This is a certificate of the accounts of the Edison Speaking Phonograph Company for the year 1887, as required by the law of the state of New Jersey. It states that it has no credits and debts, no cash-valued real estate, that it has 800,000 dollars worth of capital stock actually paid, and that it's personal estate is valued at 5,000 dollars. A list of the names, addresses, and amounts of stock owned by each shareholder follows.

Edison Speaking Phonograph Co

Cheever, Charles Augustus

Hubbard, Gardiner Greene

Painter, Uriah Hunt

1888-02-14

1880-1889

Report

Stocks, bonds, and investments

Cylinder phonograph

HX88018

HX88

[HX88018], Report from Edison Speaking Phonograph Co, Charles Augustus Cheever, February 14th, 1888

145:128

Thomas Edison National Historical Park

Thomas A. Edison Papers, School of Arts and Sciences, Rutgers University