America's Paper Money
The Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1690 became the first government in the Western world to print paper money, the imagery for which initiated an indigenous American art form of remarkable dynamism and originality. After the Revolutionary War, disillusioned by how quickly its promiscuous printing of Co...
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| author | Pressly, William L. |
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| description | The Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1690 became the first government in the Western world to print paper money, the imagery for which initiated an indigenous American art form of remarkable dynamism and originality. After the Revolutionary War, disillusioned by how quickly its promiscuous printing of Continental currency had led to hyperinflation, the U.S. government left it to private institutions such as state-chartered banks to carry on this artistic American tradition. Adorned with a vast variety of images, bank notes soon became the fledgling country’s primary currency. With pressures of the Civil War, the federal government in 1861 began taking charge of the paper-money supply by creating a national currency; simultaneously, the Confederate States of America was creating a competing self-image, making heavy use of bank-note vignettes. Later, collaboration between government engravers and well-known artists on the 1896 Silver Certificates marked the apex of U.S. government currency design. For two centuries, American creativity and technical ingenuity resulted in imagery on paper money that helped create and enhance the nation’s imagined self. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1346422024-03-23T14:57:29Z America's Paper Money Pressly, William L. art history North American history Numismatics currency paper money money thema EDItEUR::A The Arts The Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1690 became the first government in the Western world to print paper money, the imagery for which initiated an indigenous American art form of remarkable dynamism and originality. After the Revolutionary War, disillusioned by how quickly its promiscuous printing of Continental currency had led to hyperinflation, the U.S. government left it to private institutions such as state-chartered banks to carry on this artistic American tradition. Adorned with a vast variety of images, bank notes soon became the fledgling country’s primary currency. With pressures of the Civil War, the federal government in 1861 began taking charge of the paper-money supply by creating a national currency; simultaneously, the Confederate States of America was creating a competing self-image, making heavy use of bank-note vignettes. Later, collaboration between government engravers and well-known artists on the 1896 Silver Certificates marked the apex of U.S. government currency design. For two centuries, American creativity and technical ingenuity resulted in imagery on paper money that helped create and enhance the nation’s imagined self. Published 2024-02-23T15:14:26Z 2024-02-23T15:14:26Z 2023-12-12 book https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/134642 eng application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Banfield, William (2023). Culture Throughlines: Values, Visions and Transformation—African American Music, American Culture, and Society. Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press. Book. https://doi.org/10.5479/si.24233773 Smithsonian Scholarly Press https://doi.org/10.5479/si.24871410 https://doi.org/10.5479/si.24871410 Smithsonian Scholarly Press 384 open access |
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