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Acknowledgments
Production Credits
PROJECT TEAM
Duane Wall—Editor-in-Chief Humphrey Keenlyside—Writer Mikki Mahan—Editorial Adviser Robin Colangelo—Design Leader
EDITORIAL BOARD
Wendell Maddrey Maureen Donovan George Crozer Francis Fitzherbert-Brockholes Ian Forrester Gene Goodwillie Eberhard Meincke
DESIGN
Kim Robak Lillian Martinez Rob Reade Patricia Turken James Ligi Katerina Barry
LEGAL REVIEW
Phil Schaeffer Stefan Mentzer Jennifer Paradise
RESEARCH
Ruth Armstrong Kerri Spennicchia Roseann Cook Sheree Williams Fernanda Giusti Murphy Fogelnest
COPY EDITORS
Vivian Fransen Bernice Holtzman
PRINTED BY
Brilliant Graphics
Digital Version By
Readz
Image Credits
IMAGE
Looking down Wall Street from Broadway
CREDIT/RIGHTS
The New York Public Library [NYPL], Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations
IMAGE
Wall Street, 1911
CREDIT/RIGHTS
Picture Collection, NYPL, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations
IMAGE
Henry Ford in his first automobile, 1896
CREDIT/RIGHTS
© Getty Images/Hulton Archive/Stringer
IMAGE
A woman working in a munitions factory during World War I, 1916
CREDIT/RIGHTS
Getty Images, photograph by FPG/Staff
IMAGE
Bankers Trust Company building, 16 Wall Street, New York, May 1912
CREDIT/RIGHTS
Picture Collection, NYPL, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations
IMAGE
Erie Railway, Nyack Station, Rockland County, New York, 1916
CREDIT/RIGHTS
LOC, Prints & Photographs Division, HAER NY, 44-NYACK, 1—1
IMAGE
President Woodrow Wilson with the original Word War I American Red Cross War Council, 1917
CREDIT/RIGHTS
© Harris & Amp Ewing/National Geographic Society/CORBIS
IMAGE
Governor’s inspection of the Palisades, 1924
CREDIT/RIGHTS
Courtesy of Palisades Interstate Park Commission [PIPC] archives
IMAGE
Palisades Interstate Park under construction, 1940
CREDIT/RIGHTS
Courtesy of New Jersey/Palisades Interstate Park Commission [NJPIPC] archives
IMAGE
Palisades Interstate Park under construction, 1940
CREDIT/RIGHTS
Courtesy of NJPIPC archives
IMAGE
Memorandum about the squeeze play
CREDIT/RIGHTS
Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library ybb 894 v.6
IMAGE
The Yale Bulldogs, 1894
CREDIT/RIGHTS
LOC, General Collections
IMAGE
Harry Davison, 1913
CREDIT/RIGHTS
LOC, Prints & Photographs Division, photograph by Harris & Ewing, LC-DIG-hec-01992
IMAGE
Charles Whittlesey, 1918. Certificate and Congressional Medal of Honor awarded to Lt. Col. (then Major) Charles W. Whittlesey, 77th Division 308th Infantry, World War I
CREDIT/RIGHTS
Williams College Archives and Special Collections
IMAGE
Bankers Trust building
CREDIT/RIGHTS
© Hazel Hankin
IMAGE
A view of Wall Street from Broadway with Bankers Trust building on the left, 1936
CREDIT/RIGHTS
Photography Collection, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs, NYPL, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations, photograph by Berenice Abbott
IMAGE
Bankers Trust Company
CREDIT/RIGHTS
Milstein Division of United States History, Local History & Genealogy, NYPL, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations, photograph by F. S. Lincoln
IMAGE
Stock market crash, October 29, 1929
CREDIT/RIGHTS
© Bettmann/CORBIS
IMAGE
The Great Depression
CREDIT/RIGHTS
Everett Collection/SuperStock
IMAGE
U.S. Steel Corporation’s Fairless Works, Morrisville, Pennsylvania
CREDIT/RIGHTS
© Bettmann/CORBIS
IMAGE
Advertisements for Armour & Company and Swift & Company,
The Outlook Magazine
, 1916
CREDIT/RIGHTS
© Bettmann/CORBIS; Wikimedia Commons/Google Books
IMAGE
Hog Island Shipyard, Pennsylvania, 1918
CREDIT/RIGHTS
© CORBIS
IMAGE
The “Irving S. Olds,” Ore Boat, U.S. Steel Gary Works, 1944
CREDIT/RIGHTS
Courtesy of Calumet Regional Archives/Indiana University Northwest, photograph by Paul Shafer
IMAGE
Myron Taylor
CREDIT/RIGHTS
Portrait of Myron Charles Taylor by Frank O. Salisbury, photographed by Peter A. Juley & Son. Deceased Alumni Files, Collection #41-2-877, Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library. Photograph from the Peter Juley & Son Collection Smithsonian Art Museum J0056602. Painting by Frank O. Salisbury, © 2014 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/DACS, London
IMAGE
Life
Magazine article about the sale of the Empire State Building in 1951
CREDIT/RIGHTS
From
LIFE
magazine, January 7, 1952; text © Time Inc., photo by Jack Frank
IMAGE
Gene Corey, a news building guard, reads the front page of the New York
Daily News
in the summer of 1975
CREDIT/RIGHTS
© Bettmann/CORBIS
IMAGE
U.S. Steel executives
CREDIT/RIGHTS
Photo by Lofman/Pix Inc./Time Life Pictures/Getty Images
IMAGE
Boris Chaliapin's illustration of Roger Blough appeared on the cover of
Time
magazine, July 20, 1959
CREDIT/RIGHTS
Used under license from
Time
magazine, 7/20 © 1959 Time Inc.
IMAGE
Construction of the “Roger Blough” began in 1968 by the American Ship Building Company of Lorain, Ohio
CREDIT/RIGHTS
The Charles E. Frohman Collection/Hayes Presidential Center
IMAGE
"The Good Argument " by Honoré- Victor Daumier, 19th century
CREDIT/RIGHTS
© Burstein Collection/CORBIS
IMAGE
U.S. Steel blast furnace, Clairton, Pennsylvania
CREDIT/RIGHTS
LOC, Prints & Photographs Division, HAER PA, 2-CLAIR, 1A—4
IMAGE
Legal Aid Society’s Orison S. Marden Awards
CREDIT/RIGHTS
Award courtesy of The Legal Aid Society, bronze, 3.5 in. x 3.5 in.
IMAGE
Place Vendôme, Paris, 1918
CREDIT/RIGHTS
© No credit given/National Geographic Society/ CORBIS
IMAGE
Oil booster plant, Sumatra, Indonesia, 1971
CREDIT/RIGHTS
© Ted Streshinsky/CORBIS
IMAGE
Fall of the berlin wall, 1989
CREDIT/RIGHTS
Photograph by Steve Eason/Hulton Archive/Getty Images
IMAGE
London office
CREDIT/RIGHTS
Photograph by Andy Lane
IMAGE
Saudi Aramco's complex at Ras Tanura, one of the world's largest crude oil terminals
CREDIT/RIGHTS
Courtesy Saudi Aramco
IMAGE
Bontang LNG Plant F Train construction
CREDIT/RIGHTS
Photography by John J. Cullen
IMAGE
Machu Picchu, the 15th-century Inca site in Peru
CREDIT/RIGHTS
Wikimedia Commons, photo courtesy/by Fabricio Guzmán
IMAGE
Barbarians at the Gate: The fall of RJR Nabisco
by Bryan Burrough and John Yelyar
CREDIT/RIGHTS
Book cover from BARBARIANS AT THE GATE: THE FALL OF RJR NABISCO, Copyright © 1990 by Bryan Burrough and John Helyar, reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers
IMAGE
President Barack Obama announcing the government bailout of Chrysler, April 2009
CREDIT/RIGHTS
© Gerald Herbert/AP/CORBIS
IMAGE
View of the Palisades in winter, Hudson River, near Alpine, New Jersey, 1916
CREDIT/RIGHTS
© J.B. Allison/National Geographic Society/CORBIS
IMAGE
Vintage postcard of the Palisades
CREDIT/RIGHTS
Post Card Collection of the Englewood Public Library/Englewood Historical Society
IMAGE
Metropolitan Opera House, 1954
CREDIT/RIGHTS
© Bettmann/CORBIS
IMAGE
Rendering of Bhutan’s future Royal Institute of Law
CREDIT/RIGHTS
© Royal Institute of Law Project Office, 2016
Timeline:
IMAGE AT YEAR
1903
CREDIT/RIGHTS
Library of Congress (LOC), Prints & Photographs Division, LC-DIG-ppprs-00626, photograph by Wilber Wright, Orville Wright, John T. Daniels
IMAGE AT YEAR
1939
CREDIT/RIGHTS
Popperfoto/Getty Images
IMAGE AT YEAR
1941
CREDIT/RIGHTS
U.S. National Archives and Records Administration [USNARA], Franklin D. Roosevelt Library Public Domain Photographs, 1882–1962
IMAGE AT YEAR
1963
CREDIT/RIGHTS
Courtesy of Abbie Rowe White House Photographs, John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston
IMAGE AT YEAR
1969
CREDIT/RIGHTS
National Aeronautics and Space Administration [NASA], photo by Commander, Astronaut Neil Armstrong
IMAGE AT YEAR
1979
CREDIT/RIGHTS
Popperfoto/Getty Images, Rolls Press/Popperfoto/Contributor
IMAGE AT YEAR
1990
CREDIT/RIGHTS
© Peter Turnley/CORBIS
IMAGE AT YEAR
2013
CREDIT/RIGHTS
Courtesy of Silverstein Properties, photograph by Joe Woolhead
IMAGE AT YEAR
2007
CREDIT/RIGHTS
Hugh Verrier photograph by Matt Greenslade
All other images are courtesy of the White & Case Archives.
IMAGE
Global partner meeting Washington, D.C., 2012
CREDIT/RIGHTS
Photograph by Matt Greenslade
IMAGE
The four heads of White & Case from 1976 to present
CREDIT/RIGHTS
Photograph by Matt Greenslade
IMAGE
Spindletop Oil Field, Beaumont, Texas, 1911
CREDIT/RIGHTS
© ClassicStock/Corbis
IMAGE
Harry Davison at his desk
CREDIT/RIGHTS
Library of Congress [LOC], Prints & Photographs Division, photograph by Harris & Ewing, LC-DIG-hec-13886
IMAGE
Macdonough’s victory on lake champlain, 1814
CREDIT/RIGHTS
Original hand-colored etching from the Irving S. Olds collection of naval prints given to the firm by Olds
IMAGE
American Red Cross poster, 1918
CREDIT/RIGHTS
© Swim Ink 2, LLC/CORBIS, American Red Cross Poster illustration by Harrison C. Fisher
IMAGE
DuPratt White
CREDIT/RIGHTS
Courtesy of PIPC archives
IMAGE
U.S. Steel, Clairton Works, Blast Furnace Blowing Engine Building, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania
CREDIT/RIGHTS
LOC, Prints & Photographs Division, HAER, HAER PA, 2-CLAIR, 1A—1
IMAGE
The Wall Street Journal
headline on the purchase of a portion of the Empire State Building in 2016
CREDIT/RIGHTS
From
The Wall Street Journal
, August 23, 2016; text © Dow Jones & Company, Inc.
IMAGE
The Great Salad Oil Swindle
by Norman C. Miller
CREDIT/RIGHTS
© Victor Gollancz, London, 1966, courtesy of The Orion Publishing Group, London