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NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY COLONIAL ERA ARCHIVEAnne E. Bentley of the Massachusetts Historical Society writes: For your readers interested in our Colonial history, the New York Public Library has digitized this collection of "approximately 10,800 historical manuscripts relating chiefly to the period prior to, during, and following the American Revolution" AND retained Emmet's archival practice of "extra-illustrating" the archive. Among the “object types” they list “Maps, Money, Muster Rolls.” Enjoy! To access the Emmet archive, see: Thomas Addis Emmet collection (archives.nypl.org/mss/927)
Thank you!
Curious, I did a search for "Money" and the first item I found relates to Depression Scrip, and sounds like a wonderful resource for anyone researching the numismatics of the era.
I think I wandered beyond the Emmet archive, but this only illustrates what a wonderful source historical archives can be.
-Editor
Collection consists of correspondence, articles, questionnaires, and printed matter concerning the use of scrip money. Correspondence of Fisher and his associate Hans R.L. Cohrssen is with businessmen, chambers of commerce, public officials, legislators, economists, and academicians. Topics include Fisher's plan to end the economic depression of the 1930s through the use of stamped scrip, and emergency measures taken to cope with the economic crisis. Also, scripts of articles by Fisher, Cohrssen and others; questionnaires and directives on the use of scrip; and printed ephemera relating to scrip money in America and abroad. Biographical/Historical Note Irving Fisher (1867-1947) was an economist and professor of political economy at Yale University from 1898 to 1935.He specialized in monetary economics and in the application of mathematical techniques to the solution of economic problems. To read the complete archive entry, see: Irving Fisher papers, 1932-1938 (www.nypl.org/archives/1264)
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