First National Bank $10
Series 1875 $10 First Charter Fr. 416. Charter #134, Providence
Signed by Nelson W. Aldrich, who later became a U.S. Senator and helped create the Federal Reserve. Aldrich was the grandfather of Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller, the Governor of New York and Vice President of the United States under Gerald Ford.
Detail of vignette: “De Soto Discovering the Mississippi, 1541.”