BEIN Zc72 +872ss: Newark Silver Mining Co. certificate is number 4861, dated Jany 21st 1878, and siged on recto W.H. Allen (Secretary) and A.H. Yeazell (President), with autograph of J.T. Shotwell (?) on verso.

BEIN Zc72 +872ss: California Fertilizing Company is certificate number 311 but is otherwise blank.

Collection title devised by cataloger.

Certificate for Newark Silver Mining Co. has printed note "incorporated March 1872," space for date with printed year "187_," and cartouche in upper left for printed number.

Certificate for California Fertilizing Company has printed note "incorporated November 1st 1875," space for date with printed year "187_," and banner in upper right for printed number.

G.T. Brown & Co. Lith. was operated by Grafton Tyler Brown, the first African American lithographer on the West Coast.

[1.] Newark Silver Mining Co. (1 sheet ([1] page), 15 x 25 cm)

[2.] California Fertilizing Company (1 sheet ([1] page), 11 x 34 cm)

Stock certificates > United States > Specimens.

Silver mines and mining > Nevada > Lincoln County.

Fertilizer industry > California.

African Americans > California > San Francisco.

Lithographers > California > San Francisco.

G.T. Brown & Co. Lith.