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[nb 2] The first National Bank Notes were issued on 21 December 1863. [17] In 1871, George Frederick Cumming Smillie (G.F.C. Smillie) worked for his uncle James David Smillie at the American Banknote Company. In his career Smillie began working as an engraver for the U.S. Bureau of Engraving and Printing (BEP) in 1894. In 1918 he was made the ...
In the case of the last issues of small size National Bank Notes, referred to as Type 2 notes, the charter number also appeared twice in brown ink in line with the note's serial numbers. Small size National Bank Notes look very similar to, but are distinctly different from, the emergency 1933 issue of the Federal Reserve Bank Notes. These were ...
The first banknotes were produced by intaglio printing: this involved engraving a copper plate by hand and then covering it in ink to print the bank notes. Only with this technique, at that time, could one force the paper into the lines of the engraving to make suitable banknotes.
The term "Educational" is derived from the title of the vignette on the $1 note, History Instructing Youth. [5] Each note includes an allegorical scene on the obverse and a pair of portraits on the reverse. Women appear on all three notes. [6] Denominations of $1, $2, and $5 were produced.
The Secretary of the Treasury was given broad latitude by Congress in 1862 to supervise the design, printing, and issue of banknotes. [nb 2] [4] The Secretary, with input from the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, has final approval over the design of banknotes. [nb 3]
Other terms often used for printed engravings are copper engraving, copper-plate engraving or line engraving. Steel engraving is the same technique, on steel or steel-faced plates, and was mostly used for banknotes, illustrations for books, magazines and reproductive prints, letterheads and similar uses from about 1790 to the early 20th century, when the technique became less popular, except ...
Art and engraving on United States banknotes (all), Steel engraving, and others. FP category for this image U.S. History Creator American, Continental, and National Bank Note Companies under contract to the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. Restoration by Godot13.
The note features Albert Sealy's engraving of Thomas Jefferson on the obverse of the bill. The note was known as the "Woodchopper Note" or "Pioneer Note" because there is a depction of a man with an axe in the center of the obverse. It was a large-size US bank note measuring 7.125 in (181.0 mm) x 3.125 in (79.4 mm). [1]