Bibliography

Archival Sources

Our research into the events of 1907 drew on diaries, letters, cables, memoranda, notes, newspaper clippings, and memoirs in the following archives:

  • Benjamin Strong Papers, Federal Reserve Bank of New York, New York.
  • George W. Perkins Papers, Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University, New York, New York.
  • Herbert L. Satterlee Papers, Morgan Library and Museum, New York, New York.
  • J. S. Morgan & Company Papers, Guildhall Library, London, United Kingdom.
  • Morgan Grenfell & Company Papers, Guildhall Library, London, United Kingdom.
  • Morgan Family Papers, Morgan Library and Museum, New York, New York.
  • Thomas W. Lamont Papers, Baker Library, Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration, Boston, Massachusetts.
  • Frank A. Vanderlip Papers, Butler Library, Columbia University, New York, New York.
  • Otto C. Heinze Papers, Butte‐Silver Bow Public Archives, Butte, Montana.

Contemporary Accounts

Five periodicals provided an excellent stream of contemporary reporting and opinion:

  1. Commercial and Financial Chronicle, Volume 84, 1907
  2. New York Times, 1897–1913
  3. Wall Street Journal, 1897–1913
  4. Washington Post, 1897–1913
  5. Chicago Daily Tribune, 1897–1913

For a factual perspective on life in the first decade of the twentieth century, we consulted Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th ed. (1910), Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

Contemporary accounts were supplemented by histories and biographical accounts written by contemporary observers of the ...

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