Guide to Bimetallism and the National Currency System Pamphlets


Collection Summary

Title: Bimetallism and the National Currency System Pamphlets
Call Number: MS 72-3
Size: 0.5 linear feet
Acquisition: Unknown.
Processed by: SMC, 11/6/1997



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Content Note

This collection contains pamphlets concerning bimetallism, defined as the use of gold and silver as the monetary standard of currency and value, and the National Currency System, a system that refers to currency that is a portion of the national money supply consisting of bank notes and government-issued paper money and coins, and is not backed by precious metals any longer. The volume of currency is determined by the actions of the government or central bank and not by the supply of precious metals. Written in the late 1800s and early 1900s, these pamphlets include discussions of monetary and currency questions by Abraham Lincoln, William McKinley, William Sherman, and others.


Administrative History

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Series Listing

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Box and Folder Listing

Box 1 FF 1 Conner, John B.   Facts About the Silver Question and Low Prices. (1891?)
Box 1 FF 2  The Dangers to be Apprehended from a Debased Silver Coinage in the U. S. of America. (1894)
Box 1 FF 3 Davis, John Gold and Silver. 1896
Box 1 FF 4 Dingley, Nelson, Jr. The Treasury Condition 16 to 1 Free Silver. 1896
Box 1 FF 5 Fleming, W. B. Silver and Labor. (1896)
Box 1 FF 6 Groesbeck, W. S. Gold and Silver Address. 1877
Box 1 FF 7 Gunn, Otis Bullion vs. Coinage. 1895
Box 1 FF 8 Gunn, Otis B. The Monetary Question. Facts About Silver, Gold, & Paper Money. 1894
Box 1 FF 9 Holden, James D. Metallic Money and Hard Times. 1893
Box 1 FF 10 Ingalls, M. E. Greenbacks and Depreciated Silver Must Go. (1895)
Box 1 FF 11 June Number Coins Financial Series, No. 7. 1895
Box 1 FF 12 Leighton, George Why We Oppose Free Coinage. (1894)
Box 1 FF 13 Lincoln, Sherman, McKinley, and Others on Silver. (no date)
Box 1 FF 14 Lot of Five Campaign Leaflets and Folders on the Silver Question. (1896)
Box 1 FF 15 McLeod, Henry Dunning Silver Coinage Historically Considered. 1895
Box 1 FF 16 Miller, Henry G. Silver Legislation of 1890. (1890)
Box 1 FF 17 Nipher, Francis A Plain Talk on the Silver Question. 1896
Box 1 FF 18 Orton, Jesse Francis Shall We Change Our Money Standard. 1896
Box 1 FF 19 Peabody, Henry W. Address in Favor of Sound Money and Opposition to Bimetallism Theories. 1895
Box 1 FF 20 Peabody, Henry W. Address in Opposition to Bimetallism. 1895
Box 1 FF 21 Roberts, George E. Coin at School in Finance. 1895
Box 1 FF 22 St. John, William P. Convention of the National Silver Party. 1896
Box 1 FF 23 Sixteen to One. What It Means. Facts About Coinage, Plain Answers to Questions. (1891?)
Box 1 FF 24 Smith, Hoke What Free Coinage Means. 1895
Box 1 FF 25 Talbot, Thomas H. What Shall We Do With Our Silver. 1886
Box 1 FF 26 Terry, William L. The Battle of the Standards. (1896)
Box 1 FF 27 Wellborn, Fred The Influence of the Silver-Republican Senators. 1889-1891-1928
Box 2 FF 1 Brooks, Francis A. Objections Legal and Practical to the National Currency System. 1893
Box 2 FF 2 Cernuschi, Henri Monetary Diplomacy in 1878. 1878
Box 2 FF 3 Chamberlain,   D. H. The "Legal Tender" Decision of 1884. 1884
Box 2 FF 4 Clark, Gordon Historical, Political and Statistical Handbook of Money. 1896
Box 2 FF 5 Drew, John G. Our Currency: What It Is and What It Should Be. 1874
Box 2 FF 6 Gleed, C. S. A Plain Little Book on the Money Question. n. d.
Box 2 FF 7 Griffin, Albert The Hocus Pocus Money Book. 1904
Box 2 FF 8 Hazard, Roland Do You Want "Cheap Money"? 1895
Box 2 FF 9 Holden, James Scientific Money or Prosperity Through Legislation. 1894
Box 2 FF 10 Horr, Roswell G. and Harvey, William The Great Debate on the Financial Question. 1895
Box 2 FF 11 (Machinist, pseud. ) Wall Street and Its Working. 1896
Box 2 FF 12 Mills, F. D. A Brief on Banking and Currency. n. d.
Box 2 FF 13 Moody, Joel The First Principles of Money. 1892
Box 2 FF 14 Ripley, Alfred L. Currency and State Banks. 1895
Box 2 FF 15 Schurg, Carl Honest Money and Labor. 1879
Box 2 FF 16 Whitney, Henry Cheap Money and Wages. (no date)
Box 2 FF 17 White, Horace Money and Its Substitutes. 1882
Box 2 FF 18 Wilson, James W. Farm, Field and Fireside's Financial Catechism. 1896