About This Item

  • TitleCertificate for stock of The Brooklyn Elevated Railway Company.
  • Call NumberOSOS_0233
  • Cite AsOur Streets, Our Stories collection, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryStock certificate granting twenty five shares of The Brooklyn Elevated Railway Company to James Thomson of 69 Wall Street, New York City.
  • Date1879-04-21
  • Formattext
  • Physical Description1 image file : digital, TIFF, color
  • NoteTitle supplied by cataloger. Date supplied by donor. Original certificate, 7 x 15 inches, digitized on December 7, 2015 as a TIFF. Donated for capture by Steven Kaye at the Jamaica Bay Library. Collected through the Our Streets, Our Stories community heritage project, a part of the Culture in Transit grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation's Knight News Challenge.
  • CreatorBrooklyn Elevated Railway Company
  • SubjectStocks ; Railroads, Elevated
  • CollectionOur Streets, Our Stories collection
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
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