Greenback Party: pieces of campaign ephemera including Br, circulars & "money" [Decimalized .01- .21]

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Collection Summary

Also, numerous handbills in the form of currency, many quite humorous. Some items are second copies.

Collection Details

GLC#: GLC03972
Type: Header Record
Date: 1868
Title: Greenback Party: pieces of campaign ephemera including Br, circulars & "money" [Decimalized .01- .21]
Place Written: Various Places
Pagination: 21 items + env.

Time Period

Primary time period: Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877

Sub-Era: Reconstruction

Subjects

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Collection Item

Printed document

Facts for Government Bondholders, And the Holders of Greenbacks

1868

One side is in English the other is in a Germanic language

GLC03972.01

Collection Item

Printed document

[The People of the United States Promised to Pay the Bondholders in Greenbacks and They Will Enforce the Contract]

1868

GLC03972.02

Collection Item

Printed document

[Platform of the National Greenback Labor Party]

1868

GLC03972.03

Collection Item

Printed document

[Pendleton, The Peoples Nominee]

1868

"The People Demand of the United States the Payment of the Bonds in Greenbacks and Equal Taxation, One Currency for All."

GLC03972.04

Collection Item

Printed document

[Remonetize The Silver Dollar]

1868

Calls for "The People Demand of the United States the Payment of the Bonds in Greenbacks and Equal Taxation, One Currency for the Government and the People the Laborer and the Office holder the Producer and the Bond Holder"

GLC03972.05

Collection Item

Printed document

["Absolute Money"]

1868

A satirical hundred dollar bill has images of Dennis Kearney and Benjamin F. Butler on it.

GLC03972.06

Collection Item

Printed document

[National Milk]

1868

A satirical bond for a quart of milk for "the wants of Moterless Babes, and Infants of all Species"

GLC03972.07

Collection Item

Printed document

[Equal Taxation]

1868

GLC03972.08

Collection Item

Printed document

[Fiat Money]

1868

"Fifty Dollars. Redeemable nowhere, in nothing and by nobody. Issued in accordance with the Fiat of the Gran Conclave of the National Commune. Approved Feb'y 30th, 1878 "

GLC03972.09

Collection Item

Printed document

[Absolute Money]

1868

Has the Greenback Platform printed on the reverse.

GLC03972.10

Collection Item

Printed document

[Absolute Money]

1868

GLC03972.11

Collection Item

Printed document

[Absolute Money]

1868

"Let only the National Government Issue our Money. Burn the Bonds. Pay Them All in Greenbacks. Bounce the National Banker" Has an ad for Dr. J. S. Rose's Cough Syrup on the reverse

GLC03972.12

Collection Item

Printed document

[Absolute Money]

1868

"Let only the National Government Issue our Money. Burn the Bonds. Pay Them All in Greenbacks. Bounce the National Banker" Has an ad for Richard Seymor, Wholesale and Retail Dealer on the reverse

GLC03972.13

Collection Item

Printed document

[Absolute Money]

1868

"Let only the National Government Issue our Money. Burn the Bonds. Pay Them All in Greenbacks. Bounce the National Banker"

GLC03972.14

Collection Item

Printed document

[Absolute Money]

1868

"Fifty Dollars Redeemable nowhere, in nothing and by nobody. Issued in accordance with the Fiat of the Gran Conclave of the National Commune."

GLC03972.15

Collection Item

Printed document

[Absolute Money]

1880

"Fifty Dollars Redeemable nowhere, in nothing and by nobody. Issued in accordance with the Fiat of the Gran Conclave of the National Commune. Approved March 16th, A.D., 1880"

GLC03972.16

Collection Item

Printed document

[Absolute Money]

1880

"One Thousand Dollars, Redeemable nowhere, in nothing and by nobody. The law directs that this money shall circulate freely. Whent his note has been spent, another may be had upon application at the U. S. Treasury"

GLC03972.17