National Bank of Commerce Ten Dollar Bill
This work is an oversized print model of a ten-dollar bill as printed by the National Bank of Commerce in Kansas City, Missouri, in 1907. As opposed to the centrally-oriented bills of the present day, this bill frames the United States' twenty-fifth president, William McKinley, on the left-hand side. Nearer the center of the bill is the bolded statement "The National Bank of Commerce of Kansas City, Missouri will pay to the bearer on demand ten dollars" with numerous bank note insignia across the rest of the bill. The National Bank of Commerce was chartered as the Kansas City Savings Bank in 1865, and soon after being acquired by Dr. William Stone Woods in 1881, became a national charter renamed the National Bank of Commerce. As the Federal Reserve System was not established until 1913, the bank was also responsible for printing its own money but was of the few in the country after the National Bank Panic of 1893 with enough liquidity to do so.