Stock certificate for the Birth of a Race Photoplay Corporation: Museum Object and Cultural History
Stock certificate for the Birth of a Race Photoplay Corporation: Date: 1918. Created by: Birth of a Race Photoplay Corporation, American, founded 1916. Printed by: Goes Lithographing Company, American, founded 1879.
The object in the museum catalogue
A stock certificate for the Birth of a Race Photoplay Corporation. Document is made out to Henrietta Eggert for four shares at ten dollars per share. The certificate is signed by E. E. [illegible] and Edwin L. Barker in their roles as Assistant Secretary and President of the company, respectively, and dated to the 9th of March, 1918. At top center is an image of a radiant torch. Gold embossed stamp at bottom left is largely illegible, but part appears to read [BIRTH OF A RACE PHOTOPLAY CORPORATION]. On back is a restatement of the issuance of four shares of the capital stock of the Birth of a Race Photoplay Corporation to Henrietta Eggert. On the left is preprinted language, complete with blank spaces for filling out, for the sale or transfer of the certificate to another party.
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date: 1918
- Created by: Birth of a Race Photoplay Corporation, American, founded 1916
- Printed by: Goes Lithographing Company, American, founded 1879
- Printed by: Dwight & M. H. Jackson, American
- Subject of: Edwin L. Barker, American
- Subject of: Henrietta Eggert
- Type: stock certificates
- Medium: ink on paper
- Dimensions: H x W: 8 1/4 × 10 7/8 in. (21 × 27.6 cm)
- Place depicted: Delaware, United States, North and Central America
- Topic: African American
- Topic: Black Enterprise
- Topic: Business
- Topic: Film
- Topic: Finance
- Object number: 2019.28.26.1
- Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture
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