13th & 15th Streets Passenger Railway Company

Date

1894

Location

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Amount

$2,500

Signatures

  • J. Fulton Steer
  • J.M. Shoemaker
  • Jor— Richardson
  • Leo P. Kimball
  • Meyer Guggenheim

Description

This stock certificate (No. 4314) represents 50 shares valued at $50 each for the 13th and 15th Streets Passenger Railway Company. This certificate is signed by Trustee and famed businessman, Meyer Guggenheim. Guggenheim, who made his fortune from mining and smelting, was one of the wealthiest men during the 1800’s and is known today for his philanthropy in creating the Guggenheim Museums.

Notable Bond Imagery

At the top, two horses surround a portrait of a boat, till, and wheat with an eagle on top, a building in the background, and a brick railway bridge on the right. At the bottom, a young girl with dark hair looks to her right. On the bottom left sits the company’s official seal stating “Thirteenth and Fifteenth Passenger Railway Company, 1859.” An orange stamp near the left corner states the terms of validation. This certificate has several holes punched into it.

Certificate with blue ink shows intricate borders, lettering, company seal, holes, and signatures and vignettes of a boat, eagle, bridge, and girl
Backside shows various legal language including signatures and dates and punched out holes
Transcription 
						The 13th and 15th Streets Passenger Railway Company reads:
Incorporated April -th 1859
13th and 15th Streets Passenger Railway Company of Philadelphia
Capital $1,000,000 | Shares $50 Each
No. 4314 | 50 Shares

This Certifies, that Meyer Guggenheim is entitled to Fifty Shares in the Capital Stock of the Thirteenth and Fifteenth Streets Passenger Railway Company of Philadelphia, transferable only on the Books of the said Company in Person or by Attorney on return of this Certificate.

Witness the Corporate Seal of the said Company at Philadelphia, Dec. 17th 1894
Signed by the Treasurer Jor— Richardson.
Signed by the President (illegible)

This certificate will not be valid unless Countersigned by The Fidelity, Insurance, Trust and Safe Deposit Co., of Philadelphia Registrar of Transfers
Countersigned and Registered Dec. 18th at The Fidelity Ins. Trust and Safe Deposit Co., Pa by George Potmibrall, Registration Officer

The backside of this document states:
	Know all Men by these Presents, that ____ for value received, have bargained, sold, assigned and transferred, and by these presents, do bargain, sell, assign, and transfer, unto ____ Shares of the Capital Stock of The Thirteenth and Fifteenth Streets Passenger Railway Company, standing in ___ name on the books thereof, and do hereby constitute and appoint J.M. — (illegible) true and lawful Attorney irrevocably for ___ and in ___ name and stead, but to ___ use, sell, assign, transfer and set over, all or any part of the said Shares, and for that purpose to make and execute all necessary acts of assignment and transfer, and one or more persons to substitute with like full power, hereby ratifying and confirming all that ___ said Attorney or ___ substitute or substitutes shall lawfully do by virtue hereof. 
	In Witness Whereof, ___ have hereunto set ___ hand and seal the Jan 9 1895
Sealed and Delivered in Presence of M. Guggenheim
(illegible)
Signature guaranteed by (illegible)
We hereby irrevocably constitute and appoint J. — Stevens our substitute to transfer the within-named stock under the foregoing power of Attorney with like power of substitution. Dated Jan 10, 1895.
Witness (illegible)

Accession No:

2017.002.072