Tholsel / Dublin / 1817
Tholsel Houses were financial centres where people exchanged money. This Dublin building was demolished in 1809. The lower floor was used as a market

Cartoon commentary on Germanys lack of money
A cartoon commentary on Germanys lack of money after the First World War. The German man in the foreground is in rags, and has no trousers, but none of the other European powers is able to help

Bank closes its doors in Brooklyn, USA
Following the Wall Street crash of 1929, the Brooklyn branch of the Bank of the United States closes its doors. A crowd of people have gathered outside, no doubt wanting their money back

Black Friday 1869
Black Friday in the New York Gold Room

Building Society Advert
Advertisement for the National Freehold Land and Building Society featuring a man and a woman with bicycles looking admiringly at nice suburban housing

Photo, Wall Street 1929
The heart of Manhattans business district, with Trinity Church dominating the narrow street

Ullmo Degraded
French naval officer Ullmo, addicted to drugs, took to selling naval codes etc to finance his habit : here, he is being publicly stripped of his officers insignia

Emblem of the Sun Fire Office, insurance company
The emblem of the Sun Fire Office, an insurance company established in the early 18th century

New York Stock Exchange 1885
Interior view of the new New York Stock Exchange

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