Currency
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- Title:
- Currency
- Date:
- 1853
- Creator (Corporate):
- Toppan, Carpenter & Company (Philadelphia, Pa.)
- Description:
- Five dollar bill issued by the Farmers & Exchange Bank of Charleston and dated September 28, 1853. Bill depicts an African American tending to a wagon pulled by oxen. Engraved by Toppan, Carpenter, Kasilear & Company, Philadelphia and New York.
- Collection Title:
- Walter Pantovic Artifact Collection
- Contributing Institution:
- Avery Research Center at the College of Charleston
- Media Type:
- Objects
- Topical Subject:
- Banks and banking--South Carolina--Charleston--19th century and Money--South Carolina--Charleston--19th century
- Geographic Subject:
- Southern States, New York (N.Y.), Charleston (S.C.), South Carolina, Philadelphia (Pa.), and South Atlantic States
- Shelving Locator:
- 1999.001.086
- Date Digital:
- 2009-12-11
- Digitization Specifications:
- 300 dpi; Nikon D80 camera; archival images in .tif and .nef formats.
- Internet Media Type:
- image/jpeg
- Copyright Status Statement:
- Digital image copyright 2010, The College of Charleston Libraries. All rights reserved. For more information contact The College of Charleston Library, Charleston, SC 29424.
- Admin ID:
- 30831
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