About This Item

  • Call NumberOSOS_0230
  • TitleCanarsie Railroad Company stock certificate.
  • SummaryStock certificate granting one share of the Canarsie Railroad Company to its Secretary Treasurer, Charles Boody. On front: Canarsie Railroad Company: Capital Stock, $250,000 - Shares, $100 each ... Affixed on back: State of New York stock transfer tax stamp.
  • Date1906-05-31
  • Formattext
  • Physical Description1 image file : digital, TIFF, color
  • Genrestock certificates
  • NoteTitle supplied by cataloger. Date supplied by donor. Original certificate, 8 x 12 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.
  • CreatorCanarsie Railroad Company
  • SubjectStocks ; Railroads ; Subways--New York (State)--New York
  • CollectionOur Streets, Our Stories collection
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Canarsie (New York, N.Y.)
  • Cite AsOur Streets, Our Stories collection, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
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