1953 Press Photo Fed. Reserve Bank worker operates a currency incinerator, Ohio

This is an original press photo. Take a good look -- that's some $500,000 going up in flames at the Federal Reserve Bank in Cleveland, Ohio. It may make your hands itch, but it doesn't bother Joseph Ostendorf. He burns the stuff daily. The bills are discarded because they are dirty or mutilated. The currency is burned in a special 7 1/2-ton incinerator, perfected last July. US Currency.Photo measures 9 x 7.25inches. Photo is dated 12-10-1953.

Part Number: nec40840

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