As part of our mission to collect and preserve the history of America's capital markets, the Museum actively collects financial documents. The collection of the Museum of American Finance includes stocks, bonds, photographs, corporate archival documents, prospectuses and annual reports, banknotes, checks, and engravings.
The Museum holds one of the largest collections of 18th century financial documents as well as many of the papers relating to the Supreme Court Case Gibbons - v - Ogden, the decision which established free competition for interstate commerce. The Museum collects stock and bond certificates from the Gilded Age, including companies such as U.S. Steel, Standard Oil, and the New York Central Railroad.
Collection highlights include the oldest known photograph of Wall Street, a U.S. Treasury Bond issued to George Washington with the first known use of the dollar sign, a 1791 letter from Alexander Hamilton to the Bank of New York urging the bank to continue purchasing Treasury Bonds from the first bond issue, a stock ticker from 1867, a ticker tape from the morning of October 29, 1929, and the archives and order books from the American Bank Note Company.
Items from the Museum's collection have been featured in books, newspapers and television documentaries. The collection is available to researchers by appointment.
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