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03741aam a2200421 a 4500 001 9F34E93AD72E11E7950E963597128E48 003 SILO 005 20171202010023 008 120906s2011 gaua b 001 0 eng d 010 $a 2011279693 020 $a 9780794832445 020 $a 079483244X 035 $a (OCoLC)719585263 040 $a XDR $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d XDR $d QQ3 $d NJG $d YDXCP $d OCLCO $d OCLCQ $d SILO 042 $a lccopycat 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a HG459 $b .O76 2011 082 04 $a 737 ORO 100 1 $a Orosz, Joel J. 245 14 $a The secret history of the first U.S. mint : $b how Frank H. Stewart destroyed and then saved a national treasure / $c Joel J. Orosz, Leonard D. Augsburger, foreword by Eric P. Newman. 260 $a Atlanta, GA : $b Whitman Pub., $c ©2011. 300 $a xvii, 318 pages : $b illustrations (some color) ; $c 28 cm. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-316) and index. 520 $a Frank H. Stewart is both the hero and the villain in this remarkable tale ripped from the headlines of early 20th century Philadelphia. He was a high school dropout who wrote the definitive history of our nation's first coin factory. He was no art connoisseur, and yet he commissioned unforgettable paintings of the first U.S. Mint, by famous artists. A poor boy made good, Stewart bought the old Mint, labored to preserve it, and failed in the most dramatic way possible. Could his later acts of commemoration redeem his failures in preservation? The Secret History of the First U.S. Mint tells, for the first time, the full story of the paradoxical Frank H. Stewart and his self-appointed life's mission to celebrate an irreplaceable slice of our nations heritage. It is a tour-de-force work of scholarship that sets straight long misunderstood Mint history. This groundbreaking new book by award winning authors Joel Orosz and Leonard Augsburger is filled with dozens of sketches, paintings, and photographs of the first Mint that have been preserved in archival collections for decades, and have not been seen by living. 505 0 $a Introduction : The Declaration House : foreshadowing of the first mint's fate -- The man, the mint, and the masterpiece -- Frank Huling Stewart : the man who owned the first United States Mint -- "A very mean house" : the first United States Mint, 1792-1911 -- The Frank H. Stewart Collection : relics of the first United States Mint -- The Frank H. Stewart Collection : coins created at the first United States Mint -- Frank H. Stewart's commissioned artworks : Edwin Lamasure's Cradle of Liberty and Ye olde mint -- Frank H. Stewart's commissioned artworks : John Ward Sunsmore's Inspection of the first dies and Washington inspecting the first money coined by the United States -- Artworks inspired by Frank H. Stewart's commissions : Frank J. Reilly's Director of the first U.S. Mint inspecting initial coinage, Philadelphia, 1792 and Hy Hintermeister's Washington examining the first coin -- The fate of the Stewart Collection : Congress Hall, the National Park Service, and Rowan University -- The last days of Frank H. Stewart -- Afterword : The mint as it was, the mint as Stewart fixed it in memory. 600 10 $a Stewart, Frank H., $d 1873-1948. 650 0 $a Mints $z United States $x History. 610 20 $a Old Mint Building (Philadelphia, Pa.) 650 0 $a Coinage $z United States $x History. 650 0 $a Coins. 650 0 $a Money. 650 0 $a Conservationists $z United States $v Biography. 700 1 $a Augsburger, Leonard. 941 $a 2 952 $l YEPF572 $d 20200204091217.0 952 $l TYPH572 $d 20200110073109.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=9F34E93AD72E11E7950E963597128E48 994 $a C0 $b IWRInitiate Another SILO Locator Search