Stock Certificate Photos

Stock Certificate Photos
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The photographs below show actual stock certificates used in the past by several 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 anymore. Instead, they receive an account statement from a stock broker that looks much like a bank statement. Paper certificates like these have become collectors items.

Photos by David Burns.