["The street of the speculators" during the "Mississippi Bubble", when peasants all over France sold everything they had, flocked to Paris, and bought 100 dollar-par shares of gambler John Law's stocks at 3,600 apiece. The hunchback in the foreground made 10,000 dollars by letting people use his back as a desk]

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["The street of the speculators" during the "Mississippi Bubble", when peasants all over France sold everything they had, flocked to Paris, and bought 100 dollar-par shares of gambler John Law's stocks at 3,600 apiece. The hunchback in the foreground made 10,000 dollars by letting people use his back as a desk]

Digital ID: (digital file from b&w film copy neg.) cph 3a42531 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3a42531
Reproduction Number: LC-USZ62-42209 (b&w film copy neg.)
Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

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