School notebook promotional

Blue-tinted school notebook from the Turkish bank Türkiye Is Bankasi. Depiction of a young naval cadet with a rifle and a portable piggy bank. Turkish inscriptions accompany the illustration.

  • Accession Number 2020.02.2028
  • Period 3rd quarter of the 20th century
  • Measurements 24,5 x 16,5 cm
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Historical context

At the beginning of the 19th century, savings banks were created in Great Britain by fraternal benefit societies. They spread to several countries, before rapidly forming associations to coordinate the promotion of savings, notably through piggy banks.

In the Ottoman Empire, in the second half of the 19th century, the need for a banking system grew. It was European financiers who initiated the creation of such a system, with the pa...

  • Accession Number 2020.02.2028
  • Period 3rd quarter of the 20th century
  • Measurements 24,5 x 16,5 cm
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© Pointe-à-Callière Collection, 2020.002.2028

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