| Vanderpoel & Smith's Varnish Factory, New York (1855) - courtesy New York Public Library “There has been enough of fancy stocks in New York and Philadelphia; they are more intended to put coppers into speculators’ pockets than to get them out of the earth. If they wish to work in good faith, we have already a general law on the subject [incorporations] which is liberal enough and sufficient for any honest purposes.” – Assemblyman Jonathan Pickel (New Jersey), 1848 |
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