[FINANCIAL DOCUMENTS]. Sammelband of 17 Voting Trust Agreements; Some Trustees Include J. P. Morgan, Edward Doheny, Cornelius Vanderbilt, and Astor. [V.p., ca. 1900s-1910s]. 4tos bound together. Approximately 255 x 200 mm and a bit smaller. Binding perished, split at spine (binding in two pieces, text toned, occasionally edgeworn). Some agreements are typed copies. This sammelband includes Voting Trust Agreements for the following: Banker’s Trust Company (March 9, 1912, trustees Henry P. Davison, George B. Case, Daniel G. Reid); Indian Refining Company (June 9, 1913, trustees Julius Fleischmann, Clifford B. Wright, William C. Potter); California Petroleum Corporation (October 1, 1912, trustees E. L. Doheny, G. G. Henry, C. A. Canfield); Chicago Great Western Railroad Company (September 1, 1909, trustees J. Pierpont Morgan, George F. Baker, Robert Fleming); Chicago Railways Company (January 25, 1908, trustees Adolphus C. Bartlett, Chauncey Keep, Charles H. Hulburd, Albert A. Sprague, Charles G. Dawes); Davison Chemical Corporation (December 29, 1915, trustees C. Wilbur Miller, John J. Nelligan, Albert H. Wiggin); The Equitable Life Assurance Society (June 15, 1905, trustees Thomas F. Ryan, Grover Cleveland, Morgan J. O’Brien, George Westinghouse); Interborough-Metropolitan Company, (March 6, 1906, trustees August Belmont, Edward J. Berwind, Andrew Freedman, Theodore P. Shonts, Cornelius Vanderbilt); Interstate Car Transfer Company (1902, trustees Russell Harding, Benjamin F. Yoakum, William K. Kavanaugh); Knickerbocker Portland Cement Company (May 1, 1911, trustees S. H. Bassett, Peter B. Bradley, A. B. Daniels, Henry Hornblower, William Prescott); Marlin Arms Corporation (December 10, 1915, trustees O. B. Willcox, Robert L. Bacon, Edgar Park); Mason-Seaman Transportation Company (February 1913, trustee Astor Trust Company); National Railroad Company of Mexico (March 15, 1902, trustees James Speyer, Jacob H. Schiff, Edgar Speyer); Southern Railway Company (December 31, 1903, trustee Guaranty Trust Company of New York); Oregon Railroad and Navigation Company (August 19, 1896, trustee Standard Trust Company of New York); O’Sullivan Rubber Company (December 16, 1910, trustees Charles A. Corliss, B. G. Work, R. H. Cory); Reading Company (February 1, 1897, trustees J. Pierpont Morgan, Frederic P. Olcott, Henry N. Paul); Richmond Radiator Company (December 2, 1912, trustees Albert H. Wiggin, Charles H. Sabin, James Imbrie); Richmond and West Point Terminal Railway and Warehouse Company (October 15, 1894, trustees C. H. Coster, George Sherman, Anthony J, Thomas). Voting trust agreements are for the purpose of transferring temporary voting shares from shareholders to the voting trustees, but the trustees must follow the voting wishes of the shareholders.