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United States. Department of the Treasury

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Robert C. Naramore's Photographic National Bank Note Detector album

 Collection
Accession: 1996-305
Abstract:

Because of rampant counterfeiting in the 1860s, Secretary of Treasury Hugh McCulloch (1808-1895) made an unprecedented decision to allow Robert C. Naramore (1829-1895) to photograph legal tender so that the images could be used to detect counterfeit bills. The photographs were published by the American Photograph Company of Bridgeport, Connecticut. This small album has eighteen albumen photographs of U.S. bank notes.

Dates: 1866