I just remembered a resource I found a few years ago relating to the South Sea Bubble. The website is managed by the Baker Library at Harvard Business School, part of the Kress Collection, titled, Sunk in Lucre's Sordid Charms. Oh, it was sordid alright. The website is pretty cool. There is limited access, however, to documents and images, provided you are not a Harvard University student, but what is available is pretty neat.
The website offers a brief history of the South Sea Company and the causes of the stock-job pop. There is also a very useful and bright essay by Christopher Reed ("The Damn'd South Sea") available on the website that is illuminated by contemporary documents and images, published in Harvard Magazine (June 1999). The website also marshals many German and Dutch woodcuts and renditions. The pop of the South Sea Bubble reverberated loudly in English history, preceded in kind only by the Mississippi Bubble of John Law.
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