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Summer/August 2006 Catalog  >  Photo Collection  >  Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig

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Lot 167: Lou Gehrig Becomes Stock Broker (1929)

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Reserve: $100.00
Winning Bid: $637.58
Price Realized: $761.91
Auction Date:8/28/2006 9:00 PM EST

Lou Gehrig has just joined a Wall Street brokerage firm to become a stock broker. Interestingly enough this is only a month after Black Tuesday. This was perhaps a public relations move by Wall Street to bolster confidence in the stock market. With period stock ticker, he is joining the firm of an old Columbia University teammate shown here. International Newsreel stamp on the verso. Original paper caption. NRMT. 6x8”.

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