U.S. Currency and the Pictures Behind The portraits


	U.S. Currency and the Pictures Behind The portraits

zenu1luv

7-13-2007 1:29 AM

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I never even thought about what influenced the images on our currency. Wow!

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/ce77dd54-47bb-40f3-b978-638edc440a9f/9CAA9BA5-0C8A-40F2-A0F5-AE882A9250E0/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.trackthetime.com/fun/us-currency-portraits" href="http://www.trackthetime.com/fun/us-currency-portraits" style="font-size: 11px;">www.trackthetime.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.trackthetime.com/fun/us-currency-portraits"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.trackthetime.com/img/FC75140E-F558-4015-836C-8219223EDDCC" alt="currency washington" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.trackthetime.com/fun/us-currency-portraits"><P><STRONG>George Washington:</STRONG> <A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilbert_Stuart">Gilbert Stuart</A> painted a number of portraits of George Washington. <A href="http://www.nga.gov/collection/gallery/gg60a/gg60a-1124.0.html">More than 100 in fact.</A> One of the biggest no-nos in the design community is the horizontal flipping of photos of people. Because your face is not perfectly symmetrical, it is frowned upon as a design technique.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.trackthetime.com/fun/us-currency-portraits"><P>Despite this, our $1 bill contains a reversed picture of George Washington.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.trackthetime.com/fun/us-currency-portraits"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.trackthetime.com/img/6CDB177F-BA89-4B88-A6CA-928105E10117" alt="currency Lincoln" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.trackthetime.com/fun/us-currency-portraits"><P><STRONG>Abraham Lincoln:</STRONG> The easiest of the bunch to declare an <A href="http://www.trackthetime.com/wp-content/uploads/lincoln.jpg">obvious match.</A></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.trackthetime.com/fun/us-currency-portraits"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.trackthetime.com/img/10D348E9-9E0C-4791-978F-1BFD6DA40204" alt="currency hamilton" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.trackthetime.com/fun/us-currency-portraits"><STRONG>Alexander Hamilton:</STRONG> <A href="http://www.ustreas.gov/education/history/secretaries/ahamilton.shtml">The first Secretary of the Treasury</A> (appointed by George Washington). </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.trackthetime.com/fun/us-currency-portraits"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.trackthetime.com/img/6DBE8618-94A2-475B-A109-6511F3DAC039" alt="currency jackson" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.trackthetime.com/fun/us-currency-portraits"><STRONG>Andrew Jackson:</STRONG> I bet you didn’t know that Grover Cleveland was on the $20 bill <A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_twenty-dollar_bill">in 1914.</A></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.trackthetime.com/fun/us-currency-portraits"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.trackthetime.com/img/3EC9CA68-FA0B-43A5-93E6-991D094B60DF" alt="currency grant" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.trackthetime.com/fun/us-currency-portraits"><STRONG>Ulysses S. Grant:</STRONG></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.trackthetime.com/fun/us-currency-portraits">It is obviously the same picture though, as you can see the hairline is the same.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.trackthetime.com/fun/us-currency-portraits"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.trackthetime.com/img/948BA4EC-E8DF-4858-B5D7-D2A39B403AAD" alt="currency franklin" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.trackthetime.com/fun/us-currency-portraits"><STRONG>Benjamin Franklin:</STRONG> Probably one of the coolest founding father. He wasn’t just a diplomat, but an electrical genius and very wise. </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.trackthetime.com/fun/us-currency-portraits"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.trackthetime.com/img/72EF8417-6BEA-427B-B190-AB3BFFB4BFCF" alt="two dollar bill" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.trackthetime.com/fun/us-currency-portraits"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.trackthetime.com/img/9FE8BC47-D10E-424B-B121-0EBD4BFD27E6" alt="currency two back" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.trackthetime.com/fun/us-currency-portraits"><STRONG>Bonus:</STRONG> The $2 bill is rarely used, but still printed</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.trackthetime.com/fun/us-currency-portraits">The painting on the reverse side is <A href="http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/trumbull.htm">John Trumbull’s “Declaration of Independence.”</A></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/9CAA9BA5-0C8A-40F2-A0F5-AE882A9250E0/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>