Stock Certificate Photos
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   The photographs below show actual stock certificates used in the past by some famous American corporations.  Shares of stock represent partial ownership of a corporation.  With today's electronic systems for buying or selling stock, investors normally do not receive printed certificates like these.  Instead, they receive an account statement each year from a stock broker that looks much like a bank statement.


Photos by David Burns, Fasttrack Civics Project


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stock certificate Pennsylvania Railroad





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Photos Copyright 2007 by David Burns.  These photo images of stock certificates may be used by teachers and students in their own classrooms for educational, non-commercial purposes, provided a photo credit line is shown as follows:  Photos by David Burns, Fasttrack Civics Project.  The photographs may not be posted on any other Internet site.  You may link to this page.