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 made between 1964 and 1967.
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.
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.
ANIMALS APPEAR in a wide variety of situations and motifs on fiscal paper. Livestock and other ruminants typically serve to illustrate agricultural bounty or evoke pastoral settings. Some animals symbolize a place itself, like the otter on checks from the Bank of Otterville, Missouri.
WHEN JOSEPH D. CLAPP'S PORTRAIT began appearing in the late 1880s on drafts drawn on the First National Bank of Fort Atkinson, he had been President of that Wisconsin institution for nearly twenty-five years since its founding in 1864.
In June of the year 2000, notice appeared of a curious advertising note in the pages of Fun Money, the quarterly newsletter of a sister collector organization, The American Play Money Society (if any organization deserved to exist, it was one with a name like that).
A MAN SAUNTERING down some urban sidewalk in early 20th century America might have been handed this currency-like handbill by a tout loitering outside a theater. Inside, a number of acts were readying for their evening performances. “W. B. Watson presents Washington Society Girls”, with “May Howard” and “Harry Marks Stewart”. “SEE THE BIG SHOW”, exhorts the handbill.
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