In addition to those mentioned in the Director’s Foreword, the authors are grateful to a host of people involved in the various stages of producing this book. Digging up and reproducing objects and images that tell the story of 200 years of banking requires substantial expertise in archival collections and institutional histories. For that we thank Kerri Anne Burke, Robyn Einhorn, Ira Galtman, Craig Gropper, Michele Hiltzik, Brian Lang, Becky Laughner, Janet Linde, Christine McKay, Janet Parks, Eileen Preiss, Joseph V. Scelsa, Mark Tomasko, and Richard C. Wandel. And for helping us to illustrate the recent past, we thank Joshua Moss, Maryanne Murray, and Felix Salmon. Nicholas Patrick Osborne, Eileen Preiss, and Robert E. Wright went out of their way to provide information and answer questions. Within the Museum of the City of New York, Sean Corcoran, Grace Hernandez, Phyllis Magidson, Christine Ritok, and Lindsay Turley helped locate evocative material from our collection, which Mia Moffett and Lissa Rivera captured beautifully with their photographs. At Columbia University Press, we thank Philip Leventhal for shepherding the book from the beginning, Jennifer Jerome for directing production, and Leslie Kriesel for her expert copyediting.
Jessica is grateful to the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for supporting her postdoctoral curatorial fellowship at the Museum of the City of New York. She thanks the City Museum for the opportunities to assist in curating Capital of Capital and produce a book with her superb co-author, Steve Jaffe, to bring the exhibition’s topic to a wider audience. She is indebted to her husband, Brian; her parents; and her grandparents for their unwavering encouragement and enthusiasm.
Steve would like to thank Jessica Lautin, Susan Johnson, Sarah Henry, Susan Henshaw Jones, the rest of the staff at the Museum of the City of New York, our historical advisors, and Pure + Applied for making this project as intellectually rigorous, interesting, and surprising as it turned out to be. Hopefully readers will feel the same way. He also thanks Jill, Toby, and Matt for their love, and for once again putting up with the writing process.
Steven H. Jaffe + Jessica Lautin