Research Catalog

Title

The banker's art : studies in paper money / edited by Virginia Hewitt.

Publication

London : Published for the Trustees of the British Museum by British Museum Press, 1995.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Hewitt, V. H. (Virginia H.)
• British Museum

Description

168 p. : ill. (some col.), 1 ports.; 25 cm.

Subject

• Bank notes > History
• Banknotes History

Genre/Form

• History
• Congresses (form)

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Sweden's Stockholm Banco and the first European banknotes / Ian Wiseh́n -- The influence of the Bank of England and the Scottish banks on American banking, 1781-1913 / Douglas B. Ball -- Paper for silver: Dutch coin notes and silver notes / H.W. Jacobi -- Louis Kossuth's banknote issue and legal case in London in 1861 / Erika Garami -- Economic warfare: banknote forgery as a deliberate weapon / Peter Bower -- A case study: classifying the notes of the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank Corporation, 1865-1898 / Joe Cribb.
• Compound-plate printing and the nineteenth-century banknote / Maureen Greenland -- Printing Spanish banknotes in England, 1850-1938 / Teresa Tortella -- Late Qing paper money from Dianshizhai and other printing houses in Shanghai, 1905-1912 / Helen Wang -- Surviving images, forgotten peoples: Native Americans, women, and African Americans on United States obsolete banknotes / Richard G. Doty.
• Agents of culture and nationalism: the Confederate Treasury and Confederate currency / Guy R. Swanson -- 'Something characteristic of our land': Eliel Saarinen as a banknote designer / Tuukka Talvio -- A legend tumbles down: the gypsy on the Banco de Mex́ico five peso note printed by the American Bank Note Commpany / Elsa Lizalde Chavez -- Soft images, hard currency: the portrayal of women on paper money / Virginia Hewitt.

ISBN

0714108790 (pbk)

LCCN

gb^96038233^

OCLC

• 60251615
• SCSB-11365023

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library