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Collection Overview
Scope and Contents of the Materials
Representative examples of American currency from 1771 to 1955. Items include Colonial era paper money, Civil War era currency (including Confederate money), as well as twentieth-century silver certificates.
Subject/Index Terms
Administrative Information
Repository:
Berea College Special Collections and Archives Catalog
Access Restrictions:
Records can be accessed through the Reading Room, Berea College Special Collections and Archives, Hutchins Library, Berea College.
Use Restrictions:
There are no restrictions on use by researchers other than federal copyright restrictions.
Preferred Citation:
[Identification of item], Currency Collection [Paper Money], 1771-1955, Berea College Special Collections & Archives, Berea, Ky.
Other Note:
Collection Number: BCA 0184 HC 09
Box and Folder Listing
Browse by Box:
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Box 1: Currency Collection],
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Box 2: Samples of Notes and Bonds of Various Denominations and Issues of the Confederate States of America, 1961-1964],
[All]
- Box 1: Currency Collection
- Folder 1: Alabama State (Civil War Era)
- Folder 2: Colonial Era
- Folder 3: State of Indiana
- Folder 4: Confederate
- Folder 5: Civil War
- Folder 6: German Reichsbanknote, Other
- Folder 7: WWII, Philippines
- Folder 8: United States, 20th Century
- Folder 9: Specimans of Notes Issued by the Confederate States of America, 1861-1864
- Variety of notes. Note included. Notes came into possession of the Union Army about the close of the Civil War and were turned over by the War Department to the Treasury of the United States in the year 1867. Treasury Department presented sets of notes to different repositories including Berea Library in 1913.
- Box 2: Samples of Notes and Bonds of Various Denominations and Issues of the Confederate States of America, 1961-1964
- Collected by Major C.F. Burnam. Pages from book with notes and bonds attached to pages. Some notes from this book may be found in Box 1, Folder 9.
