# Professor Richard Sylla is interviewed about the history of the lottery

1 Faculty News January 13, 2016 ![Bloomberg logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/bloomberg192x144.jpg?itok=yV529lwz)>

Excerpt from [Bloomberg](http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-01-13/kkr-s-roberts-skybridge-s-scaramucci-betting-small-on-powerball) -- "Lotteries have long been a form of public financing and the museum has tickets from the Revolutionary and early Federal era in its collections, said [Richard Sylla](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/richard-sylla), the \[Museum of American Finance's\] chairman. He said his dorm at Harvard was built in the early 1800s partly with lottery money."

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