Dividend check from Freedman's Savings and Trust Company

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This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

This is a dividend check for 20 cents issued by the Office of the Commissioners of the Freedman’s Savings and Trust Company to Robert Walker. It consists of a rectangular piece of paper with both printed text and graphic and handwritten text. Across the top margin of the check is printed text that reads “Check No. (76694) Office/ of the/ COMMISSIONERS/ of the/ FREEDMAN’S/ SAVINGS/and/TRUST COMPANY.” Below the check number is the printed word “Account No.“ followed by a blank space with handwritten text that reads “4154.” Below the name of the bank is printed text that reads “WASHINGTON, D.C.” and a bank space with handwritten text that reads “Sept 1st 1880.” Against the center left margin is an image of Abraham Lincoln in an octagonal window. Shown from the chest up, he wears a light-colored shirt under a dark colored coat, vest, and cravat. He is turned a quarter-turn from the viewer.

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