US Expert,burnt,mutilated currency,Miss Bertha M Sherfy,Washington DC,1937

Title: U.S. Expert on burnt and mutilated currency. Washington, D.C., Oct. 8. For years it has been the duty of Miss Bertha M. Sherfy to pass on the genuineness of the burnt and mutilated currency which is sent to the U.S. Treasury for Redemption. Miss Sherfy says she finds the most difficult currency to identify is that which has been buried underground, expose to water, dampness, etc. Charred money is too easy to identify but currency burned to a gray ash can never be distinguished. An average of three million dollars of this type of money is forwarded to the Treasury for redemption every [...]
Creator(s): Harris & Ewing, photographer
Date Created/Published: [ca. 1937]
Notes:
Title from unverified caption data received with the Harris & Ewing Collection.
Date based on date of negatives in same range.
Gift; Harris & Ewing, Inc. 1955.
General information about the Harris & Ewing Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.hec
Temp. note: Batch five.
Subjects:
United States--District of Columbia--Washington (D.C.)
Bookmark /hec2009010160/
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