Money
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Currency; Standard of value.
Found in 1 Collection or Record:
Robert C. Naramore's Photographic National Bank Note Detector album
Found in:
Audiovisual Collections
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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
