Photographs | Engraving & Printing

32-subject $5 currency sheets are cut into 16-subject sheets in COPE-Pak.

The Currency Overprinting and Processing Equipment's palletizer stacks 160 bricks onto a skid.

Hand-engraving tools used in the process of intaglio printing.

Smartskip numbering blocks allow for consecutive numbering without product collation.

A $100 note is immersed in a bottle of unleaded gasoline for a soak test in the Quality Assurance Lab.

Mutilated currency that is badly burned by fire.

The Simultan Press.

A $20 engraved plate on the I-10 press.

A young visitor submitted this drawing of a $10 bill featuring Amelia Earhart at the New 10 Open House at the BEP on July 15.

BEP employees demonstrate the EyeNote app at the 2014 Banknote Conference.

A unit of 100 $1 notes is banded before it is packaged.

A $1 note 50-subject plate is prepared for cleaning.

A $1 note 50-subject plate lies in the bed of a polishing device.

A siderographer examines a $100 plate.

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Photographic Print, Currency Printing Press, c.1932

Photographic Print, Flatbed Stamp Printing Press

Photographic Print, Bureau of Engraving and Printing, Main Building

Photographic Print, Kitchen in Bureau of Engraving and Printing Main Building Cafeteria, c.1934

Photographic Print, Bureau of Engraving and Printing Armored Truck, c.1933

Photographic Print, Surface Printing Division, Flatbed Section, c.1932

Photographic Print, Bureau of Engraving and Printing Armored Truck, c.1934

Photographic Print, Surface Printing Division, Revenue Section, c.1932

Photographic Print, Surface Printing Division, Flatbed Section, c.1932

Photographic Print, Flatbed Stamp Printing Press, c.1932

Photographic Print, Electric Power Sub-Station, general view showing D. C. switchboard for Loans & Currency Building and Washington Monument, c.1932

Photographic Print, Electric Power Sub-Station, view showing wiring back of control switchboards, c.1932

Photographic Print, Electric Power Sub-Station, 230 volt, 3 phase, feeder control switchboards for power, industrial heating and drying apparatus (transformers in cells are back of these switchboards), c.1932

Photographic Print, Electrolytic Plate Grinding Machine, c.1932

Photographic Print, Machine Shop, c.1933

Photographic Print, Transfer Press Room, c.1932

Photographic Print, Stitching Postage Stamp Booklet Covers - Postage Stamp Division, c.1932

Photographic Print, Rotary Stamp Perforation Section, c.1932

Photographic Print, Ink Making Equipment in BEP 1880 Outbuilding, c.1932

Photographic Print, Electric Power Sub-Station, D.C. switchboard for rotary convertors and light and power feeders, c.1932

Photographic Print, Electric Power Sub-Station, metal clad 13200 volt bus with truck type oil switches for control of P.E.P. Co. feeder and transformers for rotary convertors and power distribution transformers; similar bus structure on south side of stat

Photographic Print, Electric Power Sub-Station, general view from control switchboard showing rotary convertors and D. C. switchboards, c.1932

Photographic Print, Power Sub-Station, general view of station from control switchboard showing 528 K.W. manual and three 1200 K.W. automatic rotary convertors, c.1932

Photographic Print, Bureau of Engraving and Printing New Electric Sub-Station, c.1937

Photographic Print, Numbering Division, c.1930s

cPhotographic Print, Machine Shop, c.1933

Photographic Print, Machine Shop, c.1933

Photographic Print, Blacksmith Shop, c. 1933

Photographic Print, Machine Shop, c. 1930.

Photographic Print, Electric Shop, c. 1932.

Photographic Print, Carpenter Shop, c. 1932.

Photographic Print, Plumbing Shop, c. 1932.

Photographic Print, Composition Roller Room, Lower Surface Division, c. 1932.

Photographic Print, Examiners, Internal Revenue, Lower Surface Division, c. 1932.

Photographic Print, Surface Printing Division, Revenue Section, c. 1932.

Photographic Print, Currency Vault, Examining Division, c. 1931.

Photographic Print, Drying Room, c. 1931.

Photographic Print, Surface Printing Division, Bindery, c. 1932.

Photographic Print, Spot Welding Machines, c. 1931.

Photographic Print, Currency Printing Room, c. 1932.

Photographic Print, Currency Printing Press, c. 1932.

Photographic Print, Testing Laboratory, c. 1932.

Photographic Print, BEP Annex Building, Drawing, c.1936

Photographic Print, Currency Sizing Room, c. 1931.

Photographic Print, Currency Sizing Machine, c. 1931.

The Stickney Press produced coils of postage stamps by pasting multiple sheets of printed stamps together, c. 1912-1914.

Secretary of the Treasury Steven T. Mnuchin gives BEP his signature, which will appear on next series currency notes.

Treasurer of the United States Rosie Rios holds a brick containing $400,000 in $100 notes.

A sample is analyzed by titration method in the Analytical Laboratory.

Notes undergoing chemical rub testing in the Quality Assurance Division laboratory.

A sheet of $100 notes is inspected for overall quality.

The Durability Laboratory performs a crumple test on a $5 note to assess ink flaking.

A BEP scientist examines cotton fibers, a component of U.S. currency paper.

A plate printer applies ink to an engraved plate before it is pulled from the Spider Press.

Secretary of the Treasury Jacob Lew and Treasurer of the United States Rosie Rios holding bricks of $100 notes.

An intaglio plate maker inspects a graphite image of a Treasury Seal on the Electrical Discharge Machine.

A cash-pack rolls out from the Large Examining Printing Equipment’s seal bar prior to entry into the shrink tunnel.

A plate maker prepares a $5 face plate for chrome plating.

Treasury Secretary Jack Lew and Treasurer of the United States Rosie Rios visit the BEP to chat with a group of visitors about #TheNew10.

A Mutilated Currency Redemption Specialist examines damaged currency to determine its value.

The Large Examining and Printing Equipment produces 50-subject $1 notes.

Photographic Print, Electric Power Sub-Station, general view from east end of station, c.1932

Photographic Print, Electric Power Sub-Station, D.C. switchboard for rotary convertors and light and power feeders, c.1932

Photographic Print, Electric Power Sub-Station, general view from control switchboard showing rotary convertors and D. C. switchboards, c.1932

Photographic Print, Currency Sizing Room, c. 1931.

Photographic Print, Currency Trimming Machine, c. 1931.

Photographic Print, Surface Printing Division, Flatbead Section, c. 1932.

Photographic Print, Surface Printing Division, Currency Section, c. 1931.

Photographic Print, Engraving Steel Plate, c.1932

Photographic Print, Plate Finishing Room, c.1932

Photographic Print, Plate Finishing, c.1932

Photographic Print, Geometric Lathe, Engraving Division, c.1932

Photographic Print, Currency Platering Press, c. 1931.

Photographic Print, Plate Hardening Room, c.1932

Photographic Print, Offset Press, Lower Surface Division, c. 1932.

Photographic Print, Cutting Machines, Lower Surface Division, c. 1932.

Photographic Print, Offset Press, Lower Surface Division, c. 1932.

Photographic Print, Offset Presses, Lower Surface Division, c. 1932.

Photographic Print, Currency Wetting Room, c. 1931.

Photographic Print, Rotary Stamp Printing Press & Dryer, Rotary Section, Stickney Press, c. 1932.

Photographic Print, Rotary Printing Press, Rotary Section, Stickney Press, c. 1932.

Photographic Print, Plate Provers, c. 1907

Photographic Print, Currency Examining Room, c. 1931.

Photographic Print, Photo Litho Dry Plate Making Room, c.1932

Photographic Print, Photo Litho Electric Etching Section, c.1932

Photographic Print, Photo Litho Mask and Negative Cutting Room, c.1932

Photographic Print, Photo Litho Plate Graining Dept., c.1932

Photographic Print, Photo Engraving, Printing & Etching Room, c.1932

Photographic Print, Photo Litho Stenciling and Negative Cutting Room, c.1932

Photographic Print, Photo Litho Plate Finishing and Proving, c.1932

Photographic Print, Photo Litho Plate Making and Blue Printing, c.1932

Photographic Print, Photo Litho Plate Making Room, c. 1932.

Photographic Print, Composing Zinc Plate Machine, Photo Litho Section, c. 1932.

Photographic Print, Ink Mixing Room, c. 1932.

Photographic Print, Ink Grinding Room, c. 1932.

Photographic Print, Photo Litho Camera Room, c. 1932.

Photographic Print, Rotary Stamp Perforator, 400 Subjects, c. 1932.

Photographic Print, Electrolytic Chroming, Plate Maker Chroming a 12-Subject Currency Plate, c.1932

Photographic Print, Currency Sizing Machine, c. 1931.

Photographic Print, Curreny Packing Room, c. 1932.

Photographic Print, Stamp Coil Room, Stamp Division, c. 1932.

Photographic Print, Stitching Machine, Stamp Division, c. 1932.

Photographic Print, Stamp Packing Section, c. 1932.

Photographic Print, Stamp Storage Vault, Packing Section, c. 1932.

Photographic Print, Bureau Restaurant, Main Building, c. 1932.

Photographic Print, Medical Office, Hygenic Division c. 1930.

Photographic Print, Operating Room, Hygenic Division c. 1930.

Photographic Print, Ladies Ward, Hygenic Division c. 1930.

Photographic Print, Men's Ward, Hygenic Division c. 1930.

Photographic Print, Electrolytic Room, c.1932

Photographic Print, Ink Testing Laboratory, c. 1932.

Photographic Print, Ink Grinding Machine, c. 1932.

Photographic Print, Currency Numbering and Sealing Press, c. 1931.

Photographic Print, Picture Engraving Room, c.1932

Photographic Print, Engraving Steel Plates, c.1932

Binder, Treasury Department, Bureau of Engraving and Printing, 1934