EH.T: Re: EH.T: Museum of American Financial History

================= EH.TEACH POSTING ================= > Today's Wall Street Journal (i.e. for Thurs. Oct.29, 1998) > makes reference in the Business Bulletin feature on the front > page to the Museum of American Financial History. It was regarding > the return of a bust of John D. Rockefeller to the lobby of > the Standard Oil Building. Could anyone provide any more > information about the Museum of American Financial History. > I suspect it is in New York City, but would like to know more > about it. I am posting this to eh.teach because the Museum might > be of interest for teaching purposes. Perhaps it even has a website. Yes, it's in lower Manhattan, in the basement of the old Standard Oil building, at 28 Broadway. A previous WSJ article (May 29, 1998, page W9) describes it at greater length. "Modest but arresting" is one of the descriptions. "By its nature," the article states, "the museum relies heavily on documents and engraved stocks and bonds," including one of the first-ever Treasury bonds, issued in 1792 to George Washington. No idea if they have a web site, but a quick Alta Vista search could probably answer that question. rsd ***************************************************** Ranjit S. Dighe at home: Assistant Professor 41 W. 4th St. Department of Economics Oswego, NY 13126 Mahar Hall 315-342-5383 SUNY-Oswego Oswego, NY 13126 315-341-3480 Fax: 315-341-5444 E-mail: dighe@oswego.edu Home page: http://www.oswego.edu/~dighe/ "I'm not the cat I used to be I got a kid, I'm 33, baby!" -- C. Hynde ***************************************************** ============ FOOTER TO EH.TEACH POSTING ============ For information, send the message "info EH.TEACH" to lists@eh.net. >