Confederate Currency- Five Dollars, Keatinge & Ball
The engravings were likely done by Edward Keatinge, who had worked for the American Bank Note Company in New York City. Recruited by the Confederacy for its treasury department when the war broke out, Keatinge teamed with Virginian Thomas A. Ball to form Keatinge & Ball in Richmond. Soon the firm removed to a more secure location in Columbia, South Carolina. Once there, they produced Confederate currency using equipment and supplies brought in through the Federal blockade. General Sherman destroyed these facilities in February 1865. Portrait of C.G. Memminger at center and Minerva at right above Roman numeral V.
Artwork Details
- Title: Confederate Currency- Five Dollars, Keatinge & Ball
- Engraver: Keatinge & Ball
- Date: 1861
- Medium: Engraving
- Dimensions: Sheet: 3 in. × 7 3/8 in. (7.6 × 18.7 cm)
- Classifications: Prints, Ephemera
- Credit Line: Gift of Secretary of the Treasury, Franklin MacVeagh, 1913
- Object Number: 13.3.1
- Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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