Currency
- Object Name:
- Currency
- Object ID:
- 2012.500.114
- Creator:
- Draper Bald Company
- Place of Origin:
- Newport, NH
- Date:
- 1864
- Description:
- Currency. Bank Note. Engraving, printed on paper. Obverse: "Newport 18_ / THE SUGAR RIVER BANK / No. A / Will pay THREE DOLLARS on demand / to or bearer / Cashr. Prest. / NEW HAMPSHIRE" printed; "ABE" printed top; "Draper Bald Co. New York Philada." fine print bottom; "Dec 10 64" written in ink top; "5848" written in ink center; illegible signature center; FW Lewis and Thomas W. Gilmore's signatures printed center; "THREE" printed top left corner; "3" printed top right corner; left, two seated women, sailor, mechanic, cityscape with smokestacks background, barrels wheel; center, harbor with lighthouse, anchor, anvil, barrels, sheaves of wheat; right, two seated women, one holds sickle, man stands, rake, dog, two oxen, sheaves of wheat, industry and agriculture; thin black border.
- Material:
- Paper
- Dimensions:
- H-3 W-6.9 inches
- Credit Line:
- New Hampshire Historical Society Collection
- Subjects:
- Banking, Bank notes, Men, Women, anchor, Sheaves, Anvil, Barrels, Dogs, Oxen, Sailors, Mechanics (Persons), Harbors, lighthouse, Smokestacks
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