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Collection Number: 04672

Collection Title: Miscellaneous stock certificates, bonds, and currency, 1810s-1920s

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Size 0.5 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 180 items)
Abstract Currency, bonds, stock certificates, and other items separated from various collections in the Southern Historical Collection. Much of the currency and many of the bonds were issued by the Confederate States of America; some is from other countries, including early examples of paper money from the Soviet Union. Also included are bonds issued by New York and other states and stock certificates and other papers issued by railroads and other companies.
Curatorial Unit University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.
Language English
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Restrictions to Access
No restrictions. Open for research.
Copyright Notice
Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], in the Miscellaneous stock certificates, bonds, and currency #4672, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Acquisitions Information
Transferred from various collections in the Southern Historical Collection.
Sensitive Materials Statement
Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, the North Carolina Public Records Act (N.C.G.S. § 132 1 et seq.), and Article 7 of the North Carolina State Personnel Act (Privacy of State Employee Personnel Records, N.C.G.S. § 126-22 et seq.). Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill assumes no responsibility.
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Currency, bonds, stock certificates, and other items separated from various collections in the Southern Historical Collection. Much of the currency and many of the bonds were issued by the Confederate States of America; some is from other countries, including early examples of paper money from the Soviet Union. Also included are bonds issued by New York and other states and stock certificates and other papers issued by railroads and other companies.

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Contents list

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Folder 1

11. Alexander and Hillhouse family: 9 bonds and stock certificates

21. Anderson, Robert Burton: 6 bonds and stock certificates

50. Battle, Ivan Proctor: 2 pieces of paper money

86. Brevard and McDowell family: 2 bonds

87. Broadfoot, Charles Wetmore: 2 pieces of paper money

112. Burwell family: 2 pieces of paper money

116. Buxton, Ralph Potts: 3 bonds

122. Cadman, George: 4 pieces of paper money

132. Calvert family: 1 piece of paper money

Folder 2

218. Dickens, Francis: 18 pieces of paper money

229. Dozier, Richard: bond payment coupons, 10 bonds, 1 stock bond

320. Haskell, Alexander: coupons for 5, 10, 25, 50, and 75 cents

324. Hayes family: 9 bonds

329. Caldwell, John: 1 certificate; 2 pieces of paper money

348. Hollingsworth, J. W.: 1 certificate

390. Judge, John: 1 bond

400. Mitchell, King: 1 piece of paper money

Folder 3

465. McGavrock family: 1 piece of paper money

488. Mann, Julian: 42 pieces of paper money

521. Moore and Gatling family: 4 bonds

578. Jones and Patterson family: 1 certificate

592. Pettigrew family: 1 piece of paper money

614. Purvis, John R.: 1 piece of paper money

616. Quitman family: 7 certificates; 2 pieces of paper money

641. Ruffin, Thomas: 5 bonds and certificates

643. Ruffin, Roulhac, and Hamilton family: 1 piece of paper money

661. Shepperd, Augustine H.: 2 certificates; 7 pieces of paper money

Folder 4

669. Skinner family: 3 certificates

677. Smith, Peter Evans: 1 bond

716. Thompson, Lewis: 31 certificates

Folder 5

744. Wadsworth, Mrs. J. D.: 2 pieces of paper money

772. White, James Wilson: 1 piece of paper money

773. White, John B. and Octavius A.: 2 certificates; 2 pieces of paper money

811. Hardy. R. L.: 1 piece of paper money

833. McLean, Ewen: 1 piece of paper money

917 Z. Miller, John S. R.: 9 pieces of money

972. Philips, James Jones: 2 certificates and bonds; 2 pieces of paper money

990. Styron, Arther: 1 certificate

1009. Elliott and Gonzales family: 2 certificates and bonds

1022. Ravenel family: 1 certificate

1060. Howell, Edward Vernon: 2 certificates and bonds

1090. Brown, Hamilton: 1 bond

1165. Rennie family: 1 piece of paper money

Folder 6

1256. Bank of Savannah: 2 certificates and bonds

1290. Haywood, Ernest: 2 certificates and bonds

1498. Anderson, George Wayne: 1 certificate; 4 pieces of paper money

1549. Starke, Marchant, and Martin family: 1 bond

1763. Confederate bonds: 11 bonds and certificates

1881. Peele, William Joseph: 1 certificate

Folder 7

2042. Jones, John Beauchamp: 1 bond

2232. Pember, Phoebe Yates: 1 piece of paper money

2441. Harrison, James Thomas: 1 piece of paper money

2605. Tucker family: 5 bonds and certificates

2711. Allen, George Washington: 2 pieces of paper money

Unknown: 5 bonds and certificates; 1 piece of paper money

Folder 8

2980. Shaw, Colin: 1 bond

3264. Norton, Chilton, and Dameron family: 8 bonds and certificates; 32 pieces of paper money

3808. Cowles, Calvin: 56 pieces of paper money

Folder 9

3954. Little, Benjamin Franklin: 8 bonds and certificates

3956. Snow, William Henry: 1 bond

3968. Pritchett, John Aston: 1 tax receipt; 3 pieces of paper money

4071. Long, Benjamin Franklin: 1 piece of paper money

4368. Venable, Francis: 2 bonds

4409. Manly family: 11 pieces of paper money

4505. Davis, Archie K.: 4 bonds and certificates

4686. Hooe, Hamilton, and Henderson Family: 15 pieces of paper money, including some from Japan, Syria, Greece, and the Soviet Union.

Unknown

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