AKP8373 SOURCES OF ILLUSTRATIONS Frontispiece: The Library of Congress, Toner Collection, Rare Book Room. CHAPTER 2 CHAPTER 3 CHAPTER 4 13: The Chase Manhattan Bank Money Museum. 14: Robert Friedberg, 35: Robert Friedberg, Paper Money of the United States. 38: United States 56: Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, March 10, 1888. 58: National CHAPTER 5 91: Robert Friedberg, Paper Money of the United States. 94: Board of CHAPTER 6 CHAPTER 7 CHAPTER 8 119: Courtesy of First National Bank of Bloomington, Indiana. 120: 142: American Bankers Association, The Common Machine Language for All illustrations: Office of the Comptroller of the Currency. The Comptroller and Bank Supervision has been prepared at the direction of the Office of t Printed in the United States of America by the McCall Printing Company Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 68-60034 iv DEPOSITORY Foreword 'n recent years the Office of the Comptroller has received a growing number of inquiries from the academic and business communities about the history and functions of the Office. A variety of published materials, ranging from speeches and testimony of incumbent Comptrollers to official Annual Reports, has always been available. Yet no single work providing requested information in convenient form was ever prepared for classroom use or business reference. Responding to an apparent public need, the Comptroller of the Currency two years ago commissioned this book by Professor Robertson, a leading student of the financial history of the United States. In accordance with established procedures, this Office permitted unrestricted access to source materials and furnished research and other assistance without any stipulations regarding the scope of the published work or the conclusions reached. Like other scholarly publications of the Office, this book is published under the sponsorship of the Office of the Comptroller without official commitment to the views expressed. During the period of preparation of The Comptroller and Bank Supervision the officials and staff of the Office have benefited from information and ideas developed in their historical setting. It is our hope that this examination of the role of one of the oldest of the regulatory agencies will prove equally beneficial to the reading public. Washington, D.C. January 1968 vii William B. Camp Comptroller of the Currency |