J. Proctor Knott, Jr.
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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
Cartography and Currency in the Falklands/Malvinas Islands Dispute
Cartography and Currency - I
The Falklands/Malvinas Islands Dispute
Mrs. Oliver Harriman's Bet on the Lottery
Mrs. Oliver Harriman’s Bet on the Lottery
Introduction
WHILE LOTTERIES SERVED important financial purposes in the early United States, by the second half of the 19th century their operation was increasingly restricted or suppressed by the American states.
When Jenny Lind Circulated in America
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When Jenny Lind Circulated in America
Introduction
IN HER STUDY of women on currency, Virginia Hewitt observes that “almost all women on notes are personifications or idealizations, even when they appear
J.G. Cocking's Tea Check
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JG Cocking’s Tea Check
An Introduction to the Tea Check
As a vehicle for premium marketing, the “tea check” has been overshadowed by the more extensive coupon and certificate circulations issued in the early 20th century by
The Bettor Deal Certificate and McNair's Federal Fealty Note
Politics and Paper Money
The Bettor Deal Certificate and McNair’s Federal Fealty Note
MUCH OF THE POLITICAL OPPOSITION to President Lyndon Baines Johnson emerged from the sequence of fateful policy choices concerning inflation and the Vietnam War that he
Gladys
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Gladys
NAMED AFTER the widow of a stockholder of the railroad whose track-building gave birth to the town, Van Alstyne, Texas was first settled in 1873 and incorporated in 1890.
Jane Byrne's Rage Against the Machine
Politics and Paper Money
Jane Byrne’s Rage Against the Machine
WHEN MAYOR RICHARD J. DALEY DIED a few days short of Christmas 1976, a crucial piece had failed in the workings of Chicago’s fabled political machine.
