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Description
Sumner C. Rand's name is on a certificate for three shares of Portland Company stock, dated July 1881.
George F. Morse, treasurer; and by E.H. Daveis, president of the Portland Company, signed the certificate.
The company sold stock to support its growing manufacturing needs. The Portland Company was a locomotive fabricator and steel foundry. They built a variety of engines.
About This Item
- Title: Portland Company stock certificate, July 1881
- Creation Date: 1881
- Subject Date: 1881
- Location: Portland, Cumberland County, ME
- Media: Ink on paper
- Local Code: Coll. 242, Box 3 Stock
- Collection: Portland Company records
- Object Type: Text and Image
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Standardized Subject Headings
- Iron industry
- Manufacturing industries--Maine--Portland
- Portland Company (Portland, Me.)--Stock certificates
- Railroad equipment industry
- Steel industry
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