Wall Street crash of 1929

Black Thursday, October 24, 1929. An Associated Press photographer caught the crowd packed onto the steps of the Sub-Treasury building, under the statue of George Washington, across the street from the New York Stock Exchange during the day's frenzied trading. The worst of the crash came five days later, on October 29. It is the right place to start: before the Depression reached farms and factories, it was a crowd of anxious faces on Wall Street waiting for news.