Prentice-Hall, Inc. - Educational Publisher - Only Blue or Olive Available - Specimen Stock Certificate

Specimen Stock printed by American Bank Note Company. Prentice Hall was a prominent American educational publisher. It produced both print and digital materials for the 6–12 and higher education sectors. Throughout most of the twentieth century, it operated as an independent entity. In its final years, it was owned by and subsequently merged into Savvas Learning Company. During the Web era, it offered its technical publications through the Safari Books Online e-reference service for several years. 

On October 13, 1913, law professor Charles Gerstenberg and his student Richard Ettinger established Prentice Hall. They derived the name of their new company from their mothers' maiden names, Prentice and Hall. At that time, the name was typically formatted as Prentice-Hall (as illustrated on many title pages), following an orthographic convention for coordinate elements in such compounds (similar to McGraw-Hill, which later became McGraw Hill). Prentice-Hall gained recognition as a publisher of trade books by authors like Norman Vincent Peale; elementary, secondary, and college textbooks; loose-leaf information services; and professional literature. In 1979, Prentice-Hall acquired the training organization Deltak.