Funereal New Year’s Wishes from Charles H. J. Truman, 1908
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
J. Proctor Knott, Jr.
Bringing Vignettes to Life
J. Proctor Knott, Jr.
The Buck Stops Here: Anti-Truman Scrip of 1952
Politics and Paper Money
The Buck Stops Here: Anti-Truman Scrip of 1952
Introduction
After some seventy-five years, the residues of President Harry S.
Mapping the Group of Twenty
Cartography and Currency – II
Mapping the Group of Twenty
