Gibraltar Island autograph albums microform 1865-1925.

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Gibraltar Island autograph albums microform 1865-1925.

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Guest registers with autographs and sentiments written by individuals staying at the Gibraltar Island home of Jay Cooke just off Put-in-Bay, Lake Erie; part of a larger collection of Jay Cooke papers held by the Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center.

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Bowling Green State University, BGSU Libraries

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Bowling Green State University, BGSU Libraries

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Cooke, Jay, 1821-1905

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Banker, financier, and fiscal agent for the U.S. Treasury Dept. during the Civil War. From the description of Jay Cooke correspondence, 1884. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70983928 During the Civil War, Jay Cooke & Co. of Philadelphia developed the idea of selling government bonds, which capitalized on feelings of patriotism at the time and which were a major source of financing the war. Jay Cooke later was heavily involved in finanacing (unsuccessfully) the Northern Pa...