New York Clearing House Association records, 1853-2006

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Series VII: Photographs and Other Images, 1858-1987, undated

This series includes photographs, as well as other images, such as architectural renderings and drawings from Harper's magazines.

The images include officers and other staff, buildings, events, images used for publications, and photographs taken to document art and portraits owned by the Clearing House.



Box 197 Folder 1 Art, undated, Photographs



Box 195 Gertrude Beck, 1984, Color Slides, 3 boxes.



Box 197 Folder 2 Marvin Borgner, John P. Owens, John F. Lee, and Norman Dykes, 1970 August, Photographs


Box 197 Folder 3 Buildings--48 Wall Street in 1858, 1858, 1961

Copy of image with 1961 press release.



Box 198 Folder 7 Buildings--Corner of Nassau and Pine Streets--Exchange Room, circa 1875-1875, Photographs

Board is fragile.


Box 198 Folder 8-9 Buildings--77 Cedar Street--Assembly Room, circa 1896-1910, 2 folders; Photographs

Boards are fragile.


Box 198 Folder 10-11 Buildings--77 Cedar Street--Offices, 1904, undated, 2 folders; Photographs



Box 199 Folder 5 Buildings--77 Cedar Street--Offices--R.W. Ferguson?, circa 1890s, Photographs



Box 198 Folder 12 Buildings--77 Cedar Street--Clearing Hall, 1904, Photographs

Image is damaged.



Box 199 Folder 1 Buildings--77 Cedar Street--Clearing Hall, 1936, undated, Photographs



Box 197 Folder 4-14 Buildings--77 Cedar Street, circa 1937-1962, 11 folders

These include negatives and photographs. Also included are the text for several 1961 press releases related to the Clearing House's announced move to a new building. The file heading "77 Cedar Street" was a bit general, and files include images of the building, activities in the building, and executives.



Box 198 Folder 13 Buildings--77 Cedar Street, circa 1961, Photographs

Oversized photo of executives at 77 Cedar Street. This is similar to smaller photographs in Box 197.



Box 199 Folder 2-3 Buildings--77 Cedar Street, circa 1961, 2 folders; Photographs



Box 196 Buildings--77 Cedar Street, 1962 August, Color Slides, 1 box.

Taken by Henry S. Fullerton, III.



Box 195 Buildings--77 Cedar Street, circa 1963, 4x5" Negatives, 1 box.



Box 200 Buildings--77 Cedar Street, undated

Image on copper plate on wood block.



Box 197 Folder 15 Buildings--100 Broad Street, 1961, undated, Negatives


Box 197 Folder 16 Buildings--100 Broad Street--Negatives of Publicity Pictures Taken in Connection with Move to, 1961 June, Negatives


Box 197 Folder 17 Buildings--100 Broad Street, 1961, undated, Photographs



Box 195 Buildings--100 Broad Street, 1963 Spring, Color Slides, 1 box.

Building and logo.



Box 197 Folder 18 Buildings--100 Broad Street, 1987, Photographs



Box 195 Buildings--100 Broad Street--Front Entrance and Logo, 1984, Color Slides, 1 box.



Box 197 Folder 19 Buildings--100 Broad Street--Don Cawley, undated, Photographs


Box 197 Folder 20 Buildings--Tiffany Window, 1996



Box 199 Folder 4 William A. Camp and William Sherer, circa 1865-1905



Box 195 Angela Carone and Rosana Whitfield, 1984, Color Slides, 4 boxes.



Box 196 Donald Cawley and Deborah Prutzman, 1984, Color Slides, 3 boxes.


Box 196 City Collection--Menna Singh, 1984, Color Slides, 5 boxes.



Box 195 Clearing House Interbank Payments System (CHIPS)--Operations Manager and Tech Services Manager at Console, 1982, Color Slides, 1 box.


Box 195 Clearing House Interbank Payments System (CHIPS)--Programmers at Remote Terminals, Tape Drives, Tapes on Racks, etc., 1982, Color Slides, 5 boxes.



Box 198 Folder 3 Clearing House Member Bank Singers of New York, American Women's Club, 1937 January 27, Photographs



Box 197 Folder 21 Committee #1, circa 1980s, Photographs


Box 197 Folder 22 Committee #2, circa 1980s, Photographs



Box 198 Folder 6 William Jay Gilpin, circa 1917, Photographs

Board is fragile.



Box 197 Folder 23 Gene Gluhusky, John Tino, and Laura Healy, circa 1980, Photographs



Box 198 Folder 5 Illustations from Harpers Weekly, circa 1875-1895, Clippings



Box 197 Folder 24 John F. Lee, 1960s-1980s, Photographs



Box 195 John F. Lee, 1984, Color Slides, 3 boxes.



Box 199 Folder 6 Loan Committee, 1893, Photographs

Item is signed by the committee members.



Box 215 Merchants National Bank, 1881, 1 Volumes

Photographs. Merchants National Bank 1881 is printed on the front cover, but there are photographs from several other banks and the New York Clearing House. Each page has a bank name at the top of the page, and the pages contain various individual but unidentified portrait photographs of what are probably bank officers.



Box 199 Folder 7 William Moore, circa 1890s, Photographs



Box 198 Folder 4 New York Clearing House, circa 1930s, Photographs

Two photographs, unidentified. One is a large group photographs; the other show an event, with everyone seated at tables.



Box 197 Folder 25-28 New York Clearing House Contact Sheets and Negatives, circa 1960s, 4 folders



Box 195 Portraits, undated, Color Slides, 6 boxes.

Individual slides are identified. These document portrait paintings that were hanging, on loan, or in storage.



Box 197 Folder 29 Portraits, undated, Negatives

Photographs of portrait paintings.



Box 135 Folder 6-10 Portraits, undated, 5 folders; Photographs

Photographs of portrait paintings.



Box 195 Presentation of Hepburn Portrait--John F. Lee and Richard H. Emmet, 1989 October 13, Color Slides, 1 box.



Box 135 Folder 11 Presentation of Hepburn Portrait--John F. Lee and Richard H. Emmet, 1989 October 13, Photographs



Box 197 Folder 30-31 Promotional Pictures, 1970s, 2 folders; Photographs



Box 135 Folder 12 Publication Projects--Brochure--35mm Slides Not Used, 1984, Color Slides


Box 135 Folder 13 Publication Projects--Brochure, circa 2002


Box 135 Folder 14 Publication Projects--Images Not Used in Clearing House Brochure, circa 2002, Photocopies


Box 135 Folder 15-18 Publication Projects--Miscellaneous Images, 1870s-1980s, 4 folders

Some items are copies of originals.



Box 196 Lawrence Wolberg and Merhl Hiteshew, 1984, Color Slides, 3 boxes.



Box 197 Folder 32 Walter Wriston, undated, Photographs



Box 135 Folder 19 Miscellaneous Images, Photocopies



Box 195 Unidentified, undated, Color Slides, 1 box.


Box 195 Unidentified, undated, Color Slides, 1 box.

These may be more CHIPS-related slides.



Box 197 Folder 33 Unidentified, circa 1980s, Negatives

These may be more CHIPS-related slides.



Box 199 Folder 8 Unidentified, 1896, Photographs

Taken in the offices of 77 Cedar Street, but person at desk is not identified.