[Colonial currency]
Title:
[Colonial currency]
Description:
Dutch immigrant Anne Catharine Hoof Green worked alongside her husband in his Maryland printing business. When he died in 1767, she inherited his bankruptcy debt along with the shop—a pattern repeated in the lives of many women printers. She went on to successfully petition the state assembly to continue her appointment as public printer to the Province of Maryland. Sympathetic to the Revolution, she ran a busy shop and post office, printing books, pamphlets, almanacs, and colonial currency. She paid off the debt. Green used the process of nature printing to protect against counterfeiting.
Creator:
Green, Anne Catharine (Printer)
Publisher:
Printed by A. C. and W. Green
Date:
1770
Coverage:
[Annapolis, Maryland]
Display Date:
[ca. 1770-1774]
Hover Text:
Anne Catharine Green — printer
Published Item:
U
Item Index:
12
Item Sort:
1700s
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