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Engraving by William Henry Bartlett shows the imposing facadeof the Second Bank of the United States on Chestnut Street inPhiladelphia in the 1820s. (Photo by Kean Collection/Getty Images)
Engraving by William Henry Bartlett shows the imposing facadeof the Second Bank of the United States on Chestnut Street inPhiladelphia in the 1820s. (Photo by Kean Collection/Getty Images)