No. [3488], [4] shares. Cleveland, Painesville, and Ashtabula Ohio Rail Road Company from Cleveland to Erie. Shares $50 each authorised [sic] capital $3,000,000. This certifies, that [Msrs. Stebbins & Bloodgood are] proprietor[s] of [four] shares in the capital stock of the Cleveland, Painesville, and Ashtabula Rail Road Company ... incorporated by the Legislature of Ohio, February 18th 1848. ... Office of the company in Cleveland [Jany 25] 18[59] ... [electronic resource]

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Cleveland, Painesville, and Ashtabula Rail Road Company [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
[New York] : Wellstood, Hanks, Hay & Whiting, New York., [1859]
Description
1 stock certificate : ill. ; 19 x 26 cm.

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Series
American broadsides and ephemera. First series ; no. 22947. [More in this series]
Notes
  • Image of a long railroad train pulled by steam locomotive through landscape, over arched bridge at far right. Canal boat about to pass under bridge. A vignette of a woman seated on a rock blowing a trumpet appears at bottom of certificate.
  • See also Ephemera Stock 0037, and for identical train image, Ephemera Stock 0074.
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Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2005. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (American broadsides and ephemera. First series ; no. 22947).
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United States New York New York.
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