You are invited to the Brown Bag Lecture Series

 Wednesday, February 9, 2005

12 noon to 1 p.m

NEEDS AND OPPORTUNITIES IN TEXAS BANKING HISTORY:  THE BARR-ROWE CURRENCY COLLECTION AT DEGOLYER LIBRARY

John Rowe and Martin Davis, collectors

The Barr-Rowe Currency Collection, recently donated to the DeGolyer Library, is the finest collection of Texas bank notes in the United States.  Hundreds of Texas towns are represented.  Two experts in the field will discuss how bank notes can be studied as specimens of the printing and engraving trades, as examples of popular iconography, as evidence in micro-histories of individual banks and communities, and as part of the larger story of economic history of Texas and the United States.  Marty Davis, an attorney and CPA, has written and published scholarly articles on Texas and South Carolina history.  John Rowe is the founder of Southwest Numismatics, the leading coin and currency dealer in the region. With his brother-in-law B.B. Barr, Mr. Rowe has donated his bank note collection to SMU. 

In the Texana Room, DeGolyer Library

(6404 Hilltop Ln. & McFarlin Blvd).

For more information or if you need special accommodations, please call 214-768-3684 or email swcenter@smu.edu.

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Last updated January 6, 2005.