October 29, 1929, is a date Wall Street investors and, indeed, America and the world at large would rather forget. In just one day, some 16 million shares were traded on the New York Stock Exchange. Billions of dollars were lost, and one of the country's worst financial crisis soon followed—the Great Depression of 1929–39.
In this gallery, we revisit the stock market crash of 1929. Click on to see the images of that day.