The E-Sylum:  Volume 6, Number 39, September 28, 2003, Article 3

GOLD RUSH BANKING ISSUE OF THE ARGONAUT

   On the recommendation of Dave Bowers, I contacted Robert
   Chandler, curator of the Wells Fargo  Museum in San Francisco
   to get a copy of the Winter 2002 issue of  The Argonaut, the
   journal of the San Francisco Museum and Historical Society.
   Dave wrote that the issue is a "superb nearly book-length study
   on Gold Rush Banking, closely involved with and important to
   numismatics.  This was done as a special edition of a magazine,
   and I venture to say that the study will be an ESSENTIAL
   addition to any serious numismatic library."

   The illustrated, 100-page issue features three in-depth articles:
   "Gold Dust and Banking: Banking in Gold Rush San Francisco"
   by Charles A. Fraccia;  "Gold as a Cumbersome, Curmudgeonly
   Commodity, 1849-1870" by Robert J. Chandler; and "Good
   Ethics is Good Business: Wells Fargo Aids Commerce Through
   Banking, Express, and Letter Delivery, 1852-1859" also by
   Robert J. Chandler.

   "Chandler writes: "Charles Fracchia, the other author of this
   issue, is President of the San Francisco Museum and Historical
   Society, and is working to turn the 1875 San Francisco Mint
   building into a Museum.  Copies are $10."   The San Francisco
   Museum and Historical Society may be contacted via P.O. Box
   420569, San Francisco, CA 94142.  The telephone number is
   415-775-1111.

   [The issue is indeed wonderful and anyone with an interest in
   American numismatics of the Gold Rush era should order a
   copy.  Historical society publications are great places to find
   information that seldom turns up in the numismatic community.
   -Editor]

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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