Inflation. The money crisis in the Southern states during the American Civil War. Auction of a 25 gold piece at Danville, Virginia. From a sketch by a Union prisoner which appeared in Frank Leslie's Weekly of February 13, 1864

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches).
Caption card lists some of the printing history of image.
Image source: Culver Service.
Title and other information from caption card.
Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944.
More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsaowi
DDE: engraving.
Film copy on SIS roll 41, frame 710.