FRANCIS HENSHAW & CO., Auct'rs. / Stocks

by Auction, / This Day, / Wednesday,- - October 20, 1897, / At 12 o'clock, M.. /Corner Exchange Place. / Payable and transferable

$600 · Offered by Bartleby's Books

Boston: The Eastburn Press, 165 Devonshire Street, 1897. Single sheet, 24 x 6 1/2 in. Lists approximately 60 stocks and about a dozen bonds and mortgages with number of shares and par value. In pencil is written perhaps the price they achieved and of note, American Bell Telephone Co. seemed to have achieved the highest bid against the par value. The panic of 1893 began what was called the Great Depression until it would cede that title to a later panic. It

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