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#	Company	Founded
1	Cambridge University Press	1534
2	Harvard College	1636
3	Harvard Library	1638
4	McCormick & Company	1669
5	College of William & Mary	1693
6	Yale College	1701
7	Yale University	1701
8	Yale University Library	1701
9	Broadwood and Sons	1732
10	Moravian University	1742
11	University of Delaware	1743
12	Sotheby's	1744
13	Princeton University	1746
14	Washington and Lee University	1749
15	Columbia College	1754
16	Mount Vernon	1754
17	Brown University	1765
18	Christie's	1766
19	Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons	1767
20	Encyclopædia Britannica Inc.	1768
21	Transylvania University	1780
22	Bank of North America	1781
23	Phillips Exeter Academy	1781
24	Harvard Medical School	1782
25	Dickinson College	1783
26	Jones Lang LaSalle	1783
27	University of Georgia	1785
28	University of Pittsburgh	1787
29	University of North Carolina	1789
30	University of Vermont	1791
31	State Street Corporation	1792
32	Hamilton College	1793
33	Williams College	1793
34	Bowdoin College	1794
35	University of Tennessee	1794
36	ABCorp	1795
37	University of Louisville	1798
38	Bank of the Manhattan Company	1799
39	Chase Bank	1799
40	Middlebury College	1800
41	University of South Carolina	1801
42	Ohio University	1804
43	Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts	1805
44	Colgate-Palmolive Company	1806
45	Wiley	1807
46	Castle Clinton	1808
47	Biblica	1809
48	The Hartford	1810
49	Yale School of Medicine	1810
50	Warner Chappell Music	1811
51	Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University	1812
52	American Antiquarian Society	1812
53	Princeton Theological Seminary	1812
54	Colby College	1813
55	E. Remington & Sons	1816
56	Remington Arms	1816
57	Black Ball Line	1817
58	Harper	1817
59	HarperCollins	1817
60	Harvard Law School	1817
61	Brooks Brothers	1818
62	New York State Library	1818
63	Saint Louis University	1818
64	School District of Philadelphia	1818
65	Centre College	1819
66	Colgate University	1819
67	Norwich University	1819
68	University of Cincinnati	1819
69	University of Virginia School of Law	1819
70	Indiana University Bloomington	1820
71	Amherst College	1821
72	George Washington University	1821
73	Trinity College	1823
74	Blair House	1824
75	Kenyon College	1824
76	Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute	1824
77	Thomas Jefferson University	1824
78	Yale Law School	1824
79	Baldwin Locomotive Works	1825
80	KeyBank	1825
81	National Academy of Design	1825
82	Furman University	1826
83	Lafayette College	1826
84	Lord & Taylor	1826
85	Baltimore and Ohio Railroad	1827
86	Yuengling	1829
87	University of North Alabama	1830
88	University of Richmond	1830
89	William Cramp & Sons	1830
90	Denison University	1831
91	Merriam-Webster	1831
92	Wesleyan University	1831
93	C. F. Martin & Company	1833
94	Mercer University	1833
95	Oberlin College	1833
96	Long Island Rail Road	1834
97	Wake Forest University	1834
98	Wheaton College	1834
99	Currier and Ives	1835
100	University of West Alabama	1835

Top 100 entries with a recorded value; entries without data are not ranked.