- On View
- Taking the Stage Gallery
- Museum Maps
- Objects in this Location
- Exhibition
- Taking the Stage
- Distributed by
- BET Holdings, Inc., American, founded 1980
- Subject of
- Black Entertainment Television, American, founded 1980
- Date
- 1991
- Medium
- ink on paper
- Dimensions
- H x W: 8 × 12 in. (20.3 × 30.5 cm)
- Description
- Specimen stock certificate for BET Holdings, Inc. The stock certificate has a blue patterned border with a black and white illustration at the top center of an African American man and woman sitting in front of a computer. Black type directly below the illustration reads “BET HOLDINGS, INC. / INCORPORATED UNDER THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE.” Stamped at the center of the certificate in red ink is “SPECIMEN.” The back of the stock certificate is a legal form with blank lines unfilled throughout.
- Classification
- Documents and Manuscripts
- Type
- stock certificates
- Topic
- Business
- Television
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Object number
- 2014.53.1
- Restrictions & Rights
- No Known Copyright Restrictions
- Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.




