Source: National Bureau of Economic Research  

Release: NBER Macrohistory Database  

Units:  Thousands of Running Bales, Not Seasonally Adjusted

Frequency:  Monthly

Series Is Presented Here As Seven Variables--(1)--Original Data, 1869-1881 (2)--Original Data, 1880-1890 (3)--Original Data, 1889-1903 (4)--Original Data, 1902-1916 (5)--Original Data, 1915-1928 (6)--Original Data, 1927-1941 (7)--Original Data, 1946-1957. Data Refer To The Friday Nearest The End Of The Month. Data Were Computed By Summing Stocks At U.S. Ports And Stocks At Twenty-Six Interior Towns. Source: The Commercial And Financial Chronicle

This NBER data series m05003b appears on the NBER website in Chapter 5 at http://www.nber.org/databases/macrohistory/contents/chapter05.html.

NBER Indicator: m05003b