Sattler Scrip of Buffalo, New York
Sattler Scrip of Buffalo, New York
IN THE SHIFTING LANDSCAPES of American retailing, department stores occupied a commanding position from the late 19th to the mid-20th century.
Bank Accounts for Babies in Louisville, Kentucky
Bank Accounts for Babies in Louisville, Kentucky
AT THE BEGINNING OF December 1924, John E. Huhn, Vice President of the Liberty Insurance Bank of Louisville, Kentucky, sent a solicitation letter under his signature to a three-week old newborn.
William F. Airey, Writer of Checks
William F. Airey, Writer of Checks
AS MRS. FRANKLIN P.
Funereal New Year’s Wishes from Charles H. J. Truman, 1908
Funereal New Year’s Wishes from Charles H. J.
Reuben Eaton Fenton, the Soldier's Friend
Bringing Vignettes to Life
Reuben Eaton Fenton, The Soldier’s Friend
THE TRIM, BEARDED PORTRAIT on this very handsome certificate of deposit issued by the First National Bank of Jamestown, New York needed no caption for the bank’s turn of the century c
A Bank Check Tour of the University of Illinois
A Bank Check Tour of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
A LATE NINETEENTH CENTURY VISITOR to University of Illinois’s Urbana campus, clutching this bank check, would have had little difficulty matching its montage of building vignettes to their corresponding structures.
William J. Carroll, Gorton-Pew, and the Gloucester National Bank
William J. Carroll, Gorton-Pew, and the Gloucester National Bank
ALTHOUGH EXPERTS reasonably disagree about many things, it is beyond dispute that the frozen fish stick, pioneered by the Gorton-Pew Fisheries Co.
Ezeemunny, Dopey Dough, and California's Ham and Eggs Movement
Politics and Paper Money
Ezeemunny, Dopey Dough, and California’s Ham and Eggs Movement
BY THE END OF THE 1930s, Americans had seen a lot of (and perhaps had enough of) scrip and other unofficial alternatives to the U.S. dollar.
The Pancake Day Certificate of Liberal, Kansas
The Pancake Day Certificate of Liberal, Kansas
Frank C. Hughes's New Deal Sound Mazuma
Politics and Paper Money
Frank C. Hughes’s New Deal Sound Mazuma
