Originally enacted in the 1860s as a vehicle to assist the Union in financing the Civil War, the National Banking Act was the driving legislation behind over 14,000 banking institutions chartered in the 1861-1935 period. This presentation covers the backstory of one such institution in depth, from the immigrant living the American Dream, to the network of economic activity that provided the capital to start a bank in the early 20th century in the agrarian Midwest, to navigation of the pitfalls of the Great Depression and the bank's ultimate absorption in the consolidation of the 1980s and 1990s. Presentation is richly illustrated with period photographs and numismatic artifacts.
About the Speaker: Mark Anderson has been a numismatic collector since the age of 11. While he would admit to other acquisitive tendencies, such as some coins and stamps, paper money has always been his principal focus. He began collecting when he received, to him, an unusual bill in change on a bus in 1967. Curiosity about the note begat accumulation of others like it, and with time, specialized collections of Spanish, Swedish and United States paper money.
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New York City, NY; NYC