The collection consists of paper currency and one bond, all issued by the Confederate States of America or individual states of the Confederacy.
The items in this collection are organized by source: Hunt collection, Brewster collection, and U.S. Treasury Department collection.
This collection is open and available for research use.
Copyright restrictions may apply.
[Item Description]
Confederate States of America Currency Collection, circa 1860-1866 (Cage 4979)
Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University Libraries, Pullman, WA.
The Washington State University Libraries received these materials as gifts from three separate sources: Mr. and Mrs. Hal Hunt (date of gift unknown), Professor C. M. Brewster (1960), both originally cataloged as VF 385; and the United States Treasury Department (1912-1913), originally cataloged as VF 386. The three collections were merged and reprocessed in 2010.
Currency specimens are available in other collections held in MASC, including:
Ed Carver Currency Collection, 1885-1922
Tannatt family currency, Scrip, and Bond Collection, circa 1839-1864
Paul Philemon Kies Currency and Bond Collection, 1769-1865
William Band Papers, 1857-1989 (Series 7: Ephemera)
This collection is indexed under the following headings in the online catalog. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons, or places should search the catalog using these headings.