The Images: Field Scenes
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T-41 Confederate States of America, $100 (1862)[singlepic id=344 w=auto h=16 float=inline]
State of Alabama, $5 (1864)[singlepic id=243 w=auto h=16 float=inline]
Southern Bank of Kentucky, $5 (1853)[singlepic id=278 w=auto h=16 float=inline]
Michigan, Adrian Insurance Company, $1 (1853) (full note not pictured)
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It is unusual to find a plantation related vignette on a Northern note. The Planters Bank of New York has one, for example. The Michigan vignette is significant in that the image is extended a full inch to the right making up one seventh of a seven inch wide note. It also has greater clarity of engraving than either the State of Alabama or the Southern Bank of Kentucky.
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State of South Carolina, $50 (1857)[singlepic id=316 w=auto h=16 float=inline]
Tennessee, Bank of Chattanooga, $3 (1863)[singlepic id=329 w=auto h=16 float=inline]
State of Missouri, $50 Defense Bond (no date)[singlepic id=306 w=auto h=16 float=inline]
State of Mississippi, $100 Treasury Note[singlepic id=304 w=auto h=16 float=inline]
State of Florida, $1 (1864)[singlepic id=254 w=auto h=16 float=inline]
Georgia Savings Bank, $20 (1867)[singlepic id=274 w=auto h=16 float=inline]
Georgia, Farmers & Mechanics Bank, $2 (not pictured)
[singlepic id=196 h=100 float=left] The “mother” of several notes is the Central Bank of Alabama, $10 (1857)[singlepic id=246 w=auto h=16 float=inline]. This vignette covers eighty percent of left and top of the note.
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Two “sub-vignettes” are seen in several other states:
Alabama, Selma, Marion & Memphis RR Co., $2 (1871)[singlepic id=250 w=auto h=16 float=inline]
Virginia, Traders Bank of Richmond, $50 (UNC)[singlepic id=335 w=auto h=16 float=inline]
Virginia, Town of Staunton, 25 cents (no date)[singlepic id=337 w=auto h=16 float=inline]
South Carolina, Corporation of Columbia, 5 cents (1861)[singlepic id=320 w=auto h=16 float=inline]
Louisiana, Geo. W. Gregor & Co., 100 cents (1860s)[singlepic id=284 w=auto h=16 float=inline]
State of Florida, $10 (1862) (not pictured)
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A variation of the image, in which the woman’s face has been altered, can be found on a sight draft from 1877[singlepic id=194 w=auto h=16 float=inline].
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North Carolina, Miners & Planters Bank, $10 (1860)[singlepic id=309 w=auto h=16 float=inline]
Georgia, Bank of Columbus, $20 (1856)[singlepic id=262 w=auto h=16 float=inline]
