The Auction System in the Port of New York, 1817–1837

Ira Cohen

Business History Review, 1971, vol. 45, issue 4, 488-510

Abstract: Professor Cohen recounts the operations of the famed auction system in New York, suggesting reasons for its success in the years after the War of 1812 and its decline in the decade of the 1830's.

Date: 1971
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