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Subject: Panic of 1877

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Congressional Record Testimony on the Bankruptcy of the German National Bank of Chicago, 1879Congressional Record Testimony on the Bankruptcy of the German National Bank of Chicago, 1879

Testimony from the Congressional Record concerning the bankruptcy of the German National Bank of Chicago in 1879. The document mentions numerous Jewish names and details the involvement of David S. Greenbaum and Henry Greenbaum. The description also notes the context of the Panic of 1877 and the role of Greenbaum in raising the Concordia Guards, a Jewish Civil War company, and his involvement in selling bonds to Europeans for Chicago's post-Great Fire (1871) rebuilding efforts. The archival material is located in Arc.MS.56, Box 2.

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