United States Money:
A Guide to Information Sources

Compiled by Ellen Terrell
Business Reference Services
August 2005

This guide covers selected resources on the history of money in the United States from colonial times to the present. Although the focus is on the United States, we have included a few selected resources that also briefly cover the early history of money elsewhere in the world. The guide includes general online and print resources along with hot links to relevant subject searches in the Library of Congress online catalog.

 Table of Contents

HOME
Paper Money
Coins
Associations &
Government Agencies
For Kids
Museums/Exhibits
Additional Reading
Internet Resources
LC Subject Searches

 

Image (left):
Woman posed with stack of packages of $1 silver certificates at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, Washington, D.C. [between ca. 1950 and ca. 1969]
Prints and Photographs Division (Library of Congress) Reproduction number:
LC-USZ62-92466