1. What are those things hanging down? Are they new? Do they give clues to the picture?

2. What is the platform? Have you ever seen one like it? Could you date the picture by that object?

3. What is this woman doing? What could you infer about her economic status? How old is she?

4. What is in her hands? What is she doing with it?

5. What can you deduce? When was the picture taken? Is money worth more than fuel? What is the economic condition of a country when the money is worthless? Can you name a period in American history when this took place?

6. How Did We Get From This This…

7. To This?

8. unknown (1923). Adolf Hitler, 1889-1945. Library of Congress: Prints & Photographs.Adolf Hitler, 1889-1945. Unknown. (1920-1935). Inflation. In Germany after the last war, it was possible to pay 50 million dollars for a nickel cup of coffee, and $35 million for a $35 suit of clothes. This Berlin woman, realizing that fuel costs money, is starting the morning fire with marks "not worth the paper they are printed on". Library of Congress: Prints & Photographs.Inflation. In Germany after the last war, it was possible to pay 50 million dollars for a nickel cup of coffee, and $35 million for a $35 suit of clothes. This Berlin woman, realizing that fuel costs money, is starting the morning fire with marks "not worth the paper they are printed on".