Senate Report Com. No. 185. Franklin Peale's statement regarding his accomplishments while an employee of the United States Mint. From the 34th Congress, 1st Session.
U.S. National Archives (Record Group 104, Entry 215, Press Copies of Letters to the Branch Mints, 1836-1871)
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Treasury Secretary Guthrie requests Mint Director Snowden to effect coinage of dimes and half dimes at New Orleans U.S. National Archives, Record Group 104 Entry 215, Volume 6.
U.S. National Archives (Record Group 104, Entry 214, Letters Sent 1836-1870)
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Treasury Secretary Guthrie authorizes Mint Director Snowden to suspend operations at the New Orleans Mint. U.S. National Archives, Record Group 104 Entry 214, Volume 2.
Numismatic selections from Scientific American: 1856. Gold Coinage - p320 (11 n 40); Old Silver Coin - p102 (12 n 13); Photographic Bank Notes, 9/13; To Prevent the Alteration of Bank Notes, 1/19 (11n19); To Detect Photographic Bank Notes, 9/20; United States Mint, 7/26; The Philadelphia Mint, 7/12; Many-Colored Bank Note Counterfeits, 05/10 (11 n 35).
The extended title reads: "Or, an illustrated treatise on the detection of counterfeit, altered, and spurious bank notes, with original bank note plates and designs, by Rawdon, Wright, Hatch, & Edson, bank note engravers, of New York. The whole forming an unerring guide, by which every person can, on examination, detect spurious bank notes of every description, no matter how well executed they may appear."
