The Ticker
Exhibition Retrospective: 1989 – 2011
A Retrospective of the
American Capital Markets
Connecting the Nation:
A Tale of Two Rails
January – April 1989
December 1996 – December 1997
Alexander Hamilton:
First Secretary
of the Treasury
Rags to Riches: Financing
the American Revolution
January – November 1998
September – December 1989
Going Public:
Initial Public Offerings
The History of
Stock Certificates
December 1998 – June 1999
April 1992 – March 1993
Rockefeller Rediscovered
America, Money
and War: The Financing
of the Civil War
July – December 1999
Locks, Stocks and Barrels:
Erie Canal and New York
April 1993 – March 1994
January – June 2000
70 Years of American
Mutual Funds
Free Markets, Free Press
April – October 1994
June – December 2000
Gems from the Collection
The Artistry of
African Currency
May – December 1995
January – March 2001
200 Years of the
American Bank
Note Company
MORGAN
April – December 2001
December 1995 – October 1996
July 2
1890
The Sherman Anti-Trust Act
becomes law, authorizing the
US Department of Justice to
break up giant monopolies.
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July 2
1962
Sam Walton, a struggling
retailer from Oklahoma, opens
an 18,000-square-foot discount
store called Wal-Mart.