    
Title: Hetty Green Description: Hetty Green (Henrietta Howland Robinson Green; AKA: Hetty; The Witch of Wall Street; November 21, 1834-July 3, 1916), American businesswoman and the first American woman to impact Wall Street through shrewd investments in railroads, real estate and small but lucrative manufacturing firms, which also made her a leading but secret industrialist; she is shown walking through New York's financial district in 1900, allegedly carrying millions of dollars in large denominations beneath her long black skirt; she was known for her miserliness, reportedly dying of apoplexy at age eighty-one while arguing over the price of skimmed milk with one of her maids in her New York City mansion in 1916; she left an estate of between $100-$200 million (several billion in today's money); Category: Society Topic: Rich and Famous Keywords: American business leaders, American industrialists, American manufacturers, misers, railroads, railways, real estate, skinflints, stock investments, Wall Street. Orientation: Vertical Dimensions: 1140 x 2767 (3.15 MPixels) (2.43) Print Size: 9.7 x 23.4 cm; 3.8 x 9.2 inches File Size: 9.04 MB (9,474,438 Bytes) Resolution: 300 x 300 dpi Color Depth: 16.7 million (24 BitsPerPixel) Compression: None Image Number: 0000033006 Source: Jay Robert Nash Collection |
