Inflation. "The Street of Speculators" during the "Mississippi Bubble" when peasants all over France sold everything they had, flocked to Paris, and bought 100-par shares of gambler John Law's stocks at $3,600 apiece. Thee hunchback in foreground made $10,000 by letting people use his back as a desk

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches).
Annotation on negative.
Caption card lists some of the printing history of image.
Image source: Culver Service.
Title and other information from caption card.
Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944.
More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsaowi
Film copy on SIS roll 33, frame 1138.