History Instructing Youth

The scene on the note's obverse is allegorical and features a woman who is instructing a young boy about United States history.

[1] The notables listed include statesmen (John C. Calhoun, Henry Clay, Andrew Jackson, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, John Marshall, Daniel Webster, George Bancroft), military figures (Oliver Hazard Perry, William Tecumseh Sherman, David Farragut), writers (Washington Irving, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Nathaniel Hawthorne, James Fenimore Cooper, Ralph Waldo Emerson) and inventors (Robert Fulton, Samuel Morse).

[1] The $1 certificate's theme focused on the past and the two other denominations in the Educational Series, the $2 and $5, featured national progress and technology.

[7] The obverse of the note was designed by Will Hicok Low and it was called History Instructing Youth.

[11] The engraving for the obverse of the one-dollar History Instructing Youth note was done by Charles Schlecht.

[11][14] The depiction of Martha Washington on the silver certificate was the last time a woman appeared on United States paper money.

[1] The US Bureau of Engraving and Printing produced fifteen separate plates for the production of the note.

[19] The Educational Series came to be called "dirty dollars" because of objections towards the portrayal of unclothed women on notes.