U.S. National Archives (Record Group 104, Entry 216, Letters Received from Branch Mints and Assay Offices, 1834-1873)
描述:
Mint Director Snowden writes to Treasury Secretary Guthrie regarding excess coin in the New Orleans Mint vaults. U.S. National Archives, Record Group 104 Entry 216, Volume 14.
A manuscript document containing miscellaneous accounts of the U.S. Mint Director from 1855 to 1869.This document is held privately and does not reside in the National Archives.
R. W. Julian notes that entries were recorded by or for Chief Engraver James B. Longacre as a record of medal department expenses, and submitted to the Mint Director for approval.
Newman Portal acknowledges Craig Sholley and Fred Weinberg for this assistance in making this document available.
U.S. Mint medal and proof coin records from the National Archives, digitized from microfilm ordered by R. W. Julian, covering the period 1855 to 1923. Material includes:
U.S. National Archives (Record Group 104, Entry 216, Letters Received from Branch Mints and Assay Offices, 1834-1873)
描述:
U.S. Mint correspondence from the National Archives & Records Administration (NARA), record group 104 (U.S. Mint), entry 216 (letters received from branch Mints), volume 13, covering January 4, 1855 to December 31, 1855. Note index at beginning of volume. Courtesy of Roger W. Burdette.
[xii, [13]-300 p. : 20 cm,--Howes' U.S.IANA H-401. Wheat 96, Cowan page 274: "An entertaining book. One chapter is closed with the charming remarkthat "It is my unbiased opinion that California can and does furnish the best bad things that are obtainable in America.: Land of Gold is one of the most famous works on the California Gold Rush. Cowan also notes that the work includes "one of the best accounts we have of early San Francisco." though Helper generally ridicules and is quite critical of life in California. He claimed that the publisher forced him to eliminate certain criticisms of slavery based on his observation of free labor in California. After Helper's 1851-1854 sojourn in the Golden State, he returned to South Carolina where in 1857, he wrote a work establishing his greater fame as that rarest of birds, a Southern abolitionist. The Impending Crisis of the South caused a sensation, far greater at the time than that produced by Uncle Tom's Cabin. Lincoln appointed Helper as United States consul in Buenos Aires from 1861 to 1866 and following the war, Helper changed feathers and became a vocal white supremacist. In subsequent years, he singlemindedly promoted a schme to build an intercontinental railroad connecting North and South America which would displace back and brown peoples by whites. Born into poverty, his monomania on the railway plan 9he came to term himself "the new Christopher Columbus"), returned him in later life to that state. Despondent and bitter, he committed suicice in Washington and was buried by strangers.--Auction catalog notation,Lot #94 in Kolbe Numismatic literature sale #111 (Jan. 9, 2010),Original morocco-grained brown cloth, intricately stamped in blind. Gilt lettering on spine with gilt impression of a miner with pick and pan found at base,catalog 2010-12-14]. American Numismatic Society copy.
