Please take a look at the page I've posted to allow the comparison of currency from 1800 to present in the U.S. http://www.mykindred.com/cloud/TX/Documents/dollar/ Let me know if ... - you have any suggestions - it looks bad on your computer screen BTW, this was prompted, among other things, by the probate of my 4th-g-grandfather Jeremiah Cloud's will. I wanted to know about what the things then might cost today (of course, this is impossible, for something hand-made then is mass-produced today, and they didn't have antibiotics, etc. Take a look also at the accompanying graph -- notice how the cost of living began its (?exponential?) climb right after WW-II. thanks, Tom Cloud