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Sheet of paper currency containing four bills (two $1, one $2, one $3). Printed by W.L. Ormsby, New York, and issued in Kansas Territory by the City Bank of Leavenworth.
This private bank opened for business in 1856 and issued large amounts of unsecured paper money before it failed in the Panic of 1857.
Creator: W.L. Ormsby
Date: 1857
Item Number: 221158
Call Number: 1877.37.0
KSHS Identifier: 1877.37.0
Business and Industry - Banking - Banks
Collections - Museum
Date - 1854-1860 - 1857
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Exchange Medium - Currency
Places - Cities and towns - Leavenworth
Places - Counties - Leavenworth
Thematic Time Period - Bleeding Kansas, 1854 - 1861
Type of Material - Objects and Artifacts
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