Bureau of Engraving & Printing. Twelve-ton steel door to vault containing distinctive pa – Vintage Photo Print
![Bureau of Engraving & Printing. Twelve-ton steel door to vault containing distinctive pa, [1914] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/66/664e1651736f-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Bureau of Engraving & Printing. Twelve-ton steel door to vault containing distinctive pa comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Bureau of Engraving & Printing. Twelve-ton steel door to vault containing distinctive pa
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Few doors in Washington carried more weight than the twelve-ton steel door pictured here, which sealed the vault holding the distinctive paper used to print federal currency. Unprinted currency paper was a tightly controlled material, since it was valuable enough to need guarding long before any notes were printed on it. The picture comes from the National Photo Company, a Washington firm that photographed government buildings and city landmarks in the early twentieth century, and its date of about 1914 is inferred from a related negative rather than recorded on this one.
| Created / published | [1914] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 8 x 6 in. |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Title from unverified data provided by the National Photo Company on the negative or negative sleeve. Date from related neg. Copy neg. Gift; Herbert A. French; 1947. This glass negative might show streaks and other blemishes resulting from a natural deterioration in the original coatings. Temp. note: Batch seven. |
| Source | Library of Congress, National Photo Company Collection |
| Original scan | 5,595 × 7,056 px · prints to 19 × 24 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-NPC-260820 |
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