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Lower Manhattan's Financial District, seen from the Brooklyn Heights Promenade, 2025.
Lower Manhattan seen across the Hudson River from Jersey City, 2016.
The New York Stock Exchange on Broad Street, 2015.
Headquarters of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Washington, D.C., 2008.
Where Wall Street meets Broad Street: the New York Stock Exchange and Federal Hall, 2017.
A Lockheed Aircraft Company stock certificate for 100 shares, issued in 1929.
Kiewit Plaza, Omaha, Nebraska, 2010. Berkshire Hathaway kept its head office in this building for decades.
An electronic stock quote board in Yaesu, Tokyo, 2007.
Crowds outside the New York Stock Exchange during the crash of October 1929.
Federal Hall on Wall Street, 2017.
The Chicago Board of Trade Building on LaSalle Street, completed in 1930.
The main room of the Tokyo Stock Exchange, 2018.
A Wall Street sign in Lower Manhattan, 2011.
An apothecary's balance with brass pans and a set of weights in a wooden case.
Flags outside the New York Stock Exchange on Wall Street.
A share certificate of the Stockton and Darlington Railway, issued in 1823.
Punched record cards in storage at the Federal Records Center in Alexandria, Virginia, 1959.
An Edison stock ticker in the collection of the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History.
SEC headquarters at 100 F Street NE, Washington, D.C.
Tosho Arrows, the market center of the Tokyo Stock Exchange, 2008.
An early 20th century Omega pocket watch.
The Manhattan skyline from Upper New York Bay, 2023.
A 19th century American balance scale in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
The name of the New York Stock Exchange carved above its Broad Street columns.
A Pepsi Cola Company stock certificate issued to Caleb Bradham in 1922.
The Chicago Board of Trade Building, Chicago.
A Fox Film Corporation stock certificate signed by William Fox, 1925.
An 1863 stock certificate of the American Bank Note Company.
The Nasdaq MarketSite in Times Square, 2021.
An open card catalog drawer in the library of the United Nations Office at Geneva.
Passersby watch an electronic stock board near Tokyo Station, 2009.
A wooden card catalog in a public library in Nashua, New Hampshire.