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It is Billy Joel's birthday, so today we see a vignette of cherubs playing a piano. It's on a Tiffany Bros Commission note, a combo ad note/shinplaster used by various merchants in the Panic of 1873 years. This one was worth $20 off the price of a piano or organ from John F. Cooper in Sacramento.🗃️

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It is Billy Joel's birthday, so today we see a vignette of cherubs playing a piano. It's on a Tiffany Bros Commission note, a combo ad note/shinplaster used by various merchants in the Panic of 1873 years. This one was worth $20 off the price of a piano or organ from John F. Cooper in Sacramento.🗃️

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I saw Sinners the other night and I couldn't get over how much it spoke to the new Commonplace piece by @rybeddard.bsky.social which details the links between BaKongo cosmology, Christianity, life/death, conjure bags, and the 1730 Chesapeake Rebellion.🗃️ commonplace.online/article/the-...

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Just noticed that the draft program for SHEAR 2025 is out. The social media page lists places to follow SHEAR as X, Facebook, Instagram, and Mastadon. Anyone know if they are planning to start using Bluesky and adding it to program? 🗃️ @mrsidetable.bsky.social @profmsinha.bsky.social

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I saw Sinners the other night and I couldn't get over how much it spoke to the new Commonplace piece by @rybeddard.bsky.social which details the links between BaKongo cosmology, Christianity, life/death, conjure bags, and the 1730 Chesapeake Rebellion.🗃️ commonplace.online/article/the-...

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The founding of New Orleans in 1718 is customarily celebrated OTD, so today's bank note features a detailed antebellum street scene vignette of the French Quarter. At the center is the headquarters of the Bank of Louisiana, located on Royal Street. Bank of Louisiana, New Orleans, $20, May 25, 1848.🗃️

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How did African religious beliefs and practices inform reactions to slavery in colonial Virginia? Check out Ryne Beddard's @rybeddard.bsky.social fascinating new piece at Commonplace @commonplacejrnl.bsky.social on BaKongo cosmology and the Chesapeake Rebellion.🗃️ commonplace.online/article/the-...

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How did African religious beliefs and practices inform reactions to slavery in colonial Virginia? Check out Ryne Beddard's @rybeddard.bsky.social fascinating new piece at Commonplace @commonplacejrnl.bsky.social on BaKongo cosmology and the Chesapeake Rebellion.🗃️ commonplace.online/article/the-...

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Happy May the fourth. In honor of Star Wars Day, we have this bank note vignette: It’s a trap . . . technically a beaver trap. Bank of St Louis, MO Territory, $5, March 18, 1817. 🗃️

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Happy May the fourth. In honor of Star Wars Day, we have this bank note vignette: It’s a trap . . . technically a beaver trap. Bank of St Louis, MO Territory, $5, March 18, 1817. 🗃️

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Happy Birthday to Elias Boudinot, President of the Confederation Congress and a member of Congress before the Director of the United States Mint under Washington, Adams, and Jefferson. His very receding hairline appears on this insurance bank note. Augusta Insurance and Banking Co, GA, $20, 18--.🗃️

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Happy Birthday to Elias Boudinot, President of the Confederation Congress and a member of Congress before the Director of the United States Mint under Washington, Adams, and Jefferson. His very receding hairline appears on this insurance bank note. Augusta Insurance and Banking Co, GA, $20, 18--.🗃️

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For May Day here is protest money issued by the IWW during the Nevada Goldfield Miners Strike. Workers struck after owners replaced cash wages with scrip due to the Panic of 1907. The notes reference the Exploitation Mercantile Company, In Gold we Trust, and President Teddy Roosevelt (Teddy Bear). 🗃️

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May Day image: Edward W. Clay, A Strike! A Strike (1836). One of the first union-related cartoons printed around People v. Faulkner (labor conspiracy case of NYC journeymen tailors) it shows farms animals on strike near a market with reference to earlier anti-union ruling of Justice John Savage. 🗃️

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May Day image: Edward W. Clay, A Strike! A Strike (1836). One of the first union-related cartoons printed around People v. Faulkner (labor conspiracy case of NYC journeymen tailors) it shows farms animals on strike near a market with reference to earlier anti-union ruling of Justice John Savage. 🗃️

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For May Day here is protest money issued by the IWW during the Nevada Goldfield Miners Strike. Workers struck after owners replaced cash wages with scrip due to the Panic of 1907. The notes reference the Exploitation Mercantile Company, In Gold we Trust, and President Teddy Roosevelt (Teddy Bear). 🗃️

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Today would have been the 101st birthday of blues legend Big Maybelle (Mabel Smith). Here is one of my favorites of her songs, “That’s a Pretty Good Love,” co-written and produced by my grandfather, Fred Mendelsohn. youtu.be/K-mVG2jrmRs?...

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I promise this is the best thing you’ll see all day

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@aaslh.bsky.social - please help us at the @thejerpano.bsky.social track changes to federal websites, park sites, etc.-- we need to know how Trump is altering interpretations of the past- if you know of a change, please complete the form at the following link (and please share with colleagues):

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It is #IndieBookstoreDay so today's Civil War shinplaster comes from a Salem bookstore that also sold stationary and wallpaper. It was overprinted to change its value from $.10, but still includes an excellent vignette of the inside of the shop on the reverse. George Creamer, Salem, MA, $.02, 186-.🗃️

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It is #IndieBookstoreDay so today's Civil War shinplaster comes from a Salem bookstore that also sold stationary and wallpaper. It was overprinted to change its value from $.10, but still includes an excellent vignette of the inside of the shop on the reverse. George Creamer, Salem, MA, $.02, 186-.🗃️

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Movie you’ve watched more than six times using gifs. (“Hard mode” no Star Wars, Star Trek, or LOTR)

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The USDA will apparently not require poultry companies to limit salmonella bacteria in their chickens moving forward. On the brighter side, here is a lovely vignette of some antebellum chickens that are too long dead to make you sick. Morris County Bank, Morristown, NJ, $20, 18--.🗃️

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The USDA will apparently not require poultry companies to limit salmonella bacteria in their chickens moving forward. On the brighter side, here is a lovely vignette of some antebellum chickens that are too long dead to make you sick. Morris County Bank, Morristown, NJ, $20, 18--.🗃️

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I am doing some writing today on currency and banking in 1840s Wisconsin and it reminded me of one of my favorite graffitied notes. A woman's portrait has been altered after the fact with a pair of glasses and a Van Dyke. Hemenway's Bank of Deposite & Exchange, Milwaukee, WI, $1, April 20, 1849. 🗃️

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I am doing some writing today on currency and banking in 1840s Wisconsin and it reminded me of one of my favorite graffitied notes. A woman's portrait has been altered after the fact with a pair of glasses and a Van Dyke. Hemenway's Bank of Deposite & Exchange, Milwaukee, WI, $1, April 20, 1849. 🗃️

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It is James Buchanan's birthday. When I was younger, he was higher on the list of bad presidents. His portrait, with Ed Grimley hairstyle, appears on this otherwise lovely bill from his home state of Pennsylvania that also has a woman and cows. Monongahela Valley Bank, McKee's Port, PA, $5, 18--. 🗃️

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In a new review on @commonplacejrnl.bsky.social, Max Chapnick looks at Todd Carmody's thought-provoking Work Requirements: Race, Disability, and the Print Culture of Social Welfare, a fascinating read on the manufacture of American assumptions about work. 🗃️ commonplace.online/article/the-...

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