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Twenty five dollar private bank note issued by Mississippi and Alabama Rail Road Company
Title
[Twenty five dollar private bank note issued by Mississippi and Alabama Rail Road Company].
Publication
[Brandon, Mississippi] : [Mississippi and Alabama Rail Road Company], [1836?]
Manufacture
Phila. ; N.Y. : Draper, Toppan, Longacre & Co.
Physical Description
1 print : engraving ; 7.2 x 18 cm
Local Notes
BEIN BrSides Box 2019 894: On sheet 7.6 x 17.8 cm. In manuscript, bank note signed [names unreadable]; dated: Mar. 1st, [18]37; and numbered: 219. Forms part of the Benjamin Franklin Collection.
Notes
Title devised by cataloger.
Summary
Bank note depicts central vignette of three female allegorical figures, seated among images of arts, sciences, and agriculture with side vignettes showing early steam engine, passenger coach, and box car; with portraits of George Washington, Benjamin Franklin and two others; at bottom left, a bust-length portrait of Benjamin Franklin (2.2 x 1.8 cm) afer the Duplessis portrait; at upper left, a portrait of George Washington.
Variant and related titles
Mississippi & Alabama Rail Road Company promises to pay twenty five dollars to ...
Format
Images
Language
English
Added to Catalog
October 07, 2021
References
Fridenberg, R. Catalogue of the engraved portraits of Franklin, Duplessis, 192
Subjects
Genre/Form
Engravings.
Bank notes.
Portraits.
Also listed under
Draper, Toppan, Longacre & Co., engraver.
Mississippi and Alabama Rail Road Company, publisher, issuing body.
Benjamin Franklin Collection (Yale University. Library)
United States Mississippi Brandon.
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