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Message:: [QUOTE="krispy, post: 969074, member: 19065"]Well, I've turned up an interesting article from the New York Times dated May 12, 1913 which seems to indicate production and labor cost saving reasons for the idea of washing circulated notes at the BEP: <a href="http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9505E4D6173FE633A25751C1A9639C946296D6CF" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9505E4D6173FE633A25751C1A9639C946296D6CF" rel="nofollow">MORE CURRENCY WASHING. Four Treasury Machines Will Launder 100,000 Bills Daily.</a>(click 'view full article' button at the link) The article is available as a free <a href="http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9505E4D6173FE633A25751C1A9639C946296D6CF" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9505E4D6173FE633A25751C1A9639C946296D6CF" rel="nofollow">PDF download</a>. <--- This is the article that will automatically prompt you that it is downloading. Cited from the article: And here the same image that eHow.com used, this time from the <a href="http://www.ustreas.gov/offices/management/budget/strategic-plan/2007-2012/07_12.html#clean" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.ustreas.gov/offices/management/budget/strategic-plan/2007-2012/07_12.html#clean" rel="nofollow">Dept. of the Treasury web site</a>, in a wider, less cropped instance, showing the woman standing on the right side of the frame: <img src="http://www.ustreas.gov/offices/management/budget/strategic-plan/2007-2012/Clean-money.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> The caption reads, Notice in the photo above that there appears to be four machines as indicated by the four vent pipes at the top of each workstation. The 1913 Times article above mentions four machines were in place at the Sub-Treasury in New York in that year and that Boston and Philadelphia each had one currency washing machine. I wonder then if we can speculate correctly that the image of the washing machine is indeed the set up at the New York Sub-Treasury facility? That would be the Sub-Treasury Building at Nassau & Wall streets in New York City as seen in this image, also dated c.1915: [Credit: Irving Underhill -- from <a href="http://www.mcmahanphoto.com/lc457.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.mcmahanphoto.com/lc457.html" rel="nofollow">Robert McMahan Photography</a>] <img src="http://ep.yimg.com/ca/I/mcmahanphoto_2115_213408939" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> See more images of the <a href="http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/dgkeysearchresult.cfm?word=U.S.%20Sub-Treasury%20%28New%20York%2C%20N.Y.%29&s=3&notword=&f=2" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/dgkeysearchresult.cfm?word=U.S.%20Sub-Treasury%20%28New%20York%2C%20N.Y.%29&s=3&notword=&f=2" rel="nofollow">Sub-Treasury building from New York Public Library Digital Gallery</a><a href="http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/dgkeysearchresult.cfm?word=U.S.%20Sub-Treasury%20%28New%20York%2C%20N.Y.%29&s=3&notword=&f=2" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/dgkeysearchresult.cfm?word=U.S.%20Sub-Treasury%20%28New%20York%2C%20N.Y.%29&s=3&notword=&f=2" rel="nofollow"></a><a href="http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/dgkeysearchresult.cfm?word=U.S.%20Sub-Treasury%20%28New%20York%2C%20N.Y.%29&s=3&notword=&f=2" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/dgkeysearchresult.cfm?word=U.S.%20Sub-Treasury%20%28New%20York%2C%20N.Y.%29&s=3&notword=&f=2" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://www.mcmahanphoto.com/lc457.html" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a> Also note that the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_reserve" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_reserve" rel="nofollow">Federal Reserve</a> was created in 1913 with the enactment of the Federal Reserve Act.[/QUOTE]

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