Lehman, Durr & Co., ca. 1874

The offices of Lehman, Durr and Co. in downtown Montgomery, ca. 1874. The company formed in 1862 when Mayer Lehman and John Wesley Durr merged their cotton brokerages. The company eventually expanded into a major global banking firm that declared bankruptcy in 2008.

Lehman Brothers store in Montgomery, Alabama
Photograph from Herbert H. Lehman Papers, Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University
Lehman Brothers store in Montgomery, Alabama