Cut-throat business in Wall Street. How the inexperienced lose their heads By Joseph Ferdinand Keppler,...

Cut-throat business in Wall Street. How the inexperienced lose their heads By Joseph Ferdinand Keppler, 1838-1894, artist. Date 1881. print shows William H. Vanderbilt, Jay Gould, Russell Sage and James R. Keene checking ticker tape connected to a large straight-edge razor labelled "Wade in & Butcher'em" and "This Indicator Rises & Falls with Stocks" with a bear and a bull and several money bags labelled "$" balanced on the back of the blade; below, draped over the handle are many investors reaching for bundles of "Pacific Mail, Western Union, [and] Erie" stocks, the blade is poised to drop. In the background another group of investors labelled "The Lambs Brigade" are headed into the "N.Y. Stock Exchange".