New Orleans Savings Bank;Banks and banking -- Accounting;Banks and banking -- Louisiana -- History;Account books -- History
This is a case study of the history, operating practices and financial reporting system of an antebellum-era financial institution. The New Orleans Savings Bank, which served the people of Louisiana from 1827 to 1842, was founded as a philanthropic...
House of Brown;Brown Brothers and Company;Banks and Banking -- Accounting
This article focuses on the contents of two nineteenth-century letters which discuss the allocation of income among the partners of a leading Anglo-American merchant banking firm, the House of Brown. The writers debate alternative methods of...
Money; Wealth; Great Britain -- Politics and government; Banks and banking; Social classes; Social conflict; Poor; Poverty; Aristocracy (Social class); Wit and humor; Popular music -- England -- 19th century;
The poor are paying their share and more for the country.