Ed O'Connor's Trader's Jacket
notes: label: Description
content: Wearing his loudly patterned 44 long jacket Edmund O’Connor was easy to spot – an important trait for a commodity trader. O’Connor (1925–2011) was a commodity trading pioneer who helped computerize and change trading systems. He started out as a commodity speculator at the Chicago Board of Trade. Successful, he eventually led the market away from traditional commodities and into bigger and more volatile derivatives. He then moved the commodities markets away from the open outcry system to electronic trading. The digitization of the markets in the late 1990s opened the door for the use of mathematical-model decision-making and high-frequency trading
place: label: place made
content: United States: Illinois, Chicago
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content: American Enterprise
label: Exhibition
content: American Enterprise
label: Exhibition Location
content: National Museum of American History
publisher: label: Related Publication
content: Sewer, Andy; Allison, David; Liebhold, Peter; Davis, Nancy; Franz, Kathleen G.. American Enterprise: A History of Business in America
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Edmund O'Connor Family through Martin O'Connor
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2013.0271.01
label: accession number
content: 2013.0271
label: catalog number
content: 2013.0271.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: jacket
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: 65% polyester (fabric material)
label: Physical Description
content: green (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: white (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: blue (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: red (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: 35% cotton (fabric material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 34 1/2 in x 55 in x 1 in; 87.63 cm x 139.7 cm x 2.54 cm
label: Measurements
content: chest: 24 in; 60.96 cm