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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. 6    Financial History  |  Spring/Summer 2011  |  www.MoAF.org July 2 1962 Sam Walton, a struggling retailer from Oklahoma, opens an 18,000-square-foot discount store called Wal-Mart.