11 Different Stock Certificates of Great Corporations of the U.S. & 3 Prints - dated 1960's-80's Collection of Scripophily - Eleven Stock Certificates & Three Prints
Inv# GS1304 Stock
Stocks or Bonds of 11 different corporations plus 3 prints.
The Western Union Company, headquartered in Denver, Colorado, is an American multinational financial services company. Founded in 1851 as the New York and Mississippi Valley Printing Telegraph Company in Rochester, New York, the company merged with several other telegraph companies in 1856 and changed its name to the Western Union Telegraph Company. From the 1860s to the 1980s, the company dominated the American telegraphy industry, pioneering technologies like telex and developing a range of telegraph-related services, including wire money transfer, in addition to its core business of transmitting and delivering telegram messages.
The Union Pacific Railroad, legally known as the Union Pacific Railroad Company and often referred to simply as Union Pacific, is a freight-hauling railroad operating 8,300 locomotives over 32,200 miles (51,800 km) routes in 23 U.S. states west of Chicago and New Orleans. Union Pacific is the second-largest railroad in the United States, after BNSF, with which it shares a duopoly on transcontinental freight rail lines in the Western, Midwestern, and Southern United States.
The Martin Marietta Corporation, founded in 1961 through the merger of the Glenn L. Martin Company and American-Marietta Corporation, merged with Lockheed Corporation in 1995 to form Lockheed Martin.
ITT Inc., formerly ITT Corporation, is an American multinational manufacturing company headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut. The company specializes in producing specialized components for various markets, including aerospace, transportation, energy, and industrial sectors. ITT’s three primary businesses are Industrial Process, Motion Technologies, and Connect and Control Technologies.
General Foods Corporation, founded in the United States in 1895 by Charles William Post as the Postum Cereal Company, had a long history.
The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company, commonly known as A&P, was an American chain of grocery stores that operated from 1859 to 2015. During its tenure, A&P held the distinction of being the largest grocery retailer in the United States from 1915 to 1975 (and, until 1965, the largest retailer of any kind in the country).
United States Lines, the trade name of an organization established by the United States Shipping Board (USSB) and the Emergency Fleet Corporation (EFC), played a significant role in the early 20th century. This organization was created to operate German liners seized by the United States in 1917. The ships were owned by the USSB, and all financial aspects of the line were controlled by the EFC. Among the notable ships of this period was Leviathan, which briefly held the title of the largest ship in the world.
The New York Central Railroad (reporting mark NYC) was a prominent railroad that primarily operated in the Great Lakes and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States. Its primary objective was to connect major cities in the eastern and western parts of the country, including New York and Boston in the east with Chicago and St. Louis in the Midwest. Additionally, it served intermediate cities such as Albany, Buffalo, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Detroit, and Syracuse. The headquarters of the New York Central Railroad was located in New York City’s New York Central Building, which was situated adjacent to its largest station, Grand Central Terminal.
Howard Johnson’s, also known as Howard Johnson by Wyndham, is an American-owned chain of worldwide hotels and motels. The company has its primary presence throughout the United States. Notably, Howard Johnson’s was not only a hotel chain but also a renowned restaurant chain for an impressive 97 years. Founded by Howard Deering Johnson, the company reached its zenith in the 1960s and 1970s, becoming the largest restaurant chain in the United States. At its peak, Howard Johnson’s operated over 1,000 combined company-owned and franchised outlets.
The House of Fabergé, founded in 1842 in Saint Petersburg, Russia, by Gustav Faberge, was a renowned jewelry firm. Gustav’s sons, Peter Carl and Agathon, and their grandsons continued the business until its nationalization by the Bolsheviks in 1918. The firm gained fame for its exquisite jewel-encrusted Fabergé eggs designed for the Russian Tsars and for its other high-quality, intricately detailed works. In 1924, Peter Carl’s sons, Alexander and Eugène Fabergé, opened a firm in Paris, France, called Fabergé & Cie. They produced similar jewelry items and added the city’s name to their firm’s stamp, stylizing it FABERGÉ, PARIS.
AT&T Corporation, originally known as the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, is a subsidiary of AT&T Inc. It provides various telecommunications and professional services to businesses, consumers, and government agencies, including voice, video, data, and Internet services.
A stock certificate is issued by businesses, usually companies. A stock is part of the permanent finance of a business. Normally, they are never repaid, and the investor can recover his/her money only by selling to another investor. Most stocks, or also called shares, earn dividends, at the business's discretion, depending on how well it has traded. A stockholder or shareholder is a part-owner of the business that issued the stock certificates.
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