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Where the Civil War was Financed
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Creator
Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927
Title
Where the Civil War was Financed
Date
ca. 1922
Notes
View of a five-story office building and an adjacent classical-style building on a busy street.
Jay Cooke was a young banker from Ohio connected, in 1861, with a prominent banking house in Philadelphia. When the national government required vast sums to put and keep the Union forces in the field, he was among the first to respond. He located in the building upon Third Street, adjoining the Girard Bank, and organized the greatest advertising campaign ever known. Throughout the war his agents scoured the entire north. He was able to supply the Federal cause, through those historic years, with money to the total of $1,500,000,000, at the rate of four and one-half per cent. interest. For this service his firm was paid about one-sixteenth of one per cent.
Taylor Catalog Number: 348
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Frank H. Taylor Collection
Identifier
Taylor - Case 7-20 [2717.F]
Call number
Taylor - Case 7-20 [2717.F]
Image file
Taylor-7-20.tif
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Frank H. Taylor Illustration Collection
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