United States paper currency, 1779

Item Information

Title:
United States paper currency, 1779
Description:
"4 bills, uncut, that are in the denominations of seventy, five, two and one dollars. The face is two colors and has separate designs in each medallion. The verso has leaf prints against stretched gauze backgrounds (nature prints)...Nature prints, produced from imbedding leaves and gauze in a material and then making stereotypes from them, invented by Benjamin Franklin, printed by Hall and Sellers, Philadelphia. Franklin first used this process in 'Poor Richards Almanac for 1838' [i.e. 1738]"--Hanson Collection catalog, p. 5
Contributor:
Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790
Contributor:
Hall & Sellers
Date:
1779
Format:
Photographs
Genre:
Nature prints
Location:
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library
Collection (local):
David A. Hanson Collection of the History of Photomechanical Reproduction
Subjects:
Paper money--United States
Paper money
Places:
United States
Extent:
1 item : currency, nature prints ; image 9 x 7 cm., on sheet 21 x 17 cm
Link to Item:
http://maca.contentdm.oclc.org/u?/p1325coll1,4992
Terms of Use:
No known copyright restrictions.
No known restrictions on use.
Language:
English
Notes:
Forms part of the David A. Hanson Collection of the History of Photomechanical Reproduction
Identifier:
D.A.H.Cat., 1779:1
NE2698 H174u