Women Making Financial History

Wells Fargo History Museum, San Francisco
Through Spring 2010

Women Making Financial History explores the topic of women and money from the frontier to the present. The exhibition features women’s roles in managing money, earning money, and investing money — then and now. 

Exhibits include:

• A 1920’s banking space. Try out old banking machines and technologies. Learn about women in the banking industry, as customers and as bankers.

• Prominent women in Wells Fargo’s history, and their work with customers since gold rush days.

• Vintage TV and radio ads and shows.

• A money vault, with historic and contemporary currency made by women at the US Mint and the US Treasury.

• Your opportunity to create your own currency, with digital photo technology.

• Contemporary issues of women in the global economy.  Link to the International Museum of Women’s on-line exhibit, “ECONOMICA: Women and the Global Economy”