Proof sheet for $50-100 of the Federal-American National Bank of Washington, DC, 1922
date: label: date made
content: 1872
label: date made
content: 1920
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content: 1899
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content: 1890
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content: 1909
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content: 1922
label: date made
content: 1904
label: date made
content: 1905
label: date made
content: 1885
label: date made
content: 1896
label: date made
content: 1893
label: date made
content: 1891
notes: label: Description
content: National bank note proof from the National Capital Bank of Washington DC, $50-100. Charter number 10316. The $50 note features the portrait of John Sherman, Secretary of the Treasury from 1877 to 1881, and Secretary of State from 1897 to 1898. The $100 note depicts John J. Knox, Comptroller of the Currency from 1872 to 1884. National bank notes usually had four signatures on the faces; two Treasury officials and two signatures of officers in the bank that issued the notes. This proof sheet shows an interesting feature that occurred occasionally during the 1920’s where the bank would instruct the Bureau of Engraving and Printing to engrave the bank officers’ signatures, in this case Charles Boyer as Cashier and John Poole as President. This bank was organized on January 15, 1913 and changed its title to Federal-American on October 31, 1922 when this bank absorbed the American National Bank, Charter 6712 on that date. The title change was certainly the occasion for producing this plate a month after the change occurred. This was the only bank in D.C. to issue Series of 1902 plain backs in these denominations of $50 and $100. The bank went into receivership October 31, 1933. There are eleven large size notes with the new bank title and twenty-five notes with the earlier title known among collectors.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: Place Made
content: United States: California, San Francisco
label: place made
content: United States: District of Columbia, Washington
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content: Work and Industry: National Numismatic Collection
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content: Coins, Currency and Medals
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: NNC.297219.00551
label: accession number
content: 297219
label: catalog number
content: NU*297219.00551
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Proof sheet
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 34.4 cm x 20.3 cm; 13 9/16 in x 8 in