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Western Union International 1967 Stock Certificate Documenting the Telegraph Company's International Communications Business

1967rif. 167971967. Western Union International Inc. stock certificate 1967 documents the corporate financing of Western Union's international communications business during the transition from traditional telegraphy toward newer telecommunications technologies. Western Union had separated its international cable properties into Western Union International in 1963 and the company became publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange in 1967. The certificate therefore dates to the year of that public listing and records the financial structure supporting an international communications enterprise descended from the nineteenth-century telegraph network. Western Union International Inc. Stock Certificate. 1967. Series N3669. Engraved and printed by the American Bank Note Company with an ornate orange border surrounding the principal text and a central vignette depicting two allegorical female figures among clouds. Printed facsimile signatures of the company's President and Secretary appear on the certificate. The document combines corporate ownership information with elaborate security engraving characteristic of American stock certificates preserving material evidence of Western Union International's capitalization in the year its shares entered public trading. Western Union's nineteenth-century telegraph network had transformed long-distance communication before telephone service increasingly displaced telegram traffic during the twentieth century. Its earlier confrontation with Bell over telephone patents ended with an 1879 settlement under which Western Union withdrew from the telephone business while telegraphy remained central to American commercial and social communication for decades afterward. By 1967 Western Union International belonged to a communications industry increasingly shaped by telephone cable microwave and other electronic transmission technologies making this certificate a dated corporate record of that technological transition. Condition not stated in the supplied description. unknown

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Western Union International 1967 Stock Certificate Documenting the Telegraph Company's International Communications Business

Max Rambod Inc. · Stati Uniti100,00 USD≈ 89,34 €

[WESTERN WHEELED SCRAPER COMPANY, AURORA, ILLINOIS]Biblio.com

WESTERN WHEELED SCRAPER COMPANY. CONCRETE ROAD BUILDING. CATALOG NO. 45 / TITLE PAGE CONCRETE ROAD BUILDING. CONCRETE ROAD CONSTRUCTION. THE INDUSTRIAL RAILWAY. WESTERN BATCH BOXES. WESTERN ROAD BUILDERS TRUCK. WESTERN ROAD BUILDERS DUMP CAR. WESTERN ROAD BUILDERS SERVICE CAR. WESTERN PORTABLE TRACK. PLACING INDUSTRIAL TRACK. INDUSTRIAL RAILWAYS AND THE BATCH-BOX DIRECT-CHARGING SYSTEM. CATALOG NO. 45.

1915rif. 48534Aurora: Privately printed ca. 1915. ca 1915. TRADE CATALOG. First edition. 11" x 8 1/2" in light gray printed wrappers with raised title in green. 16pp. 273-286. Illustrations. Foreword. Uncommon catalog of equipment which played a crucial role in road building driven by the Good Roads Movement during the opening decades of the 20th century. Western Wheeled Scraper Co. had in 1904 perfected dump cars with 12 cubic yard capacity operated by air and these became the backbone of earth moving operations both in railroad line building and road building across the country. This catalog advertises their industrial railways aggregate loaders material bins dump cars mixers feeding the batch boxes the Western batch box direct-charging system etc. Offers information on placing Western Industrial track along with diagram plans for doing so. Also laid in Bulletin 19-B Western Dump Wagon which touts their Western Dump Wagons with steel-reinforced and extra wide wheels. In 1901 the Western Wheeled Scraper Co. and the F.C. Austin Manufacturing had formed a selling corporation known as Austin-Western Road Machinery Co. The company specialized initially in building scrapers. In 1916 President Wilson signed the Federal Aid Road Act enabling America to embark on a truly national highway and road construction campaign that continued to the end of the 1920s. Light soiling to pages and wrappers along with shelf label at upper left fore-edge stamp for Contractors Machinery & Storage Co. and with rubbing to spine and light wear to the extremities. Still very good. Privately printed, [ca. 1915]. unknown

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