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historical stock data starting from 1900
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good day! did a little research by using oldest public company (dutch east india company, voc, traded in amsterdam stock exchange) as search criteria and found this lovely graph from http://www.businessinsider.com/rise-and-fall-of-united-east-india-2013-11?ir=t :  why it is relevant? below the image i found the source of data - global financial data. i guess the answer to your question would be to go there: https://www.globalfinancialdata.com/index.html  hope this helps and good luck in your search!
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