http://nearnet.gnn.com/gnn/meta/finance/res/invest.data.html
This index page from the Global Network Navigator (GNN) Personal Finance Center (PFC) provides links to a historical data about the US economy. You can connect to the Financial Data Finder - an excellent directory of financial information providers and databases (both on and off the Net) compiled by the Ohio State University Department of Finance; use FTP (File Transfer Protocol) to reach Savage Archive - a collection of public domain investment-related files maintained by Ed Savage of Data General Corp; or browse through MIT (Massachussets Institute of Technology) Experimental Stock Market Charts - stock report updated daily. Historical price and volume charts are available for 385 stocks. Files of historical banking and interest rate information from the Internet Multicasting Service go back to the 1940's.