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Corporate History

All in the Family (80) Gregory DL Morris. How a French colonial pioneer gave rise to a flourishing asset-management firm.

The Chesapeake & Delaware Canal Company (69) Earl Moore. Commissioning and Constructing a Canal to Cross the Delaware.From Pack

Peddlers to High Tech Funds (67) Thomas Walek. J. & W. Seligman & Co. and the American Experience

From Soap Suds to Beer Suds (77) Sanford Wexler. How Anheuser-Busch became the largest brewer in the world.

Herreshoff Manufacturing Company (36) A brief history of the company and its founder Nathaniel Herreshoff who designed large sailing yachts for men such as J.P. Morgan and Alfred G. Vanderbilt.

Herreshoff Manufacturing Company/ Revised (56) Steve Goldsmith. If you have to ask how much, you can’t afford it.

History of the North American Land Company (66) Earl Moore.

The National Leg and Arm Company - A Business For its Time (59) Sanford J. Mock. The history of prostheses and the company that provided much needed limbs for Civil War veterans.

Pabst Brewing Company (34) Editors. A brief look at the origin and development of one of today's largest brewers in the world.

The Rise and Fall of W.T. Grant (82) Bruce Weitzman. A series of management miscues cause the collapse of a retail giant.

Still They Ride (80) Gregory DL Morris. Of the 12 companies on the original Dow Jones Industrial Average, 11 of them, or their direct successors, are still in business.

The Wall Street Scandal of Grant & Ward (81). President Ulysses S. Grant's failed foray into the world of investment banking.

Wells Fargo (68) James Romeo. The History of a Company Fueled by Gold Fever.

Western Inland Lock Navigation Company (46) Photos of the May 5 costumed reenactment of the original sale of canal company stock in 1792. The reproduction of canal stock and the sale was a joint project of the Museum and the New York State Museum.

Wood, Struthers and Winthrop: 100 Years (25-27) Rowland H. George. A company history, written by a Wall Street old-timer.