Treasury Dept. Ofc. Comptroller of Currency, Macerator for destroying old and mutilated national bank notes after redemption. 1,500,000 destroyed daily. Since the organization of the National Banking System in 1862 over six billion dollars of National Bank notes have been destroyed by this machine
8 x 6 in.
- Date
- 1914
- Collection
- National Photo Company
- Archive
- Library of Congress (via Wikimedia Commons)
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- photograph
- Original size
- 6,934 × 5,284 pixels
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"Treasury Dept. Ofc. Comptroller of Currency, Macerator for destroying old and mutilated national bank notes after redemption. 1,500,000 destroyed daily. Since the organization of the National Banking System in 1862 over six billion dollars of National Bank notes have been destroyed by this machine" (1914). National Photo Company. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Treasury_Dept._Ofc._Comptroller_of_Currency,_Macerator_for_destroying_old_and_mutilated_national_bank_notes_after_redemption._1,500,000_destroyed_daily._Since_the_organization_of_the_LCCN2016852706.jpgNeed photos for a whole script? Add Find Any Photo to Claude and ask for this one by its id: 364933.
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