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Photo, Print, Drawing 6 cents. Humbug glory bank

[ digital file from b&w film copy neg. ]

About this Item

Title

  • 6 cents. Humbug glory bank

Summary

  • Another mock bank note parodying the "shinplasters" of the 1837 panic. Such small-denomination notes were based on the division of the Spanish dollar, the dominant specie of the time. Hence they were issued in sums of 6 (more accurately 6 1/4), 25, 50, and 75 cents. These fractional notes proliferated during the Panic of 1837 with the emergency suspension of specie (i.e., money in coin) payments by New York banks on May 10 of that year. "Treasury Note" and "Fifty Cents Shin Plaster" (nos. 1837-9 and -11) also use the bank note format to comment on the dismal state of American finances. Unlike these, however, "Humbug Glory Bank" is actually the same size as a real note. The note is payable to "Tumble Bug Benton," Missouri senator and hard-money advocate Thomas Hart Benton, and is signed by "Cunning Reuben [Whitney, anti-Bank adviser to Jackson and Van Buren] Cash'r" and "Honest Amos [Kendall, Postmaster General and influential advisor to Van Buren] Pres't." It shows several coins with the head of Andrew Jackson at left, a jackass with the title "Roman Firmness," a hickory leaf (alluding to Jackson's nickname "Old Hickory"), and a vignette showing Jackson's hat, clay pipe, spectacles, hickory stick, and veto (of the 1832 bill to recharter the Bank of the United States) in a blaze of light. Above is a quote from Jackson's March 1837 farewell address to the American people, "I leave this great people prosperous and happy."

Names

  • Fleetwood, Anthony, approximately 1800-

Created / Published

  • New York : [s.n.], 1837.

Headings

  • -  Benton, Thomas Hart,--1782-1858
  • -  Jackson, Andrew,--1767-1845
  • -  Kendall, Amos,--1789-1869
  • -  Van Buren, Martin,--1782-1862
  • -  Whitney, Reuben Miles,--1788-1845
  • -  Banking--1830-1840
  • -  Depressions--United States--1830-1840
  • -  Economic policy--1830-1840
  • -  Shinplasters (Fractional currency)

Format Headings

  • Etchings--1830-1840.
  • Political cartoons--1830-1840.

Genre

  • Etchings--1830-1840
  • Political cartoons--1830-1840

Notes

  • -  Copyrighted by Anthony Fleetwood, 1837.
  • -  Published at 89 Nassau Str. New York.
  • -  Signed facetiously: Martin Van Buren Sc.
  • -  The print was deposited for copyright on August 21, 1837, by Anthony Fleetwood, and published at the same address (89 Nassau Street) as "Capitol Fashions" (no. 1837-1), also an etching. The Library's impression (the copyright deposit proof) is printed on extremely thin tissue.
  • -  Title appears as it is written on the item.
  • -  Forms part of: American cartoon print filing series (Library of Congress)
  • -  Published in: American political prints, 1766-1876 / Bernard F. Reilly. Boston : G.K. Hall, 1991, entry 1837-10.

Medium

  • 1 print : etching on thin wove paper ; 7.3 x 16.5 cm. (sheet)

Call Number/Physical Location

  • PC/US - 1837.F444, no. 1 (A size) [P&P]

Source Collection

  • American cartoon print filing series (Library of Congress)

Repository

Digital Id

  • cph 3b35965 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3b35965

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2008661306

Reproduction Number

  • LC-USZ62-89594 (b&w film copy neg.)

Rights Advisory

  • No known restrictions on publication.

Online Format

  • image

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  • Reproduction Number: LC-USZ62-89594 (b&w film copy neg.)
  • Call Number: PC/US - 1837.F444, no. 1 (A size) [P&P]
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Fleetwood, Anthony, Approximately. 6 cents. Humbug glory bank. United States, 1837. [New York: s.n] Photograph. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2008661306/.

APA citation style:

Fleetwood, A. (1837) 6 cents. Humbug glory bank. United States, 1837. [New York: s.n] [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2008661306/.

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Fleetwood, Anthony, Approximately. 6 cents. Humbug glory bank. [New York: s.n] Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2008661306/>.