Photo of the Day
No. 405
This old man, photographed in the early 1920s, is hauling a wheelbarrow full of mutilated currency to the ‘death chamber’ at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing in Washington, where it will be destroyed.
The photo caption says he has been doing this work for fifty years.
If this is correct, then he would have joined the Bureau in the 1870s, when it was s…