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3/22/02
shown by a very good-natured negro thro' the show rooms of the Treasury - where they finish up and count the bills & store the coin and the bills (another place) Also the "macerator" (which was being repaired) &c.&c. They had an interesting frame of redeemed bills - a $5.00 one torn into thousand's of bits by a crazy woman - & restored - a number of burned ones (quite un- recognizable to my eye) and a five hundred dollar bill made out of sixteen pieces of different bills by a bank clerk in N.Y - and not re- deemed. We had just time before 2:30 p.m. to walk down to the bureau of printing and engraving and go thro' that with a young (?) woman who showed us the rooms where they print everything from a postage stamp up and where they count (women do it - like lightning) and number (by machine) &c.&c. She says women have to serve a year apprenticeship before they can be put on currency, and men four years. She also explained how they kept track of everything. How they were

3/22/02
shown by a very good-natured negro thro' the show rooms of the Treasury - where they finish up and count the bills & store the coin and the bills (another place) Also the "macerator" (which was being repaired) &c.&c. They had an interesting frame of redeemed bills - a $5.00 one torn into thousand's of bits by a crazy woman - & restored - a number of burned ones (quite un- recognizable to my eye) and a five hundred dollar bill made out of sixteen pieces of different bills by a bank clerk in N.Y - and not re- deemed. We had just time before 2:30 p.m. to walk down to the bureau of printing and engraving and go thro' that with a young (?) woman who showed us the rooms where they print everything from a postage stamp up and where they count (women do it - like lightning) and number (by machine) &c.&c. She says women have to serve a year apprenticeship before they can be put on currency, and men four years. She also explained how they kept track of everything. How they were

3/22/02
shown by a very good-natured negro thro' the show rooms of the Treasury - where they finish up and count the bills & store the coin and the bills (another place) Also the "macerator" (which was being repaired) &c.&c. They had an interesting frame of redeemed bills - a $5.00 one torn into thousand's of bits by a crazy woman - & restored - a number of burned ones (quite un- recognizable to my eye) and a five hundred dollar bill made out of sixteen pieces of different bills by a bank clerk in N.Y - and not re- deemed. We had just time before 2:30 p.m. to walk down to the bureau of printing and engraving and go thro' that with a young (?) woman who showed us the rooms where they print everything from a postage stamp up and where they count (women do it - like lightning) and number (by machine) &c.&c. She says women have to serve a year apprenticeship before they can be put on currency, and men four years. She also explained how they kept track of everything. How they were
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