the picture url is: https://www.glabarre.com/item_images/sb156.jpg (right click, select properties, highlight the Address: (URL) {{which could be multiple lines long}} by dragging over it & down, then right click again over the highlighted url, then select Copy)
I've got one of those Farmers' and Merchants' Bank $5s, too.
The bank has a rather fascinating history - in 1850, the board of directors sued each other over the way the bank was run and, during a break in the trial, they had a shoot-out on the streets of Memphis to settle their disagreement. The President of the Bank, Jeptha Fowlkes (later the President of the Southern Pacific Railroad) was wounded slightly; Levin Coe (former Speaker of the Tennessee State Senate and nominee for Vice President of the United States at the 1848 Democratic Convention) subsequently died from his wounds.
I exchanged e-mails with one of Mr. Coe's descendents a couple of years ago - fascinating stuff.
Additional information is in Schweikart's "Banking in the American South" and the Spring 1995 issue of the "Tennessee Historical Quarterly".
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With regard to the red x....yeah, i don't know why sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't, that's why i put the link under it.
The first one from DO Mills, the building is a couple blocks from the Sacramento ANA in March.
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With regard to the red x....yeah, i don't know why sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't, that's why i put the link under it. >>
you put the URL to the web page in there instead of the URL of the single image.
http://www.glabarre.com/item/Penn_Yan_Mining_Co/150/p2
into the box, what do i put in?
the picture url is:
https://www.glabarre.com/item_images/sb156.jpg
(right click, select properties, highlight the Address: (URL) {{which could be multiple lines long}} by dragging over it & down, then right click again over the highlighted url, then select Copy)
I've got one of those Farmers' and Merchants' Bank $5s, too.
The bank has a rather fascinating history - in 1850, the board of directors sued each other over the way the bank was run and, during a break in the trial, they had a shoot-out on the streets of Memphis to settle their disagreement. The President of the Bank, Jeptha Fowlkes (later the President of the Southern Pacific Railroad) was wounded slightly; Levin Coe (former Speaker of the Tennessee State Senate and nominee for Vice President of the United States at the 1848 Democratic Convention) subsequently died from his wounds.
I exchanged e-mails with one of Mr. Coe's descendents a couple of years ago - fascinating stuff.
Additional information is in Schweikart's "Banking in the American South" and the Spring 1995 issue of the "Tennessee Historical Quarterly".
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