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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;moreotherstuff, post: 4596207, member: 56&quot;]I was amazed when I first saw this image.&nbsp; I don&#039;t know when the picture was taken, probably very early in the 1900s.&nbsp; It shows the large press room at the Washington Bureau of Engraving and Printing.&nbsp; According to the postcard&#039;s caption, all U.S. currency was produced on small hand-operated presses by the 700 people working in this room.&nbsp; I think that&#039;s true for stamps as well, and for whatever other engraved documents the government provided.&nbsp; I don&#039;t know when the practice ended.</p><p><br /></p><p>There&#039;s a whole series of these postcards:&nbsp; adding the serial numbers to paper currency, counting bills into standard packages, perforating stamp sheets, etc.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]408477[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]408478[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]408479[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Seeing how this stuff was done, it&#039;s surprising that known variants aren&#039;t unending.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.streetsofwashington.com/2010/04/sweatshop-bureau-of-engraving-and.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.streetsofwashington.com/2010/04/sweatshop-bureau-of-engraving-and.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.streetsofwashington.com/2010/04/sweatshop-bureau-of-engraving-and.html</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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