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Knickerbocker Trust: 1904
New York, 1904. "Knickerbocker Trust Company Building, Fifth Avenue and 34th Street." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Photographic Company. View full size.
Yes, It is electric
The car in question seems to be a 1903-04 Woods Landaulette.
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Unwise speculation in the price of copper by bank President Charles T. Barney, who was using bank funds in an attempt to corner the market, led to a run on this bank three years later that triggered the Panic of 1907. Barney took his own life a few weeks later, an action that more recent perpetrators of financial malfeasance have simply replaced with a barrage of denials and attorneys.
Neighbours of the Waldorf
at the opposite corner.
The Knickerbocker Trust became a central player in the Panic of 1907, which led to the suicide of its president Charles T. Barney.
Still there, sort of
They took off the top balustrade, added on a bunch of stories and slapped on a facade. Stanford White's beautiful building (look at that frieze!) is under there somewhere.
By the way, can anyone identify that car? Is that an early electric?
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