A selection of corporate reports of New York City corporations from the 1850s to the 1960s has been digitized through the Columbia U. Business Library.
EDGAR (Electronic Data Gathering Analysis and Retrieval) is the SEC database of required corporate filings. The database contains the full text financial filings of publicly traded companies in the United States.
Searchable by company or industry name, year, or words in the text, the collection consists of annual reports in PDF format from U.S. companies, and covers the period 1800 through 1955. Reports are continuously added.