HIT: Historical value of a dollar

[michele missner <missnerm@athenet.net>]

I received several excellent responses to my request for historical
price comparisons.  Several people asked me to compile a "Hit" and here
it is:

There is a site called " What's a Dollar Worth?"  The address is:
    http://woodrow.mpls.frb.fed.us/economy/calc/cpihome.html
It covers the years 1913 to 1998.

I recently purchased a book recommended here
  Value of a Dollar

Prices from 1860 to 1999. Information from Amazon.com:
Value of a Dollar
                      by Scott Derks
                      Our Price: $90.00

                      Availability: Usually ships within 24 hours.

                      Hardcover 2nd edition (February 1999)
                      Grey House Pub; ISBN: 1891482491

You might want to try this website
http://fisher.lib.virginia.edu/census/

This one is mostly population
You might want to try this website
http://fisher.lib.virginia.edu/census/

This might be an interesting place to start:
http://www.orst.edu/Dept/pol_sci/fac/sahr/sahr.htm

There is a conversion chart that says that a dollar today was worth $13
in 1869.  I do think that I need to find _Historical statistics of the
U.S. to 1970.  If what you need was after 1913 we would have it made.
There is a good conversion chart.






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