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Knowledge and Library Services, Harvard Business School announces the opening of "Bubbles, Panics & Crashes: A Century of Financial Crises, 1830s-1930s," an exhibition organized by Baker Library Historical Collections. The exhibition will run from November 10, 2009 through May, 2010 in the North Lobby, Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Harvard Business School. This exhibition takes the one-year anniversary of the subprime mortgage crisis as an occasion to revisit four financial crises that occurred in an earlier, particularly volatile century of economic history. In 1837, 1873, 1907, and 1929, asset price bubbles burst, shattering public confidence and devastating financial, securities, and credit markets in the United States and around the world. In most cases, full recovery took years. These four crises were so far-reaching that they affected virtually everyone involved in the U. S. market economy. Yet each was so complex that their causes and consequences remain subjects of debate generations later. The exhibit and the accompanying website offer an introduction to these four historical crises, as well as highlight avenues and materials for further research. Historical materials like those held at Baker Library allow historians and economists to better understand these interconnected and multi-causal phenomena. On a human level, letters, diaries, memoirs, and images reveal the voices, actions, and experiences of those who played a role in instigating a crisis, those who suffered its ill effects, and those who seized an opportunity to profit from the sudden and dramatic change in circumstances. On a macroeconomic level, historical material, like that found in decades-long series of trade publications, can also yield extensive data that illuminate underlying conditions of which contemporaries may have been unaware. Visit http://www.library.hbs.edu/hc/crises/<http://www.library.hbs.edu/hc/crises/index.html> to learn more about the history of financial crises, to find materials in Baker Library Historical Collections that could support further research, and to view some of the items featured in this exhibition. Please contact Baker Library Historical Collections at histcollref@hbs.edu<mailto:histcollref@hbs.edu%3cmailto:histcollref@hbs.edu> if you would like to request a copy of the exhibition catalog. For more information about Baker Library Historical Collections visit www.library.hbs.edu/hc/<file:///C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\mmurphy\Local%20Settings\Temporary%20Internet%20Files\Content.Outlook\DVK0723T\www.library.hbs.edu\hc\>. Melissa A Murphy Baker Library Historical Collections Knowledge and Library Services
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