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Proof Sheets of the Continental Twenty Dollar Bills

Object Status:

Unlocated

Accession Date:

January 6, 1812

Primary Source Reference:

Peale Museum Accessions Book, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, p. 59

Notes:

Louis (or Lewis) Franklin Bache (1779-1818) was Benjamin Franklin's grandson. It is not clear why the source gave him the honorific "Dr."; he was not in the medical profession, although his older brother William was a physician.