Dollar Dollar Bills Yall

10 01 2012

We bet you didn’t realize that you almost always have little architectural drawings of some of our cities most famous buildings right in your pocket! This incredible shot by Brendon McKeon uses a wide angle lens with a small aperture to take photos of the buildings which inspired the likeness on our currency. 

Pictured fittingly is the treasury building on the $10, you can find the shots of the other buildings and bills on Brendon’s flickr site, but not the $1 bill because the pyramid with the eye obviously isn’t real! [Flickr Photo: Musely]

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2 responses to “Dollar Dollar Bills Yall”

12 01 2012
Ghosts of DC (23:09:15) :

Cool! I love this. Very creative photo by Brendon. Thanks for sharing.

22 01 2012
ZZinDC (19:53:56) :

Nice shot.
The old (pre-2000) image on the back of the $10.00 bill showed an angled view of the south front of the Treasury Building and its long facade up 15th Street. It also showed a few of the private buildings on 15th north of the Treasury, including the bank building still standing at the NW corner of 15th & Pennsylvania Ave & New York Ave. – leading the bank to use the slogan “Right on the Money” for a time, in the 1980s or so. It was originally a local bank called American Security and Trust which became Bank of America in the 1990s.