Photograph by Paul Thompson 



the: curb market in broad street: new york 



A section of the street is roped off, and within this area, on stirring market days, there 

 gathers one of the most wildly gesticulating crowds imaginable. They are the curb brokers, 

 who buy and sell securities, most of which are not listed by the more conservative exchanges. 

 In the squat little buildings in the foreground are the offices of many of the curb brokers, 

 and the sign-language that passes between windows and street is as eloquent in its unin- 

 telligibility to the looker-on as it is in dollars and cents to the participants. 



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