Company Histories
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Historical Annual Reports
- ProQuest Historical Annual Reports This link opens in a new windowOffers corporate annual reports for U.S. companies from 1884 to the present. Key data (financial, Fortune 500 ranking, industry classification, key people, geographic location, auditor, and related companies) are indexed in the citation and can be searched.
- Annual Reports at Academic Business LibrariesIndex of annual report collections at twelve academic libraries. Approximately 38,000 companies are listed.
- Columbia Digital Annual ReportsApproximately 36 companies are represented with a total of approximately 770 individual reports (ca. 17,300 pages) ranging from the 1850s through the early 1960s. Note the companies included operated in the New York City area.
- Lippincott Library Collection of Annual ReportsThe Collection consists of annual reports in PDF format from U.S. companies, and covers the period 1800 through 1955. Reports are continuously added.
- Library of Congress: Pre-1974 Corporate Annual Reports on MicroficheAlphabetical listing by company of selected annual reports prior to 1974 which are held on microfiche in the Science and Business Reading Room of the Library of Congress.
Other Historical Company Information Sources
- International Directory of Company Histories This link opens in a new windowProvides histories of companies that are a leading influence in a particular industry or geographic location.
- Directory of Obsolete SecuritiesUI Law Library Stacks HG4961 .D56
Offers info of what became of a company and the value of the stock when the merger or acquisition occurred - The Commercial and financial chronicle.From the Hathitrust.
Coverage:1865 to early 1900s. - Poor's Manual of Railroadsfrom the Hathitrust.
Coverage: 1868 to 1924