Mastercharge Credit Card, United States, 1978
date: label: date made
content: 1978
name: label: maker
content: MasterCard Worldwide
notes: label: Description
content: Over the course of the twentieth century, new technologies gave American consumers more options in making payments, the most significant of which were charge and credit cards. General-purpose credit cards were first developed in the United States. Master Charge (now MasterCard) started in 1966 following BankAmericard (now Visa) and American Express which first became available to consumers in the late 1950s.
place: label: place made
content: United States
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content: Work and Industry: National Numismatic Collection
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content: Coins, Currency and Medals
label: Exhibition
content: Value of Money
label: Exhibition Location
content: National Museum of American History
publisher: label: Related Publication
content: Feingold, Ellen R.. Value of Money, The
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Elvira Clain-Stefanelli
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: NU.84.17.21
label: catalog number
content: 84.17.21
label: accession number
content: 1984.0606
label: serial number
content: 843
objectType: label: Object Name
content: credit card
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 5.4 cm x 8.5 cm x .1 cm; 2 1/8 in x 3 11/32 in x 1/32 in