Stock Market Crash of 1929

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Stock Market Crash of 1929


Assignment:    Stock market crash of 1929:  information about the causes of the stock market crash of 1929, the depression that followed it,and what safeguards are in place to prevent a recurrence.    (BECON 301, 4 May 2001)
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Foster Business Library Reference Collection:

    The Foster Reference Collection is located behind the Reference Desk in Foster.

  • Great events from history II : business and commerce series.
    This five-volume chronological encyclopedia is devoted to the history of business and economic events of the twentieth century worlwide, starting with the first publication of the Dow Jones Industrial Average in 1897 and continuing up to the effective date of NAFTA in 1994. This set includes indexes by chronology, an alphabetic list of events, a subject-keyword index, a category index, a geographic index, and an index by person.
    Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HC55 .G68 1994.

    See volume two, pages 574 to 578, for U.S. stock market crashes on Black Tuesday; see also, in the same volume, The Securities Exchange Act Establishes the SEC, pages 679 to 684 for more about the crash and efforts to prevent its recurrence.

  • Gale encyclopedia of U.S. economic history.
    This two-volume encyclopedia covers economic history from Paleolithic times to the present of 1999, with just over 1,000 articles on the major terms, overviews, issues, biographies, events and companies of America's economic history. There is a single extensive index in the back of the second volume.
    Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HC102 .G35 1999.

    See index page 1233 in volume two for eleven references to the Stock market crash of 1929, including an article on its causes in volume two on page 964. See a much more extensive index listing for the Great Depression on index pages 1185 to 1186.

  • The encyclopedia of American business history.
    This two-volume encyclopedia covers American business history in an A to Z format (rather than chronological), in 400 essay-form entries, each with a bibliography. A chronology of American business history may be found in volume two, starting on page 491.
    Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HF3021 .G44 2006.

    See pages 415 and 416 in volume two for references to the Stock market crash of 1929.

  • A financial history of the United States.
    This three-volume encyclopedia covers U.S. financial history from 1492 to 2001, with a combination of "broad stroke history and lively anecdote," written single-handed by a law professor at the University of North Carolina.
    Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HG181 .M297 2001.

    See volume two, chapter three, for The Crash; see pages 148 to 159 for The Stock Market Crash of 1929, with subsequent chapters covering the Depression.

  • The Federal Reserve System: an encyclopedia
    This single volume encyclopedia covers both the U.S. Federal Reserve System and banks and banking in the U.S., with topical indexes and essays on a wide variety of topics, from A to Z., including crises, bank failures, depression, and banking terms and concepts.
    Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HG2563 .H235 2005.

    See Black Monday, 1929 on page 31; the The Great Crash on pages 169 to 171; and the Great Depression on pages 171 to 178.

  • The Coopers & Lybrand SEC manual.
    This 1,000 plus page paperback is one of the most authoritative sources for SEC rules and regulations, covering both formal and informal requirements of SEC practice and compliance procedures.
    Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: KF1444 .M87 1997.

    See pages eight and following on the Securities Act of 1933, enacted following the stock market crash of 1929.

Foster Business Library Books:

    The Foster Business Library maintains a collection of over 70,000 books on all business topics, including many books useful for country research. To identify relevant books, go to the UW Libraries Catalog on the Foster Business Library homepage (under Business Databases). Try searching by keyword. Use the Limit/Sort feature to create a list of books in the Foster Business Library and in order from newest book to oldest. To do so, use the pulldown menu under WHERE item is located to specify Foster Business Library and click on the box near the bottom Sort results by year. Then click on Limit/sort items retrieved using above data. Clicking on the titles in the resulting list will bring up the full catalog record, indicating which Foster area has the book (general stacks, reference, reserve, etc.), the call number and the circulation status.

    Circulation status is indicated in the box in the middle of each online catalog record, on the right. Check Shelf indicates that the book should be on the shelves under that call number and available for you to check out. Due and a date indicates that the book is already checked out to someone and is due back on the date indicated.

    The Foster general stacks collection is located south of the main part of the Foster Business Library, through the two pass-throughs into the basement of Balmer. The arrangement is by call number, from A (at the east end, near the Copy Center) to Z (at the far west end).

    A keyword search for 1929 crash retrieved just one record, for a book with a chapter on the 1929 crash and the Great Depression. A Keyword search for the Great Depression retrieved a list of over 250 records, in the UW Libraries. Limiting this search to the Foster Business Library cut the list to just four records.

    The main LC Subject for the 1929 crash appears to be Depressions -- 1929 -- United States; an LC Subject search for this term produced a list of more than 160 records, with six records in the Foster Business Library collections.

Foster Business Library Articles:

    In addition to the 800 journals in the Foster Business Library Periodicals Collection, the Foster Business Library offers access to 11,000 full text periodical articles through its full text article databases such as: ABI/Inform Global, Factiva, and Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe. These article databases may be found on the Foster Business Library homepage, listed alphabetically under Business Databases or in the Articles: Full Text folder.

    Of these three main sources, all but Factiva are available from any computer on the campus network (as well as from home) via the UW Connectivity Kit or via the Libraries' proxy server. The easiest of these databases to use is ABI/Inform Global. For more information about accessing Foster Business Library databases from off campus, click here. For more information about business databases, click here.

  • ABI/Inform Global:

    This database offers full text articles for over 800 journals. To find articles on specific topics, search by word or phrase by keying your search phrase into the search box. ABI/Inform Global includes journals but not national or Washington state newspapers (though the Wall Street Journal is included). It also does not include valuable trade and industry and other periodicals. Your searches will span the widest possible array of publications by expanding your search to all databases in ABI/Inform. Your searches will span the widest possible array of publications by searching in all databases in ABI/Inform. To expand your search to include all collections in this database, click on Select multiple databases, to the right of the search box; click next on Select all databases, in the upper left of the display.

    Your search terms will be highlighted in red in each article. For tips on searching this database, click here.

    For instance, a search for articles with the phrase "Stock Market Crash and 1929" in them, in citations and abstracts, retrieved over 1,000 articles, searching in all databases, including over 35 articles in scholarly journals, 80 magazine articles, over 160 articles in trade and industry publications, and over 700 newspaper articles.

    Changing the search to "Stock Market Crash and 1929 and Safeguards" cut the number of articles to just eleven, searching in citations and abstracts. Using More Search Options to expand the search to the full text of all articles produced a list of 20 articles.

    As an example, see "Is Crash of '29 destined to repeat? " (Seattle Times, October 28, 2004, by Michael Martinez, Associated Press)

    It's also possible to search for this subject in Topic Guide. A search for SUB(Stock Market Crashes) produced a list of over 1,400 articles; a search for SUB(Stock Market Crashes)and 1929 produced a list of over 120 articles.

    A similar search for SUB(Great Depression) produced a list of over 350 articles.

Help:

4 May 2001; updated 28 December 2006.   Peter Stevens, Business Librarian,stevens@u.washington.edu.