William Collins Whitney was an American political leader and financier and a prominent member of the Whitney family. He served as Secretary of the Navy in the first administration of President Grover
Secretary of the Navy William C. Whitney in his office (circa 1885)
William C. Whitney House, 871 Fifth Avenue, New York City
Charles Tracy Barney was an American banker who was the president of the Knickerbocker Trust Company, the collapse of which shortly before Barney's death sparked the Panic of 1907.
The headquarters of the Knickerbocker Trust Company in 1905, at the corner of 5th Avenue and 34th Street