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

News & Notes Volume XI, No. 7

July 29, 2025

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.

News & Notes Volume XI, No. 4

July 8, 2025