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Stories from the Archives: The Thrift Movement

Senior Director of Programs and Services Beth Twiss Houting discusses documents relating to the thrift movement of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The movement produced a number of programs, such as the School Savings Bank, which taught schoolchildren the value of saving money. For more information on these images, please visit the Digital Library.


In the Stories From the Archives video series, an HSP staff member highlights one of his or her favorite items from the collection.

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Topics: 
19th century
20th century
Banking
Business
Economics
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