Canal Bank (New Orleans Canal Banking Company) bank note

five hundred dollar bank note

CURRENCY - PAPER MONEY
Rowdon, Wright, Hatch & Edson
USA, LA, New Orleans
After 1850
paper
Overall: 3 1/8 x 7 1/4 in.

Five hundred dollar bank note from Canal Bank (New Orleans Canal Banking Company), 18??; engraved by Rowdon, Wright, Hatch & Edson (New Orleans and NY); engraved vignette of sidewheel steamship ATLANTIC (bt. 1850), ship and another sidewheel steamship in background; lower left oval portrait of woman held by mermaid and merman; lower right vignette of putto and fish; bottom vignette of stern wheel steamer.

1996.150.5