Susie J. Pak History, St. John’s University Combining Historical Empirical Data with the Study of...

Susie J. PakHistory, St. John’s University

Combining Historical Empirical Data with the Study of Networks: Rethinking Anglo-American and German-Jewish

Cooperation Before the First World War

University of Illinois, Urbana-ChampaignMarch 27, 2013

Please do not use slides without permissionpaks1@stjohns.edu

Information on Maps• Environmental Data Resources:

– www.edrnet.com– Sanborn Fire Insurance maps– Historical New York City map data married to UTM (Universal

Transverse Mercator)– Translated to LAT/LONG coordinates

• ArcGIS:– Produced by ESRI– www.esri.com– New York City Planning Department “Bytes of the Big Apple”– www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/html/bytes/applbyte.shtml

Information on Maps• Dataset for ArcGIS:– Residential and business addresses of private and

commercial bankers, New York

• J.P. Morgan & Co., Kuhn, Loeb & Co., First National Bank of New York, National City Bank of New York, J.&W. Seligman & Co., Speyer & Co., sample of leading partners/executives of banks between 1900 and 1920 that were co-managers of Morgans’ syndicates

– Sources: The Social Register, New York; the U.S. Census; Who’s Who in America; The Rand-McNally Bankers’ Directory and List of Attorneys

– See www.hathitrust.org

Figure 1: J.P. Morgan & Co. partners’ residences, 1910

Figure 2: Street Close-up of J.P. Morgan & Co. partners’ residences, 1910

Figure 3: Names close-up of J.P. Morgan & Co. partners’ residences, 1910

Figure 4: J.P. Morgan & Co. partners’ residences & sample of Pierpont Morgan’s social

Clubs, 1910

J.P. Morgan & Co. and Kuhn, Loeb & Co. partners’ residences, 1910

Figure 5: J.P. Morgan & Co. and Kuhn, Loeb & Co. partners’ residences, 1910

J.P. Morgan & Co. syndicate co-managers’ businesses, 1900

J.P. Morgan & Co. syndicate partner sample, 1900 and 1925

J.P. Morgan & Co. syndicate partner sample, 1900

J.P. Morgan & Co. syndicate partner sample, 1925

J.P. Morgan & Co. and Kuhn, Loeb & Co. residences with JPM & Co. syndicate

partner sample, pre-1910