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| Date: | 11 09 1955 |
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| Description: | A banker pours 12,320 pennies into a change maker. The man had saved the coins for over four years. |
| Date: | 09 19 1958 |
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| Description: | County worker collects alimony payment from an ex-husband. |
| Date: | 07 22 1954 |
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| Description: | A table full of silver dollars where bank workers are preparing them to be sent to American Can Co., a Milwaukee-based company which plans on paying its em... |
| Date: | 12 30 1856 |
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| Description: | A Marshall & Isley, Bankers, check in the amount of $12,500.00 written to J. Alder Ellis from Samuel Marshall. |
| Date: | 11 23 1863 |
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| Description: | A receipt made out to Abraham Gilman for the $300 he paid to avoid serving his draft duty in the Civil War. |
| The Rise and Fall of Private Currencies |
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| Discover the history of currency in Wisconsin, and how paper money led the state to adopt a new constitution in 1848. |
| Date: | 12 16 1956 |
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| Description: | Four children smile at a young man holding out checks. Caption reads: The year's savings of members of the Neighborhood Saving and Recreation organization ... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Henriette Brandhorst (Mrs. George) Brumder is sitting in an upholstered wicker chair at a small table writing in a book. There are coins and paper currency... |
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