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1915 Chapbook or pamphlet meant to serve as a calendar and guidebook for banking and personal finance.

Published by Brown & Bigelow, a company founded in 1896 by Herbert Huse Bigelow and Hiram Brown. Printers of calendars in Boston, Massachusetts. The company is now headquartered in Minnesota. The company itself has quite a colorful history and is worth looking up for some notable episodes and works published.

"READY REFERENCE CALENDAR OF BANKING

Published by this institution exclusively for the convenience and assistance of our many friends, containing facts and a few figures that are of especial interest to all.

COMBINED WITH DAILY MEMORANDA FOR THE YEAR

We recommend your careful perusal of this Ready Reference Calendar of Banking. We hope that it may be favored with a convenient place on your walls. We ask that we be remembered when you have any financial transactions or need the services of our modern banking institution."

16 pages, 6" wide by 9" tall, bound with staples and yarn.

The centerfold is a gallery of United States presidents. Each page has a calendar month and topics of finance.

Topics include: Opening An Account, Joint Account, Identification, Deposit Slips, Checks, Endorsements, Interest, Certificate of Deposit, Certified Checks, Notes, Exchange, Protest, Drafts and Acceptances, Overdrafts, Domestic Drafts and Cashiers' Checks, Letters of Credit, Loans, Lost Paper, Forgery, Deeds, Abstracts, Mortgages, Wills, Executors, Administrators, Trustees, Stocks and Bonds, Bills of Lading, Law of Contracts, Interest Table, Value of Foreign Monies, Personal Income Tax Law.

Resources that may fill out the history or context of this piece:

Remembrance Calendars publ. by Brown & Bigelow