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Title: [Schuylkill Navigation Company stock certificate]
Description: Shows canal, lock, and bridge., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, with corrections., Philadelphia on Stone
Date: Feb. 14, 1874
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Philadelphia Certificates - Transportation [P.9408.12]

Title: United States Plate Glass Insurance Co. of Philadelphia [certificate]
Description: Stock certificate for the company "chartered by the legislature of Pennsylvania 1867" containing an allegorical vignette depicting the seal of Pennsylvania as a scenic view. View includes horses, the American eagle, and cityscape and a steam boat in the background. Certificate also contains pictorial details, including filigree and scrolls, and a decorative border. The company, later renamed the United States Liability Insurance Company of Philadelphia, was in operation until 1941 before remaining dormant until 1951., Printed in border: Shares $100 Each., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: [ca. 1867]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Specimens Album [P.9349.236a]

Title: Steel's Bay Printing Company [certificate]
Description: Stock certificate containing a view of the printing company in "Camden Co. New Jersey." View shows the factory building, including smokestacks and a tank, along a riverbank. Men in a rowboat and a sailboat are visible on the water in the foreground. Certificate also contains pictorial details deisgned as frames surrounding printed text and a space for a stamp. Details include flowers, scrolls, and filigree., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: [ca. 1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Specimens Album [P.9349.237b]

Title: Pennsylvania Building Block Co. [certificate]
Description: Stock certificate containing an allegorical vignette depicting the seal of Pennsylvania as a scenic view. View includes horses, the American eagle, and cityscape and a steam boat in the background. Certificate also contains pictorial details, including filigree, flowers, and a ribbon, and a decorative border., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Leonhardt relocated his establishment to 114 South Third Street in 1868.
Date: [ca. 1868]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Specimens Album [P.9349.235a]

Title: The North Philadelphia Plank Road Company [stock certificate]
Description: Stock certificate containing a vignette of a horse-drawn carriage and wagon traveling on a road near a country estate and a pictorial element of "textured" filigree surrounding the incorporation date. Company incorporated 1852 to build a toll road linking South Penn Township and Germantown., Issued to Samuel Welsh for ten shares on June 11, 1857. Signed by Jno. Welsh, president; and Jas. Stuber, treasurer., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 153, Gift of Mrs. Nicholas B. Wainwright.
Date: [ca. 1855]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Philadelphia Certificates - Transportation [P.9408.3]

Title: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society [certificate] Horticultural Hall stock
Description: Stock certificate containing the Pennsylvania coat of arms; an allegorical figure representing horticulture; an arrangement of flowers; and ornamental stamp and border. Issued in 1865 and 1866 to raise funds for the construction of a hall for the society on Broad Street between Spruce and Locust Streets. The hall, designed by Philadelphia architect Samuel Sloan, was completed in 1867., Not in Wainwright., Issued to Samuel Welsh for ten shares purchased for a total of $500 on November 7, 1866. Signed by W. L. Schaffer, president; and Henry A. Drew, treasurer., Contains blindstamp of the illustrated seal of the Horticultural Society of Pennsylvania. Illustrated with a man plunging a shovel into the dirt., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 165, Gift of Mrs. Nicholas B. Wainwright.
Date: [1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Philadelphia Certificates - Organizations [P.9408.10]

Title: The Philadelphia & Chester Valley Railroad Company
Description: Stock certificate for the railroad chartered in 1850 as the Chester Valley Railroad Company. Contains central vignette showing a train, including a "U.S. Mail" car, traveling through countryside. A steamboat travels on a river in the background. Company reincorporated as Philadelphia and Chester Valley Railroad company in 1888. The train operated between Philadelphia and Downingtown., Pictorial details printed above title labeled "Number 191" and "Shares.", Contains ornamental border. Printed within border: Shares $50 Each., Transfer agreement printed in letterpress on verso. Includes monogram "L.S.", Reissue statements dated "188_" printed on flap., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Helen Beitler and Estate of Helen Beitler., Allen, Lane & Scott partnered by 1875.
Date: [ca. 1888]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Miscellaneous [P.2011.10.180]

Title: United States Land Company [certificate]
Description: Stock certificate for the Philadelphia branch of the land company "Incorporated 1867" containing allegorical vignettes. Vignettes depict the seal of Pennsylvania as a scenic view; a female figure seated on crates in front of the mast of a ship; a farmer reaping his harvest; and a female figure in a wheat field. Also contains a geometric border and pictorial details showing the anchor of "Hope," and a bee hive., Printed on side border: This certificate is redeemable at the option of the holder in payment for Lands, at the office of the Company, two years from the date hereof., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: [ca. 1867]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Specimens Album [P.9349.232b]

Title: Bank of the United States Records, 1790-1842 (inclusive)
Description: The Bank of the United States Records contains correspondence and documents primarily related to the second Bank of the United States in Philadelphia, with a small collection of material from the first bank, and from several of the second bank's branches in other American cities. There is correspondence with officers of the banks and its patrons John Sergeant, Basil Hall, Nathaniel Silsbee, and William Henry Harrison, as well as documents relating to the construction of the second Bank building designed by William Strickland. Papers relating to the duties of the Commissioners of Loans in the states of Georgia, Massachusetts, New York, and Pennsylvania are filed at the end of the collection., The early national period of the United States was marked by two attempts at central banking, the first and second Bank of the United States, both headquartered in Philadelphia. The first bank was chartered in 1791 with a twenty-year term that was allowed to expire in 1811. Its first president, serving from 1791 through 1807, was Philadelphia merchant Thomas Willing (1731-1821). The bank established offices of discount and deposit in 1792 in Baltimore, Boston, Charleston, and New York, after which it opened offices in Norfolk (1800), Washington and Savannah (1802), and New Orleans (1805)., Plagued by financial troubles during and after the War of 1812, Congress authorized a second bank in 1816, also with a twenty-year renewable term. The acting treasury secretary and Philadelphia native William Jones (1760-1831) was appointed the second bank's first president, succeeded in 1819 by Langdon Cheves (1776-1857), and in 1823 by Nicholas Biddle (1786-1844). The second Bank of the United States opened in Philadelphia in 1817 with seventeen branches in twelve states and the District of Columbia; by 1830 there were twenty-five branches in operation. The bank was not renewed by Congress, and ceased operation in 1836.
Date: 1790
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | MSS McA MSS 012, https://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/Islandora%3A64307#page/1/mode/1up

Title: State Bank of Camden Records. 1812-1837 (inclusive)
Description: The State Bank of Camden Records contains correspondence and financial documents relating to the bank's founding and transactions by some of its stockholders., On deposit at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 1300 Locust Street, Philadelphia, PA 19107. For service, please contact the Historical Society at 215-732-6200 or http://www.hsp.org., The State Bank at Camden was founded in 1812 when the New Jersey General Assembly passed an act to established banks at Camden, Trenton, New Brunswick, Elizabeth, Newark, and Morris.
Creator: State Bank of Camden (Camden, N.J.)
Date: 1812
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | MSS McA MSS 014, https://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/Islandora%3A64364#page/1/mode/1up

Title: Confederate States of America Ephemera Collection, 1861-1865 (inclusive)
Description: The collection contains financial instruments, forms, and ephemera that emanated from the South during the Civil War. The material was once kept in a folio album, and some of the documents, particularly the currency and newspaper clippings, remain attached to their album pages., Folder 1 holds bonds and certificates, many uncut with coupons attached, and one album page with receipts for bonds. Folder 2 holds sixteen album pages of Confederate currency and a folder with fourteen loose dollar bills in various denominations, a few of which are labeled as facsimile notes (as part of their engraved design) and were printed in Philadelphia. There is also one page with Treasurer's bank checks, and a sheet of white paper with CSA watermarks, which is inscribed “Bank note paper manufactured for the Confederate States of America. Part of the cargo of the Blockage runner Bermuda captured 27 April 1862 & brot into the Port of Philadelphia.” Folder 3 holds clippings cut from unidentified newspapers, most of which contain announcements of regiment activities, bonds sales, defense loans, etc. Folder 4 holds ephemera printed with “Southern rights” and other secessionist slogans. Folder 5 holds miscellaneous material printed in the South, primarily government and military forms. There is also a blank sheet of light brown paper inscribed “Rebel writing paper from North Carolina.”, Confederate correspondence is filed in Series III of the McAllister Collection's Civil War Manuscripts (McA MSS 024)., Includes counterfeit currency that was featured on the program "Mysteries at the Museum" (Season 12, Episode 31, in the segment entitled "Civil War Counterfeiter"), which aired 2 February 2017., John A. McAllister was an antiquarian collector living in Philadelphia.
Creator: McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896
Date: 1861
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts MSS McA 5795.F (McAllister)

Title: Philadelphia and Southern Mail Steamship Company [stock certificate]
Description: Stock certificate containing an image of a steamship; the Pennsylvania coat of arms; and an ornamental stamp and border. Company established in 1866., Not in Wainwright., Issued to S[amue]l W. Welsh for twenty shares on February 11, 1868. Signed by S[tephen] Flanagan, president; and Wm. S. Malcolm, treasurer., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 188, Gift of Mrs. Nicholas B. Wainwright.
Date: [ca. 1866]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Philadelphia Certificates - Transportation [P.9408.11]

Title: David Lewis Papers, 1793-1839 (inclusive)
Description: The David Lewis Papers span Lewis's career, and document some of his activities with his firm Wharton & Lewis, with the Phoenix Insurance Company of Philadelphia, and as a merchant., On deposit at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 1300 Locust Street, Philadelphia, PA 19107. For service, please contact the Historical Society at 215-732-6200 or http://www.hsp.org., David Lewis (1766-1840) was a Philadelphia merchant in business with Isaac Wharton (1745-1808) for twenty years. Wharton and Lewis were two of the founders of the Phoenix Insurance Company of Philadelphia, which was organized in 1803. Wharton was elected the company's first president and Lewis its vice president, offices they held until Wharton resigned in November 1805. At that point, Lewis became president, and retained the position until his death in 1840.
Creator: Lewis, David, 1766-1840
Date: 1793
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | MSS McA MSS 015, https://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/Islandora%3A64985#page/1/mode/1up

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