United States Currency and Banking Miscellany
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Content Description
Collection contains United States paper money, 1770-1865, checks, promissory notes, bank draftd; U.S. government bond issued Feb. 17, 1864; two deposit slips dated Sept. 12, 1865, and Dec. 14, 1866; and part of a ticket issued in a lottery established by the state of New Hampshire for the benefit of Dartmouth College. The money includes colonial currency, Confederate currency, and state bank notes of 1861-1864. Also included is paper money issued by the Bank of Louisiana (1862), and by the West Feliciano Rail Road Company, State of Mississippi; and commemorative facsimiles of Confederate currency, two of them issued by the Charleston, S.C. Chamber of Commerce. The collection contains one 3-cent coin from 1852.
Dates
- 1770 - 1865
Creator
- United States. Department of the Treasury. (Organization)
Extent
0.2 cubic feet.
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
United States currency and bank notes.
Processing Information
Formerly catalogued as Rare Books HG607 .U58 Broadside box ++.
- Status
- Completed
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Repository
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca NY 14853
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