Conditions Governing Use

The materials from Washington and Lee University Special Collections are made available for use in research, teaching, and private study, pursuant to U.S. Copyright law. The user assumes full responsibility for any use of the materials, including but not limited to, infringement of copyright and publication rights of reproduced materials. Any materials used should be fully credited with the source.

Conditions Governing Access

The collection is open for research use.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Peoples National Bank Collection (RHS Coll. 0030), Special Collections and Archives, James G. Leyburn Library, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Va.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

The $10 Peoples National Bank note was a gift to the Rockbridge Historical Society of Skip Hess of Lexington, Virginia in May or June of 2019.

Scope and Contents

This collection contains a printed pamphlet entitled "The Peoples National Bank of Lexington, Virginia: Statement of Condition, July 1, 1911," a 1937 photograph of two African-American men, one with a jack hammer, demolishing a section of the Peoples National Bank which was originally located in Lexington's "Tutwiler Building," and a ten dollar national currency note printed by the United States Federal Reserve for the Peoples Bank of Lexington and with its name included on the bill. The bank note depicts President William McKinley. The Officers and Directors of ... invite you to visit their new Banking Rooms during the observance of their Thirty-first Anniversary ...

Also includes an early "Join Our Christmas Club" Blotter, The Peoples National Bank, and a 40th Anniversary brochure.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

• Paper money