New York Clearing House Association records, 1853-2006

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Series I: Associations and Committees, 1853-2004

This series contains minute books for the Clearing House Association, Clearing House Committee, and other committees, including the Bank Officers, Committee on Admissions, Loan Committees, Nomination Committee, and Tax Committee. There is some additional material on committees in Series IX: General Historical Records.

The series also includes 20th century meeting files for the Clearing House Association, Clearing House Committee, and the Steering Committee.

There are two volumes, New York Clearing House Association Officers and Members of Committees Since Organization, in Series IX: General Historical Records. One volume (Box 123) is arranged by name (1853-2000) and the second volume (Box 150) is arranged chronologically (1854-1970). These volumes document the membership of organization's committees in two comprehensive volumes.

There are also two volumes of duplicate minutes (1853-1875) in Boxes 172 and 173, which include the minutes of the New York Clearing House Association, Bank Officers, and various other committees in chronological order.


Subseries I.1: Clearing House Association, 1862-1995

This subseries contains the Clearing House Association's minutes and minute books (1862-1958) and meeting files (1922-1995). Early records (1892-1915) include proceedings from annual meetings.

Minute books in multi-volume sets include the volume number in the container list.



Box 118 Folder 5 Clearing House Association Meeting Minutes, 1862-1863


Box 118 Folder 6 Clearing House Association Meeting Minutes, 1884 June 4



Box 119 Folder 1-2 Clearing House Association Meeting Minutes, 1891-1892 October, 2 folders


Box 119 Folder 3-9 Clearing House Association Meeting Minutes, 1892 December-1901, 7 folders



Box 120 Folder 1-9 Clearing House Association Meeting Minutes, 1902-1915, 9 folders



Box 133 Clearing House Association Meeting Minutes #2, 1865 October 3-1873 November 25, 1 Volumes

The volume is not indexed, but does include a list of meeting dates and topics at the front of the volume.


Box 133 Clearing House Association Meeting Minutes #3, 1874 January 7-1884 July 8, 1 Volumes

The volume is not indexed, but does include a list of meeting dates and topics at the front of the volume.



Box 157 Clearing House Association Meeting Minutes #4, 1884 July 29-1890 June 19, 1 Volumes

No index.



Box 158 Clearing House Association Meeting Minutes #5, 1890 October 7-1898 October 4, 1 Volumes

No index.



Box 159 Clearing House Association Meeting Minutes #6, 1899 March 9-1911 July 10, 1 Volumes

No index.



Box 130 Folder 1-3 Clearing House Association Meeting Minutes #7, 1911 October 3-1925 October 16, 3 folders

Originally housed in a binder as a minute book. Includes index.


Box 130 Folder 4-6 Clearing House Association Meeting Minutes #8, 1926 February 11-1941 September 29, 3 folders

Originally housed in a binder as a minute book. Includes index.


Box 130 Folder 7-9 Clearing House Association Meeting Minutes #9, 1941 October 7-1958 April 2, 3 folders

Originally housed in a binder as a minute book. Includes index.



Box 43 Clearing House Association Meeting Files, 1922 October 3-1948 October 5



Box 44 Clearing House Association Meeting Files, 1951-1995


Subseries I.2: Clearing House Committee, 1854-2000

This subseries contains the Clearing House Committees minute books (1854-1979) and meeting files (1905-2000). There are also two volumes with typed copies of the Committee's minutes for 1854-1911 (Box 134); these may contain minutes that are missing from the original volumes.

Minute books in multi-volume sets include the volume number in the container list.

This subseries also includes files on the Ad Hoc Committee-Deposit Insurance (1988-1990) and the Subcommittee of Associate Bank Officers (1907-1908). Some of the committees in Subseries I.4 Other Committees were possibly also subcommittees of the Clearing House Committee.



Box 134 Clearing House Committee Meeting Minutes (Typed Copy) #1, 1854 March 11-1894 December 10, 1 Volumes

Typed copies may contain content missing from the original volumes.


Box 134 Clearing House Committee Meeting Minutes (Typed Copy) #2, 1895 January 19-1911 September 21, 1 Volumes

Typed copies may contain content missing from the original volumes.



Box 160 Clearing House Committee Meeting Minutes #1, 1854-1857, 1 Volumes



Box 161 Clearing House Committee Meeting Minutes #2, 1859-1878, 1 Volumes



Box 167 Clearing House Committee Meeting Minutes, 1878-1885

See: Loan Committee and Special Committees 1878-1885.



Box 168 Clearing House Committee Meeting Minutes #4, 1885 June 9-1895 January 25, 1 Volumes



Box 169 Clearing House Committee Meeting Minutes #5, 1895 February 25-1907 October 30, 1 Volumes



Box 170 Clearing House Committee Meeting Minutes #6, 1907 November 1-1911 September 29, 1 Volumes



Box 130 Folder 10-12 Clearing House Committee Meeting Minutes #7, 1911 October 5-1917 August 22, 3 folders

Originally housed in a binder as a minute book. Includes index.



Box 131 Folder 1-3 Clearing House Committee Meeting Minutes #8, 1917 September 6-1923 September 26, 3 folders

Originally housed in a binder as a minute book. Includes index.


Box 131 Folder 4-6 Clearing House Committee Meeting Minutes #9, 1923 October 22-1932 May 23, 3 folders

Originally housed in a binder as a minute book. Includes index.


Box 131 Folder 7-9 Clearing House Committee Meeting Minutes #10, 1932 June 6-1942 January 22, 3 folders

Originally housed in a binder as a minute book. Includes index.


Box 131 Folder 10-12 Clearing House Committee Meeting Minutes #11, 1942 February 26-1950 December 14, 3 folders

Originally housed in a binder as a minute book. Includes index.



Box 132 Folder 1-3 Clearing House Committee Meeting Minutes #12, 1951 January 22-1959 September 25, 3 folders

Originally housed in a binder as a minute book. Includes index.


Box 132 Folder 4-6 Clearing House Committee Meeting Minutes #13, 1959 October 29-1972 March 15, 3 folders

Originally housed in a binder as a minute book. Includes index.


Box 132 Folder 7-9 Clearing House Committee Meeting Minutes #14, 1972 April 26-1979 November 28, 3 folders

Originally housed in a binder as a minute book. Includes index.



Box 45 Clearing House Committee Meeting Files, 1905 October -1922 September



Box 46 Clearing House Committee Meeting Files, 1926 October 26-1929 September 27; 1942 May 28



Box 47 Clearing House Committee Meeting Files, 1929 December 23-1936 October



Box 48 Clearing House Committee Meeting Files, 1936 November 30-1945 April 26



Box 49 Clearing House Committee Meeting Files, 1945 May 29-1954 December 13



Box 50 Clearing House Committee Meeting Files, 1955 January 10-1959 July 20



Box 51 Clearing House Committee Meeting Files, 1959 September 25-1962



Box 52 Clearing House Committee Meeting Files, 1963 January 23-1965 June 23



Box 53 Clearing House Committee Meeting Files, 1965 July 28-1967 June 19



Box 54 Clearing House Committee Meeting Files, 1967 September 27-1970 June 24



Box 55 Clearing House Committee Meeting Files, 1970 July 22-1973 August 16

Includes regular and special meeting files.



Box 56 Clearing House Committee Meeting Files, 1973 October 24-1975 November 13



Box 57 Clearing House Committee Meeting Files, 1975 November 25-1977 March 23



Box 58 Clearing House Committee Meeting Files, 1977 April 27-1995 October 25



Box 59 Clearing House Committee Meeting Files, 1979 March 28-1980 October 22



Box 60 Clearing House Committee Meeting Files, 1981 January 28-1982 September 22



Box 61 Clearing House Committee Meeting Files, 1982 October 27-1984 June 27



Box 62 Clearing House Committee Meeting Files, 1984 July 25-1985 September 25



Box 76 Clearing House Committee Meeting Files, 1985 October 23-November 27



Box 63 Clearing House Committee Meeting Files, 1986 January 22-1987 February 25



Box 64 Clearing House Committee Meeting Files, 1986 October 22-1989 September 27



Box 65 Clearing House Committee Meeting Files, 1989 March 22-August 23



Box 66 Clearing House Committee Meeting Files, 1989 October 25-November 22



Box 67 Clearing House Committee Meeting Files, 1990 January 24-1991 January 23



Box 68 Clearing House Committee Meeting Files, 1991 February 27-1992 March 23



Box 69 Clearing House Committee Meeting Files, 1992 April 22-1993 January 26



Box 70 Clearing House Committee Meeting Files, 1993 February 11-1994 July 27



Box 71 Clearing House Committee Meeting Files, 1994 April 27-1995 October 25



Box 72 Clearing House Committee Meeting Files, 1995 September 27-1996 October 30



Box 73 Clearing House Committee Meeting Files, 1997 January 22-November 26



Box 74 Clearing House Committee Meeting Files, 1998 February 25-November 23



Box 75 Clearing House Committee Meeting Files, 1999 February 4-2000 September 27



Box 65 Clearing House Committee Meeting Files--Ad Hoc Committee Deposit Insurance, 1988-1990



Box 66 Clearing House Committee Meeting Files--Ad Hoc Committee Deposit Insurance, 1988-1990



Box 132 Folder 10 Subcommittee of Associate Bank Officers, Appointed October 26, 1907, in Reference to the Issuance of Loan Certificates--Minutes, 1907 October 26-1908 April 6

Originally housed in a binder as a minute book.


Subseries I.3 Steering Committee, 1932-2004

This subseries contains the meeting files of the Steering Committee.



Box 77 Steering Committee Meeting Files, 1932 April 7-1943 June 6



Box 78 Steering Committee Meeting Files, 1943 August 26-1958 February 10



Box 79 Steering Committee Meeting Files, 1958 March 10-1962 March 15



Box 80 Steering Committee Meeting Files, 1962 April 19-1965 October 14



Box 81 Steering Committee Meeting Files, 1965 November 18-1968 August 8



Box 82 Steering Committee Meeting Files, 1968 September 12-1971 July 8



Box 83 Steering Committee Meeting Files, 1971 August 4-1973 December 13



Box 84 Steering Committee Meeting Files, 1974-1976



Box 85 Steering Committee Meeting Files, 1976 January 8-1978 March 9



Box 86 Steering Committee Meeting Files, 1978 April 13-1980 December 11



Box 87 Steering Committee Meeting Files, 1981 January 8-1982 December 9



Box 88 Steering Committee Meeting Files, 1982 December 9-1984 February 9



Box 89 Steering Committee Meeting Files, 1984 April 12-1985 July 11



Box 90 Steering Committee Meeting Files, 1985 September 19-1986 July 10

Includes Federal Reserve Bank of New York Luncheons, 1982-1994 (2 folders)



Box 91 Steering Committee Meeting Files, 1986 August 14-1988 January 14



Box 92 Steering Committee Meeting Files, 1988 February 11-1989 December 14



Box 93 Steering Committee Meeting Files, 1988 July 14-October 13, 1990 January 11-September 13



Box 94 Steering Committee Meeting Files, 1988 November 10-1990 December 19



Box 95 Steering Committee Meeting Files, 1991 January 10-1992 February 13



Box 96 Steering Committee Meeting Files, 1992 March 12-1994 November 10



Box 97 Steering Committee Meeting Files, 1992 September 10 and November 11; 1994 December 13-1995 May 11



Box 98 Steering Committee Meeting Files, 1992 December 7-1993 December 18



Box 99 Steering Committee Meeting Files, 1993 December 9-1995 December 14



Box 100 Steering Committee Meeting Files, 1996 February8-1996 December 16



Box 101 Steering Committee Meeting Files, 1997 January 9-December 11



Box 102 Steering Committee Meeting Files, 1998 January 1-1999 March 11



Box 103 Steering Committee Meeting Files, 1999 June 9-2001 June 19



Box 76 Steering Committee Meeting Files, 2002 February-2004 April


Subseries I.4: Other Committees, 1853-1998

This subseries contains records from committees and groups not represented in Subseries I.1-I.3. These include the Bank Officers, Committee on Admissions, Loan Committees, Nomination Committee, and Tax Committee.

The records in this subseries consist primarily of minute books. Individual volumes can contain the minutes of several committees but often include a table of contents for the volume, and also note where a preceding or continuing volume of the minutes for a particular committee can be found: where this information is available and differs from the volume's title, it is noted in the container list.

The records for the Committee on Admissions include minutes and files on individual banks applying for admission to the New York Clearing House Association. There are also bank histories and membership applications in Series IX: General Historical records.



Box 121 Folder 1 Committee on Admissions--Bank of the Metropolis (#83), 1884


Box 121 Folder 2 Committee on Admissions--West Side Bank (#84), 1885


Box 121 Folder 3 Committee on Admissions--Seaboard Bank (#85), 1885


Box 121 Folder 4 Committee on Admissions--Commercial National Bank, 1885


Box 121 Folder 5 Committee on Admissions--Sixth National Bank (#86), 1885


Box 121 Folder 6 Committee on Admissions--Sixth National Bank (#86 Readmission), 1890


Box 121 Folder 7 Committee on Admissions--Western National Bank (#87), 1887


Box 121 Folder 8 Committee on Admissions--First National BankBrooklyn (#88), 1889


Box 121 Folder 9 Committee on Admissions--Fourteenth Street Bank, 1890


Box 121 Folder 9 Committee on Admissions--Mount Morris Bank, 1890


Box 121 Folder 9 Committee on Admissions--Riverside Bank, 1890


Box 121 Folder 9 Committee on Admissions--Sprague National Bank, 1890


Box 121 Folder 10 Committee on Admissions--Southern National Bank (#89), 1892


Box 121 Folder 11 Committee on Admissions--Hide and Leather National Bank (#95), 1892

#89 is crossed out, replaced by #95.



Box 122 Folder 1 Committee on Admissions--Columbia Bank, 1891


Box 122 Folder 2 Committee on Admissions--Columbia Bank (Request Withdrawn), 1894


Box 122 Folder 3-4 Committee on Admissions--Liberty National Bank of New York (#90 or 91), 1894

File box indicated the two files were #90 and 91, but did not indicate which bank was #90 and which was #91.


Box 122 Folder 5 Committee on Admissions--National Union Bank of the City of New York (#90 or 91), 1894

File box indicated the two files were #90 and 91, but did not indicate which bank was #90 and which was #91.



Box 123 Folder 1-3 Committee on Admissions--Seventh National Bank, 1901


Box 123 Folder 4 Committee on Admissions--Jefferson National Bank, 1908



Box 122 Folder 6 Committee on Admissions--National Copper Bank, 1908



Box 123 Folder 5 Committee on Admissions--Union Exchange Bank, 1908


Box 123 Folder 5 Committee on Admissions--Van Norden Trust Company, 1908



Box 124 Folder 1 Committee on Admissions--Coal and Iron National Bank, 1906


Box 124 Folder 2 Committee on Admissions--Coal and Iron National Bank (#99), 1909



Box 123 Folder 6 Committee on Admissions--Union National Exchange Bank (#100), 1910


Box 123 Folder 7 Committee on Admissions--General, 1910-1911

List of reports and banks for #101-117



Box 174 Committee on Admissions--Meeting Minutes, 1865-1912, 1 Volumes



Box 135 Folder 1 Committee on Admissions--Meeting Minutes, 1912 February 23-1944 January 17

Originally housed in one binder as a minute book. No index.


Box 135 Folder 3-5 Committee to Analyze the Banking and Currency Bill, 1914

See Nominating Committee and Other Commitees.



Box 141 Folder 1 Arbitration Committee, Proceedings of the, 1856 July 7-1898 October 20, 1 Volumes



Box 117 Folder 3-5 Bank Officers Meeting Minutes, 1861



Box 118 Folder 1-4 Bank Officers Meeting Minutes, 1862-1864



Box 162 Bank Officers Meeting Minutes, 1864 February-July, 1 Volumes



Box 137 Bank Officers Meeting Minutes, 1864 August 27-1878 January 9; 1881 October 24; 1884 July 29, 1 Volumes

Includes minutes for the Tax Committee and the Counsel of the Banks of the City of New York.


Box 137 Bank Officers Meeting Minutes, 1881-1882

Bound with Tax Committee 1880 minutes. See Table of Contents in that volume.



Box 135 Folder 2 Certificates Committee Meeting Minutes, 1933 March 4-9

Minutes of the meetings of the Certificates Committee, as constituted under the "plan for the issuance and use of Clearing House Association certificates, dated March 4, 1933."


Box 135 Folder 3-5 Committee on Cotton Exchange Transactions, 1914

See Nominating Committee and Other Commitees.



Box 137 Counsel of the Banks of the City of New York, 1876

Bound with the Bank Officers Minutes for 1864-1878. See Table of Contents in that volume.



Box 135 Folder 3-5 Committee on Inland Exchange (1912-1915), 1912-1915

See Nominating Committee and Other Commitees.



Box 165 Loan Committee of 1860--Minutes, 1860 November 22-1862 April 28, 1 Volumes



Box 163 Loan Committee of 1860--Minutes, 1860 November 22-1861 November 30, 1 Volumes

This volume is a duplicate of Loan Committee November 22, 1860-April 28, 1862. Minutes continued in Loan Committee, December 2 1861-January 8, 1874.



Box 164 Loan Committee of 1864--Minutes, 1864 February 29-September 16, 1 Volumes

For minutes of Loan Committee of 1863 see Loan Committee, December 2, 1861-January 8, 1874.



Box 148 Loan Committee--Minutes, 1861 December 2-1874 January 8, 1 Volumes

Minutes for Loan Committee [of 1860] 1861-1862, Loan Committee of 1863, and Loan Committee of 1873. Some parts of this volume are a duplication of the volume marked Loan Committee 1860 November 22-1962 April 28.



Box 167 Loan Committee and Special Committees, 1878 November 19-1885 April 27, 1 Volumes

Includes Clearing House Committee 1878-1885, Conference Committee 1884, Special Committee 1884, Special Committee of Five 1884, Loan Committee of 1884, Loan Committee of 1890, Bank Officers 1884-1885, and Committee on Amendments 1884-1885. Minutes of Loan Committee of 1890 are continued in Loan Committee of 1890, etc. and Special Committees (Box 166). Minutes of Clearing House Committee (June 23, 1885) are in Clearing House Committee Minutes #4 (Box 168).



Box 166 Loan Committee of 1890, 1893, 1895, 1907, and Special Committees, 1890-1912, 1 Volumes

Includes minutes for Loan Committees of 1890, 1893, 1895, and 1907. Includes minutes for the Nominating Committee (1892-1912), Hallock Committee, Committee on Endorsements, Committee on Amendment to the Constitution, Committee on Clearing House Examination, and minutes for Special Meeting in re: collection charges (1899). Minutes are continued in Nominating and Other Committees (October 1912) in Box 135.



Box 135 Folder 3-5 Loan Committee, 1914

See: Nominating Committee and Other Commitees.



Box 149 Loan Committee--Circulars, Forms, &c., 1858-1915, 1 Volumes

Includes meeting notices, clippings, and other records.



Box 132 Folder 11 National Credit Association #8, 1930-1933

Includes minutes for meetings of the National Credit Association, various committees, 1931 October 9-29 (pp. 1-21); minutes and related materials on the subject of the Bank of the United States, 1930 December 11-1933 March 21 (pp. 22-53); and minutes for meetings of the Commodities Finance Corporation, 1932 August 23-September 1 (pp. 55-60). Originally housed in one binder as a minute book.



Box 166 Nominating Committee, 1892-1912

See: Loan Committee of 1890, 1893, 1895, 1907, and Special Committees.



Box 135 Folder 3-5 Nominating Committee and Other Committees, 1912-1998, 3 folders

Originally housed in one binder as a minute book. Includes Table of Contents: this is accurate except that additional Nominating Committee pages were added later. Includes minutes and reports related to the Nominating Committee (1912-1998); Committee on Inland Exchange (1912-1915); Committee to Analyze the Banking and Currency Bill (1914); Committee on Cotton Exchange Transactions (1914); Federal Reserve Bank - Inauguration (1914); Loan Committee (1914); Apportionment of Clearing House Expenses (1915-1916); City Collection Department - Committee on Emergency Credit (1930) and Finances of the City of New York (1933-1934).



Box 137 Tax Committee Meeting Minutes, 1876-1877

Appointed October 28, 1875. Bound with the Bank Officers Minutes for 1864-1878. See Table of Contents in that volume.


Box 137 Tax Committee Meeting Minutes, 1880-1883, 1 Volumes

Contains Tax Committee 1880 Meeting Minutes. Includes Bank Officers Meeting Minutes.



Box 172 Duplicate Minutes #1, 1853-1870, 1 Volumes

Minutes of the New York Clearing House Association, Bank Officers, and various committees in chronological order.



Box 173 Duplicate Minutes #2, 1870-1875, 1 Volumes

Minutes of the New York Clearing House Association, Bank Officers, and various committees in chronological order.