Another young and angelic lovely graced this note in the 1875 series, but dated 1880 for the bank: Back in the 19th century, the world was devoid of internet based pornography etc., and seriously, one was quite challenged to find attractive females in print, except for paper money. Can you imagine such a note as this being issued today? The furor would have PETA, NOW etc. burning Washington. But the 19th century was different, more tolerance on paper money, if not in any other form of media, remember, this is the Gilded Victorian Age. Back in the early days of National Bank note issues, they could vary designs to a certain degree, this was stopped after the 1880's and the designs, if not the bank names, were uniform. This note has a vignette of Benjamin Franklin flying his kite and with key in hand, and a lovely bare breasted miss with an allegorical American eagle on the right, the reverse has the seen of Hernando De Soto's discovery of the Mississippi river, notice in the centre of the vignette, the two bare breasted misses, again. Three bare females on one note, not even the famous Educational $5 Silver certificate of 1896 can claim that!
