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In its first hundred years, the firm helped to make paper currency standard in the U.S., underwrote the earliest railroad and trans-Atlantic steamship companies and almost unilaterally created the first foreign exchange system between the
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became a cornerstone of what came to be known as “the
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to celebrate the firm's 150th anniversary in 1968. These files are held at the
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