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May 17, 1792

Buttonwood Agreement - Original Articles of Agreement founding the New York Stock and Exchange Board

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February 25, 1817

Transcript of Constitution of the New York Stock & Exchange Board

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October 23, 1818

Report of New York Stock and Exchange Board Committee on Changes in Constitution and By-Laws, as to Membership, etc., New York Stock and Exchange Board Minutes

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March 7, 1861

Report of New York Stock and Exchange Board Committee on Commissions

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July 1867

Official Statement of the "American Dock and Investment Company" to Committee on Applications, New York Stock Exchange

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May 11, 1869

Transcript of Agreement of Consolidation of New York Stock Exchange and Open Board of Brokers of New York

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1875-1965

History of the Professional Practice of Accounting in Kentucky

[image] (pdf) (Courtesy of George P. Fritz)

1888

Telegram from President Grover Cleveland notifying Melville W. Fuller of his nomination to U.S. Supreme Court

[transcript] (pdf) (Melville W. Fuller Papers, courtesy Library of Congress)

May 1, 1888

Congratulation letter from H. Weld Fuller to Melville W. Fuller on nomination to U.S. Supreme Court

[image] (pdf) (Melville W. Fuller Papers, courtesy of Library of Congress)

June 11, 1888

Letter from Senator George Edmunds to Melville W. Fuller on his nomination as Chief Justice

[transcript] (pdf) (Melville W. Fuller Papers, courtesy Library of Congress)

June 12, 1888

Telegram from Melville W. Fuller to Senator George Edmunds on "fabrications" regarding nomination

[transcript] (pdf) (Melville W. Fuller Papers, courtesy Library of Congress)

June 13, 1888

Telegram from Melville W. Fuller to Senator George Edmunds on "anonymous aspersions" regarding nomination

[transcript] (pdf) (Melville W. Fuller Papers, courtesy Library of Congress)

June 14, 1888

Reply telegram from Senator George Edmunds to Melville W. Fuller

[transcript] (pdf) (Melville W. Fuller Papers, courtesy Library of Congress)

May 19, 1892

Letter from Associate Justice Stephen J. Field to Chief Justice Melville W. Fuller on O'Neil v. Vermont

[image] (pdf) (Melville W. Fuller Papers, courtesy of Library of Congress)

May 17, 1895

Letter from Associate Justice Stephen Field to Chief Justice Melville Fuller on his current health and its impact on Income Tax case

[transcript] (pdf) (Melville W. Fuller Papers, courtesy Library of Congress)

May 6, 1896

Letter from Mark Hanna to Carroll Parmalee on support for McKinley election

[transcript] (pdf) (Willis Van Devanter Papers, courtesy Library of Congress)

May 6, 1896

Letter from Mark Hanna to Senator Francis Warren on support for McKinley election

[transcript] (pdf) (Willis Van Devanter Papers, courtesy Library of Congress)

May 7, 1896

Letter from Senator Francis Warren to Mark Hanna on McKinley election

[transcript] (pdf) (Willis Van Devanter Papers, courtesy Library of Congress)

March 10, 1897

Letter from Senator Francis Warren to Judge Willis Van Devanter on possible openings in the McKinley administration

[transcript] (pdf) (Willis Van Devanter Papers, courtesy Library of Congress)

March 11, 1897

Letter from Senator Francis Warren to Judge Willis Van Devanter on meeting with President McKinley

[transcript] (pdf) (Willis Van Devanter Papers, courtesy Library of Congress)

May 1, 1897

Resignation letter of Associate Justice Stephen J. Field

[transcript] (pdf) (Melville W. Fuller Papers, courtesy Library of Congress)

September 11, 1897

Letter from Charles B. Billings to Chief Justice Melville W. Fuller on proposed appointment of Attorney General Joseph McKenna to U.S. Supreme Court

[image] (pdf) (Melville W. Fuller Papers, courtesy of Library of Congress)

1898-1948

Fiftieth Anniversary - Lybrand, Ross Bros. & Montgomery

[image] (pdf) (Courtesy of Jeffrey L. Close)

December 8, 1903

Portion of letter from Associate Justice Henry Brown to Chief Justice Melville Fuller on his current health and its impact on Northern Securities case

[transcript] (pdf) (Melville W. Fuller Papers, courtesy Library of Congress)

December 14, 1903

Letter from Henry M. Hoyt, Office of the Solicitor General to Chief Justice Melville W. Fuller on Northern Securities case

[image] (pdf) (Melville W. Fuller Papers, courtesy of Library of Congress)

January 24, 1907

Letter from Elmer Jones to Senator George Sutherland introducing Senator Norris Brown

[transcript] (pdf) (William H. Moody Papers, courtesy Library of Congress)

February 14, 1907

Letter from John McQuarrie, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints to Senator George Sutherland on Smoot case

[transcript] (pdf) (William H. Moody Papers, courtesy Library of Congress)

August 10, 1908

Letter from Robert Montgomery, Lybrand Ross Bros. & Montgomery to Henry Niles urging unanimous nomination of Joseph Sterrett as President of the American Association of Accountants

[transcript] (pdf) (Courtesy of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants)

January 1910

Additional memorandum in support of application to advance cause and set same for argument about March 1st in Standard Oil Company of New Jersey vs. The United States of America

[transcript] (pdf) (Courtesy of National Archives and Records Administration)

March 11, 1910

Letter from Mr. Keen, American Philosophical Society to Senator George Sutherland on U.S. treaty-making power

[transcript] (pdf) (William H. Moody Papers, courtesy Library of Congress)

April 2, 1910

Letter from Senator Francis Warren to Judge Willis Van Devanter on meeting with President Taft on possible appointment to U.S. Supreme Court

[transcript] (pdf) (Willis Van Devanter Papers, courtesy Library of Congress)

April 6, 1910

Letter from Charles Potter to President Taft in support of Willis Van Devanter's appointment to U.S. Supreme Court

[transcript] (pdf) (Willis Van Devanter Papers, courtesy Library of Congress)

October 25, 1910

Letter from Judge Elmer Adams to Judge Walter Sanborn on Tompkins case

[transcript] (pdf) (Willis Van Devanter Papers, courtesy Library of Congress)

October 25, 1910

Letter from Judge Elmer Adams to Judge Willis Van Devanter on Tompkins case

[transcript] (pdf) (Willis Van Devanter Papers, courtesy Library of Congress)

November 16, 1910

Letter from Senator Page to Senator George Sutherland on leadership of the conservative wing of the Republican Party in the Senate

[transcript] (pdf) (William H. Moody Papers, courtesy Library of Congress)

January 3, 1911

U.S. Circuit Court, Southern District of New York - Indictment against Burr Brothers, Inc.

[transcript] (pdf) (Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration)

January 25, 1911

Letter from James McKenney, Clerk of the U.S. Supreme Court to E. Trenhaft, Esq. on arguments in Standard Oil Co. and in Tobacco Co. cases

[transcript] (pdf) (Courtesy of National Archives and Records Administration)

March 11, 1911

U.S. Circuit Court, Southern District of New York - Appeal of Eugene H. Burr

[transcript] (pdf) (Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration)

March 11, 1911

U.S. Circuit Court, Southern District of New York - Appeal of Shelton C. Burr

[transcript] (pdf) (Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration)

March 15, 1911

U.S. Circuit Court, Southern District of New York - Appeal of Charles H. Tobey

[transcript] (pdf) (Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration)

April 4, 1911

U.S. Circuit Court, Southern District of New York - Brief for Defendants Burr on Demurrer

[transcript] (pdf) (Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration)

April 10, 1911

Letter from L.D. Ratliff to Associate Justice Willis Van Devanter on U.S. Supreme Court

[transcript] (pdf) (Willis Van Devanter Papers, courtesy Library of Congress)

May 29, 1911

Letter from Judge Elmer Adams to Associate Justice Willis Van Devanter on Eighth Circuit, U.S. Court of Appeals

[transcript] (pdf) (Willis Van Devanter Papers, courtesy Library of Congress)

June 1, 1911

Letter from Henry Maine to Representative George Legare on Arizona constitution

[transcript] (pdf) (William H. Moody Papers, courtesy Library of Congress)

June 4, 1911

Thank-you letter from Judge Elmer Adams to Associate Justice Willis Van Devanter for suggestions on opinion

[transcript] (pdf) (Willis Van Devanter Papers, courtesy Library of Congress)

July 12, 1911

Letter from Ralph Duniway to Senator George Sutherland on "Oregon system"

[transcript] (pdf) (William H. Moody Papers, courtesy Library of Congress)

July 13, 1911

Letter from Herbert Lacey to Associate Justice Willis Van Devanter on transfer of law books

[transcript] (pdf) (Willis Van Devanter Papers, courtesy Library of Congress)

July 24, 1911

Letter from Herbert Lacey to Associate Justice Willis Van Devanter on progress of transfer of law books

[transcript] (pdf) (Willis Van Devanter Papers, courtesy Library of Congress)

July 29, 1911

Letter from Louis Brandeis to Robert LaFollette on Alaska

[transcript] (pdf) (Louis D. Brandeis Papers, Brandeis School of Law, University of Louisville)

August 16, 1911

Letter from Herbert Lacey to Associate Justice Willis Van Devanter on conclusion of transfer of law books

[transcript] (pdf) (Willis Van Devanter Papers, courtesy Library of Congress)

November 1, 1911

Letter from Judge Elmer Adams to Associate Justice Willis Van Devanter on Southern Railway Company v. U.S.

[transcript] (pdf) (Willis Van Devanter Papers, courtesy Library of Congress)

February 9, 1912

Thank-you letter from D.L. Cease to Senator George Sutherland on support for railroads

[transcript] (pdf) (William H. Moody Papers, courtesy Library of Congress)

March 5, 1912

Letter from George Smith to Senator George Sutherland on compensation of railroad employees

[transcript] (pdf) (William H. Moody Papers, courtesy Library of Congress)

September 27, 1912

Telegram from Woodrow Wilson to Louis Brandeis on regulation of competition

[transcript] (pdf) (Louis D. Brandeis Papers, Brandeis School of Law, University of Louisville)

December 19, 1912

Testimony of J.P. Morgan on the Money Trust Investigation to the Subcommittee of the Committee on Banking and Currency, U.S. House of Representatives (Pujo Committee)

[transcript] (pdf) (excerpt - Government Records)

July 31, 1913

Memorandum on Balance Sheet Audits - Price, Waterhouse and Company

[image] (pdf) (AICPA Collection, University of Mississippi)

November 13, 1913

Letter from Sherman Whipple to Senator George Sutherland on the courts

[transcript] (pdf) (William H. Moody Papers, courtesy Library of Congress)

December 20, 1913

"What Publicity Can Do," Harper's Weekly - Louis D. Brandeis

[document] (pdf) (Courtesy of the Library of Congress)

April 25, 1914

Letter from Judge Elmer Adams to Associate Justice Willis Van Devanter on Insurance Company v. Lewis

[transcript] (pdf) (Willis Van Devanter Papers, courtesy Library of Congress)

October 1915

Motion to advance in Sioux Falls Stock Yards Company vs. Clarence C. Caldwell

[transcript] (pdf) (Courtesy of National Archives and Records Administration)

1916

Federal Trade Commission v. Claire Furnace Company et al.

[transcript] (pdf) (William H. Moody Papers, courtesy Library of Congress)

January 7, 1916

Letter from Samuel Gompers, American Federation of Labor to Senator George Sutherland on proposed eight-hour workday

[image] (pdf) (William H. Moody Papers, courtesy of Library of Congress)

January 15, 1916

Letter from Senator George Sutherland to Samuel Gompers on eight-hour workday

[transcript] (pdf) (William H. Moody Papers, courtesy Library of Congress)

February 1916

The Living Law - Louis D. Brandeis, Illinois Law Review

[image] (pdf) (With permission of University of Illinois Law Review)

March 9, 1916

Letter from Alfred Cruikshank to Senator George Sutherland on submarine warfare

[transcript] (pdf) (William H. Moody Papers, courtesy Library of Congress)

May 8, 1916

Letter from Louis Brandeis to Edward McClennan on nomination to Supreme Court

[transcript] (pdf) (Louis D. Brandeis Papers, Brandeis School of Law, University of Louisville)

May 9, 1916

Letter from Louis Brandeis to Edward McClennan on pending nomination

[transcript] (pdf) (Louis D. Brandeis Papers, Brandeis School of Law, University of Louisville)

May 16, 1916

Letter from Louis Brandeis to Edward McClennan on nomination strategy

[transcript] (pdf) (Louis D. Brandeis Papers, Brandeis School of Law, University of Louisville)

May 17, 1916

Report from Louis Brandeis to Edward McClennan on situation of nomination

[transcript] (pdf) (Louis D. Brandeis Papers, Brandeis School of Law, University of Louisville)

June 7, 1916

Letter from Clarence Caldwell, South Dakota Attorney General to James Maher, Clerk of the U.S. Supreme Court on pending case of Caldwell vs. Sioux Falls Stock Yards Company

[transcript] (pdf) (Courtesy of National Archives and Records Administration)

June 30, 1916

Letter from Samuel Gompers, American Federation of Labor with legislative record of Senator George Sutherland on measures of interest to labor

[image] (pdf) (William H. Moody Papers, courtesy of Library of Congress)

October 23, 1916

Letter from Timothy Hogan to James Maher, Clerk of the U.S. Supreme Court on oral argument in Hall vs. Geiger-Jones

[transcript] (pdf) (Courtesy of National Archives and Records Administration)

November 11, 1916

Letter from Republican National Committee to Senator George Sutherland on his election defeat

[image] (pdf) (William H. Moody Papers, courtesy of Library of Congress)

February 21, 1917

Letter to Felix Frankfurter on arguments in front of Supreme Court

[transcript] (pdf) (Louis D. Brandeis Papers, Brandeis School of Law, University of Louisville)

April 1917

Approved Methods for the Preparation of Balance Sheet Statements - Alternative Proposal Submitted by the Federal Reserve Board

[image] (pdf) (AICPA Collection, University of Mississippi)

April 3, 1917

Letter to members of the American Institute of Accountants from W. Sanders Davies on appointment of Institute Committee to Council of National Defense

[transcript] (pdf) (Courtesy of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants)

August 28, 1917

Methods of Taxing War Profits Compared - Letter to the Editor of the New York Times by George O. May, Price, Waterhouse and Co.

[image] (pdf) (Courtesy of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants)

September 6, 1917

Letter from Southern Pacific Railway to Senator George Sutherland on Interstate Commerce Commission

[transcript] (pdf) (William H. Moody Papers, courtesy Library of Congress)

July 3, 1918

Letter from American Metal Company Ltd. to Federal Trade Commission on profit-sharing

[transcript] (pdf) (Louis D. Brandeis Papers, Brandeis School of Law, University of Louisville)

July 19, 1918

Letter from C.M. Loeb, American Metal Company, Ltd. to Henry Bruere on effect of Federal Trade Commission report

[transcript] (pdf) (Louis D. Brandeis Papers, Brandeis School of Law, University of Louisville)

January 8, 1919

Letter from S.H. Clark, University of Chicago to Justice Louis Brandeis

[transcript] (pdf) (Louis D. Brandeis Papers, Brandeis School of Law, University of Louisville)

May 20, 1919

Letter from Huston Thompson, Federal Trade Commission to Justice Louis Brandeis on reading Other People's Money

[transcript] (pdf) (Louis D. Brandeis Papers, Brandeis School of Law, University of Louisville)

September 29, 1919

Letter from Upton Sinclair to Justice Louis Brandeis

[transcript] (pdf) (Louis D. Brandeis Papers, Brandeis School of Law, University of Louisville)

1920s

Instructions to new members of the New York Stock Exchange, from Ashbel Green, Secretary

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March 15, 1920

Letter from Senator George Sutherland to William Guthrie on 18th Amendment

[transcript] (pdf) (William H. Moody Papers, courtesy Library of Congress)

June 26, 1920

Letter from Senator George Sutherland to Senator Warren Harding on upcoming election

[transcript] (pdf) (William H. Moody Papers, courtesy Library of Congress)

November 10, 1920

Letter from Senator George Sutherland to President-Elect Warren Harding

[transcript] (pdf) (William H. Moody Papers, courtesy Library of Congress)

December 10, 1920

Letter from Judson Welliver to Senator George Sutherland on possible appointment to U.S. Supreme Court

[transcript] (pdf) (William H. Moody Papers, courtesy Library of Congress)

April 12, 1921

Letter from Arthur W. Loasby, The Equitable Trust Company of New York, on behalf of the Private Bankers Association, to New York Governor Nathan L. Miller in support of the Martin Act

[transcript] (pdf) (Courtesy of Orestes Mihaly)

April 12, 1921

State of New York Act to amend the general business law, in relation to fraudulent practices in respect of stocks, bonds and other securities (Martin Act)

[transcript] (pdf) (Courtesy of Orestes Mihaly)

April 25, 1921

Letter from George W. Hodges, Remick Hodges & Co. to C. Tracy Stagg, The Capitol, Albany, New York in support of the Martin Act

[transcript] (pdf) (Courtesy of Orestes Mihaly)

May 7, 1922

Interview with Mr. Seymour L. Cromwell, President of the New York Stock Exchange, reprinted from The New York World

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May 12, 1922

Letter from Chief Justice William Howard Taft to Associate Justice Willis Van Devanter on Chicago Board of Trade and Reading cases

[transcript] (pdf) (Willis Van Devanter Papers, courtesy Library of Congress)

August 31, 1922

Letter from Chief Justice William Howard Taft to Associate Justice Willis Van Devanter on pending retirement of Associate Justice John Clarke

[transcript] (pdf) (Willis Van Devanter Papers, courtesy Library of Congress)

September 4, 1922

Congratulation letter from Henry Kirk White to Senator George Sutherland on appointment to U.S. Supreme Court

[transcript] (pdf) (William H. Moody Papers, courtesy Library of Congress)

September 10, 1922

Congratulation letter from Chief Justice William Howard Taft to Senator George Sutherland on appointment to U.S. Supreme Court

[transcript] (pdf) (William H. Moody Papers, courtesy Library of Congress)

April 10, 1923

Letter from Henry W. Anderson to Associate Justice George Sutherland on minimum wage case

[transcript] (pdf) (William H. Moody Papers, courtesy Library of Congress)

May 5, 1923

Letter from Sailors' Union of the Pacific to Associate Justice George Sutherland on the women's minimum wage decision

[image] (pdf) (William H. Moody Papers, courtesy of Library of Congress)

July 16, 1923

Letter to the Editor from Felix Frankfurter on dissenting opinions on the U.S. Supreme Court

[transcript] (pdf) (Harlan Fiske Stone Papers, courtesy Library of Congress)

September 22, 1924

Letter from Robert H. Montgomery to members of the New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants with questions on having one or two national professional organizations

[image] (pdf) (Courtesy of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants)