New York Clearing House Association records, 1853-2006

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Series IX: General Historical Records, 1853-2000

This series consists of four boxes (Boxes 125-129, and a few oversized items) labeled as "Miscellaneous Historical Records" by the New York Clearing House Association, as well as materials from unlabeled boxes. These files include bank histories, volumes with comprehensive lists of officers and members of committees of the New York Clearing House Association (circa 1853-2000), histories, membership applications, sample certificates and forms, and subject files on the City Collection Department, Federal Reserve, National Currency Association, New York Clearing House Building Company, Gold Fund Committee, as well as committees, exchanges, taxes, and other topics.

This series also includes material donated in 2019 after the closing of the "History Booth" at the Annual Conference. This material includes various historical documents such as clippings, certificates, reports, and other items.

There is additional information on the history of the New York Clearing House Association in Subseries IV.2: Other Reports, Studies, and Publications.

This series also contains nine clippings scrapbooks (Boxes 226-234). Two are on individual subjects: Branch Banking and Congressional "Money Trust". The others, which form an incomplete chronological set for 1885-1906, 1922-1925, primarily contain clippings about the acitivites of the member banks, etc.



Box 125 Folder 12-14 Automated Clearing House History, 1972-1990, 3 folders

Includes minutes of the Steering Committee and the Payments Systems Committee.



Box 129 Folder 1 Bank for International Settlements--Clippings, 1929 July-1931 February 6

1 scrapbook



Box 115 Folder 1 Bank Histories--American Exchange, circa 1880s


Box 115 Folder 2 Bank Histories--Bank of America, circa 1880s


Box 115 Folder 2 Bank Histories--Bank of North America, circa 1880s


Box 115 Folder 3 Bank Histories--City Bank, circa 1880s


Box 115 Folder 4 Bank Histories--Fourteenth Street Bank, 1907


Box 115 Folder 5 Bank Histories--Fulton Bank, circa 1880s


Box 115 Folder 6 Bank Histories--Gallatin National Bank, circa 1880s


Box 115 Folder 7 Bank Histories--Leather Manufacturers Bank, circa 1880s


Box 115 Folder 8 Bank Histories--Mark Street National Bank, circa 1880s


Box 115 Folder 9 Bank Histories--Merchants Exchange Bank, circa 1880s


Box 115 Folder 10 Bank Histories--National City Bank, circa 1880s


Box 115 Folder 11 Bank Histories--New York National Exchange Bank (#67), circa 1870s


Box 115 Folder 12 Bank Histories--Phenix National Bank, circa 1880s


Box 115 Folder 13 Bank Histories--Seventh Ward Bank, circa 1880s


Box 115 Folder 14 Bank Histories--Trademens Bank, circa 1880s


Box 115 Folder 15 Bank Histories--Union National Bank (#5), circa 1880s



Box 200 Bank Histories--New York City Banks, 1933-1999, 1 Volumes

New York City Banks, copyright 1933 by J. Peterson. This is a record of banks showing amalgamations, mergers, consolidations, purchases, liquidations, and failures. It is in a binder form, meant to be updated, and it contains some updates and annotations from as late as 1999.



Box 125 Folder 20 Bank Officers Meeting--Correspondence, 1866 February 6


Box 125 Folder 24 Bank Officers of the New York Clearing House, 1894 September

Listed by bank.



Box 198 Folder 0 Bank Statements (Condensed) of Selected Member Banks, 1907 October 30-1908 January 31



Box 125 Folder 22 Bank Taxes--Legislation, 1901


Box 125 Folder 23 Banking and Currency Bill, 1914


Box 125 Folder 25 Board of Governors--Regulations D, I, and O, 1936


Box 125 Folder 26 Branch Banking--An Address to Convention of New York State Bankers Association Held at New York Clearing House, 1902



Box 227 [Branch Banking]--Clippings, circa 1920-1930s, 1 Volumes

Scrapbook. Volume has no title; it appears to consist primarily of clippings related to the argument over branch banking, with some information on guarantee of deposits, circa 1920-early 1930s



Box 116 Folder 5-6 Buildings--#14 Pine Street, circa 1887-1898, 2 folders

Papers pertaining to the ownership and sale of #14 Pine Street.



Box 117 Folder 1-2 Buildings--#14 Pine Street, circa 1887-1898, 2 folders

Papers pertaining to the ownership and sale of #14 Pine Street.



Box 201 Folder 6-8 Buildings--77 Cedar Street--Cornerstone, 1894, 1964, 1976, 3 folders

Contains invitation, the copper plate for printing invitations, clippings, programs, and a copy of speech from the laying of the cornerstone for the 77 Cedar Street building. Also included are notes on the 1894 coins that were kept in the cornerstone, although the coins themselves are not in the collection.



Box 138 Folder 1 Buildings--Minutes of the Trustees of the New York Clearing House Association Building, 1874-1897



Box 125 Folder 16-17 Cannon, James G.--Addresses, Essays, Lectures, etc., 1892-1900, 2 folders



Box 198 Folder 1 Certificate of Merit from New York Employing Printers Association, Inc., 1954



Box 125 Folder 31 Certificates of Deposit, Gold, Silver, and Legal Tender (Specimen), 1961, undated

Certificates are copies, not originals.


Box 125 Folder 29 Check Exchanges, 1911-1945


Box 125 Folder 32 Checking Account Service Charges, circa 1920s


Box 125 Folder 38 City Collection Department and Federal Reserve Bank Correspondence, 1951


Box 125 Folder 33 City Collection Department--Return Items: Federal Reserve Bank of New York (Rule 10), 1945 April 26


Box 125 Folder 35 City Collection Department--Short History, 1944 October 25


Box 125 Folder 34 City Collection Department--Stock Transfer and Coupon Exchange, 1944 December


Box 125 Folder 36 City Collection Department--Study, 1960


Box 125 Folder 37 City Collection Department--Weekly and Quarterly Reports, 1944 November 8


Box 125 Folder 15 Clearing House Committee--Annual Report of the Clearing House Committee, 1894 September 28


Box 125 Folder 30 Clearing House Interbank Payments System (CHIPS) Recap Report First Day of Operations, 1970 April 6



Box 127 Folder 14 Clearing House Loan Certificates and Substitutes for Money Used During the Panic of 1907, 1908-1910

Articles on; includes article by James G. Cannon.



Box 125 Folder 19 Clearing House Members, 1853-1963

Taken from J. Auer, Bank Windows.


Box 125 Folder 27 Coe, George--Addresses, Essays, Lectures, etc., 1879-1891



Box 126 Folder 1 Committee on Amendments to the Constitution, 1914


Box 126 Folder 2 Committee on Endorsements, 1896


Box 126 Folder 7 Committee on Uniform Security Identification Procedures (CUSIP) Number History, 1960-1964


Box 126 Folder 3 Committee upon Reforms in the Banking Business--Reports, 1873 November, 1884 July



Box 125 Folder 21 Condition of the National Banks of the City of New York, 1894 July 18



Box 226 Congressional "Money Trust"--Clippings, 1912, 1 Volumes

Scrapbook. This is a mix of clippings and other materials, such as memos, etc. from Clearing House.



Box 126 Folder 4 Constitution of the National Bank Note Redemption Association, 1865


Box 126 Folder 5 Constitution of the New York Clearing House with Amendments, 1892


Box 126 Folder 6 Cotton Exchange Reopening, 1914


Box 126 Folder 8 Depository Certificates for Gold and Coin Currency, 1913-1914


Box 126 Folder 9 Emergency Bank Holidays, 1977-1978


Box 126 Folder 10 Establishment of the Foreign Department of the New York Clearing House, 1913


Box 126 Folder 14 Examination of the Members, 1911



Box 125 Folder 18 Examinations of Member Banks, 1910-1926


Box 125 Folder 2 Exchanges, 1892



Box 126 Folder 13 Exchanges--3pm Exchange and Uniform Banking House, 1943-1944


Box 126 Folder 11 Exchanges--Elimination of the 3pm Exchange, 1942



Box 125 Folder 3 Exchanges--Extension of Coupon Exchange, 1936-1943



Box 126 Folder 12 Exchanges--Revised Rules for the 3pm Exchange, 1945



Box 129 Folder 2 Federal Reserve Act--Clippings, 1927 January-1930 December

1 scrapbook



Box 126 Folder 15 Federal Reserve Bank of New York, 1937



Box 128 Federal Reserve Bank of New York--Establishment Of--Newspaper Clippings, 1913-1914

2 scrapbooks



Box 125 Folder 1 Federal Reserve Bank of New York--Extending Closing Hour to 12:30pm, 1951, undated



Box 126 Folder 16 Federal Reserve Bank of New York--Membership in the Clearing House, 1944 November



Box 125 Folder 4 Federal Reserve Bank of New York--Organizational Manual, 1920 September 1


Box 125 Folder 5 Financial Purchasing Agents Conference, undated

Bylaws.



Box 129 Folder 3 Gold Fund Committee, 1914-1915, 1 Volumes

Minutes of the Gold Fund Committee, and its related Exchange Committee.



Box 125 Folder 6 Gold Fund Committee, 1914-1915



Box 127 Folder 12 Hallock, James C. (Estate)--Claim Against the New York Clearing House Association, 1896 May



Box 125 Folder 7-10 History of the New York Clearing House Association, circa 1896-1990, 4 folders



Box 129 Folder 4 Houblon Tankard, 1995

History of the tankard.



Box 127 Folder 13 Inland Exchange Committee--Report, etc., 1896-1915


Box 127 Folder 22 Interest on Deposits, Ruling #12, Amended, 1933 August 8


Box 127 Folder 15 Interest Rates and Calculation of Interest, 1932 August



Box 204 Folder 1 Last Lithographed Bank Statement, Week Ending 1888 April 7, Item is fragile and torn along a fold.



Box 127 Folder 16 Loan Certificates (Speciman, copy), 1893


Box 127 Folder 11 Loan Certificates Loss Distribution, 1914 August 13


Box 127 Folder 10 Loan Committee of 1861-1862--Report of the Associated Banks of the City of New York, 1862 June 12


Box 127 Folder 9 Loan Committees of 1857, 1860, 1861, 1863-1864, 1873, 1884, 1857-1884



Box 198 Folder 2 Resolution Honoring Loan Committee, 1893, Item is fragile.



Box 127 Folder 23 Lyman, George D.--Documents Received from Robert R. Huyler (grandson) (February 1858), 1853-1863



Box 124 Folder 7 Membership Applications--American Express Bank and Trust Company (#129), 1931


Box 124 Folder 7 Membership Applications--Battery Park National Bank (Application Withdrawn), 1918-1919


Box 124 Folder 3 Membership Applications--Brooklyn Trust Company (#102), 1943


Box 124 Folder 4 Membership Applications--Colonial Bank (#124), 1926


Box 124 Folder 7 Membership Applications--Columbia Bank (#122), 1918-1919


Box 124 Folder 5 Membership Applications--Commerical National Bank and Trust Company (#125), 1928


Box 124 Folder 4 Membership Applications--Equitable Trust Company (#123), 1920


Box 124 Folder 4 Membership Applications--Farmers Loan and Trust Company (#121), 1918


Box 124 Folder 8 Membership Applications--J.P. Morgan and Company, Inc. (#130), 1943


Box 124 Folder 3 Membership Applications--Lawyers Trust Company (#110), 1943


Box 124 Folder 6 Membership Applications--Manufacturers Trust Company (#128), 1918, 1930


Box 124 Folder 6 Membership Applications--Public National Bank and Trust (#127), 1930



Box 127 Folder 24 Names of Persons Authorized to Sign for Settlement of Balances at the New York Clearing House, Clearing House Members, and the Federal Reserve Bank, 1908


Box 127 Folder 25 National Board of Marine Underwriters vs. National Bank of the Republic of New York, 1890s


Box 127 Folder 26 National Broadway Bank, 1871, 1880


Box 127 Folder 27 National City Bank Hanover National Bank and Treasury Department, 1900


Box 127 Folder 28 National Currency Association of the City of New York--Certificate of Formation and Application for Membership in th Association, 1910, 1914


Box 127 Folder 29-32 National Currency Association of the City of New York--Committees, Minutes, Reports, Resolutions, 1908-1915, 4 folders



Box 141 Folder 2 National Currency Association of the City of New York--Minutes, 1908-1915, 1 Volumes



Box 207 National Currency Association of the City of New York--Scrapbook, 1908-1915, 1 Volumes



Box 127 Folder 17 New York Clearing House Association Loan Group of the Second Federal Reserve District, 1933 March


Box 127 Folder 33 New York Clearing House Association--Dinner, Re: 100 Broad Street, 1963 May 7


New York Clearing House Association--Newspaper Clippings--Scrapbooks

Mold remediation was performed on all of the scrapbooks except for #5 during 2022-2023. Although the scrapbooks can be used in the reading room, patrons that are sensitive to mold may still experience a reaction to materials that have been cleaned.

These primarily contain clippings about the acitivites of the member banks, etc. Most have an index in the front of the volume.



Box 228 Scrapbook #3, 1885 July - 1893 July, 1 Volumes



Box 229 Scrapbook #5, 1895 March - 1897 May, 1 Volumes



Box 230 Scrapbook #6, 1897 June - 1899 January, 1 Volumes



Box 231 Scrapbook #9, 1901 January-December, 1 Volumes



Box 232 Scrapbook #11, 1903, 1 Volumes



Box 233 Scrapbook #14, 1906, 1 Volumes



Box 234 Scrapbook #21, 1922 March - 1925 April, 1 Volumes



Box 127 Folder 34 New York Clearing House Association--Newspaper Clippings, 1946-1963

Scrapbook. Includes clippings related to the centennial, new building plans, and the American Bankers Association.



Box 123 Folder 7 New York Clearing House Association--Officers and Members of Commitees Since Organization, circa 1853-2000, 1 Volumes

Organized alphabetically.



Box 150 New York Clearing House Association--Officers and Members of Commitees Since Organization, 1854-1970, 1 Volumes

Organized chronologically.



Box 201 Folder 9 New York Clearing House Association--Officers and Clearing House Committee for 1985-1986 and Statistical Data for 1984-1985, 1985 October



Box 200 New York Clearing House Association--Seal, 1982



Box 127 Folder 18-19 New York Clearing House Certificates, 1933 March 4, 2 folders



Box 125 Folder 28 New York Clearing House Certificates of Deposit, circa 1912-1917, undated

Includes some unused 19th century forms.



Box 127 Folder 20 New York Clearing House Certificates--Certificate of incineration, 1933 April


Box 127 Folder 21 New York Clearing House Certificates--Forms, 1933



Box 126 Folder 20 New York Clearing House Proof, 1894 October 2



Box 136 Folder 1 New York Clearing House Building Company--Minutes, 1894-1923, 1 Volumes

Includes Certificate of Incorporation.


Box 136 Folder 2 New York Clearing House Building Company--Building Committee Minutes, 1894-1896, 1 Volumes


Box 136 Folder 3 New York Clearing House Building Company--Cash, 1894-1928, 1 Volumes


Box 136 Folder 4 New York Clearing House Building Company--Journal, 1894-1917, 1940-1944, 1 Volumes


Box 136 Folder 5 New York Clearing House Building Company--Ledger, 1894-1940, 1 Volumes



Box 175 New York Clearing House Building Company--Letterbook, 1915-1952, 1 Volumes

Outgoing carbon copies. Index in front of volume.



Box 116 Folder 1-4 New York Clearing House Building Company--Records, 1887-1914, 4 folders

Records include reports, statements, copies of reports to the Commissioners of Taxes and Assessments.



Box 138 Folder 2 New York Supreme Court--National Bank of Commerce et al v. Bank of New York and others--Extracts from Minutes, Constitution, Declarations of Trust and Certificates [of the Clearing House Association], 1897

Includes minutes of the Clearing House Association and the Trustees of the Clearing House Association Building, constitution, deeds, declarations of trust, and minutes of the Officers of Certain Banks.



Box 171 New York Supreme Court--New York Clearing House and the Matter of Ownernship of Pine Street Property, 1897-1898, 1 Volumes



Box 126 Folder 17 Officers of the Associated Banks--Excepts from Minutes, 1854 February 28

On explusion of members.


Box 126 Folder 18 Philadelphia Clearing House Letter to Stuart Lyman, 1896 February 26


Box 126 Folder 19 Planning Committee Meeting, 1951


Box 126 Folder 21 Publication of Articles About the New York Clearing House in the Post, 1929



Box 125 Folder 11 Publicity--Relating to the Beginning of Clearing House Interbank Payments System (CHIPS), 1970-1971



Box 126 Folder 22 Reconstruction Finance Corporation, 1933


Box 126 Folder 23 Report of the Committee on Inland Exchange to the Clearing House Committee, 1912


Box 126 Folder 24 Resolutions of Member Banks Re: Saturday Closing, Closed During July and August, 1939


Box 126 Folder 25 Return Items--Letters from Other Clearing Houses, 1940-1943


Box 126 Folder 26 Return Items--Rules, Regulations, etc., 1941-1943


Box 126 Folder 27 Rules and Regulations Regarding Collections Outside New York City, 1911, 1920



Box 201 Folder 1 Rogers & Gould Daily Rates for Money, 1893


Box 201 Folder 2-4 Sample Forms, 1893-1894, 3 folders


Box 201 Folder 5 Sample Forms--Statements, 1893-1894



Box 126 Folder 28 Saturday Clearances, 1941


Box 126 Folder 29-32 Savings Bond Promotion--Receptions, 1979-1982, 4 folders



Box 127 Folder 7 Statement of the Associated Banks of the City of New York, 1894


Box 127 Folder 8 Statement of the Loans Liabilities and Reserves, 1891 January-1894



Box 126 Folder 38 Tax Committee--Meetings, 1862 September 16-1863 June 8



Box 127 Folder 3 Taxes and Taxation--National Banks, 1950


Box 127 Folder 4 Taxes and Taxation--Tax on Bank Receipts, 1941



Box 126 Folder 37 Taxes and Taxation--Trust Companies, 1894-1956



Box 127 Folder 1 Taxes--Cedar Street Property Assessed Valuation, 1940 August 19



Box 126 Folder 39 Taxes--New York City Proposed Taxes, 1963


Box 126 Folder 33-36 Taxes--New York Clearing House Building Company vs. Commissioner of Taxes, 1896-1897, 4 folders

New York State Supreme Court and United States Supreme Court.



Box 127 Folder 2 Taxes--Taxes on Banks, 1944 November 1


Box 127 Folder 5 Trust Companies, 1911


Box 127 Folder 6 Universal Batch Card, 1984-1995


Addition 2019



Box 225 Constitution of the New York Clearing House


Panic of 1907:



Box 221 Folder 1 "The Issue of Clearing-House Certificated during the Panic of 1907" [article]



Box 224 Clearing House Loan Certfificates and Substitutes for Money used during the Panic of 1907 by James G. Cannon


Loan Committee:



Box 222 Folder 5 Loan Certificates. How Issued and Why, 1897


Box 222 Folder 7 Loan Committee (1884) Final report to the Association, 5 October 1886


Box 222 Folder 8 Loan Committee of 1873, 1884 and 1890. Certificates issued.


Box 222 Folder 9 Loan Committee of 1907-08. Report


Box 222 Folder 10 Loan Committee of 1893. Loan Certificates


Box 222 Folder 11 Loan Committee of 1914. Loan Certificates Issued by Other Clearing Houses.


Box 222 Folder 12 Loan Committee of 1890. Percentages of Loan Certificates to Deposits


Box 222 Folder 13 Loan Committee of 1890. Loan Certificates Issued and Cancelled


Box 222 Folder 14 Loan Committee of 1884. Loan Certificate Interest


Box 222 Folder 15 Loan Committee of 1890. Interest Received and Paid



Box 224 Clearing House Loan Certfificates and Substitutes for Money used during the Panic of 1907 by James G. Cannon


Box 224 Report of the Loan Committee of, 21 December 1914


General:



Box 222 Folder 1 Freedom to Complete [Testimony, 6 May 1981]


Box 222 Folder 1 Memo. on International Banking Facilities, 15 March 1979


Box 222 Folder 1 International Banking Facilities in The United States, 14 July 1978


Box 222 Folder 1 The New York Clearing House Response to Securities Act of 1933, 10 September 1974


Box 222 Folder 2 Proposals re. Bank Holding Company Act of 1956, 16 June 1969


Box 222 Folder 2 Report on Uniform Commercial Code, 1 December 1961


Box 222 Folder 2 A Study of the Interrelations of the Money Market and Government Securities Market, 22 October 1957


Box 222 Folder 3 Study and Recommendations on the New York Banking Law, 29 October 1962


Box 222 Folder 4 A Study of the Banking Law of the State of New York, 4 February 1957


Box 222 Folder 6 Membership Applications


Box 222 Folder 16 Names and Addresses and Salaries of Office Force


Box 222 Folder 17 Laying of the Corner Stone and Opening Ceremonies of the New Building in Cedar St.



Box 223 Memorandum on the History and Functions of the New York Clearing House Association: O'Connor v. Bankers Trust Company, et al.


Box 223 Plan for making exchanges, Settling balances, etc., 8 April 1853 (copy, August 1931)


Box 223 Letter from George Curtis and a scheme fo establishing a Clearing House, 25 August 1853


Box 223 List of Banks in New York City, 29 September 1853


Box 223 Minutes re. Death of Abraham Lincoln, 17 April 1865


Box 223 Memoranadum re. system of Fines, 8 August 1854


Box 223 Hanover Bank agreeing to establishment of a Clearing House, 6 September 1853


Box 223 Memoranda regarding the Clearing House commencement of operations, 11 October 1853


Box 223 Negative of the New York Clearing House building and a print


Box 223 New York Clearing House History


Box 223 Letter regarding settlement, 17 Decmebr 1853


Box 223 Plan for Exchanges 1853 by J. C. Hallock


Box 223 NY Clearing House Proof, 5 Feb. 1855

(list of banks with balances)


Box 223 Manager's Balance List, 2 October 1894


Box 223 Letters re. John L. Everitt, 1937


Box 223 Press Release: Copper Box


Box 223 Information binder re. membership of Clearing House


Box 223 Publications: Chapter Notes, October 1941 & Economic Conditions/Governmental Finance/United States Sucurities, January 1931


Box 223 Alexander C. Nagel: Remarks, 5 October 1953


Box 223 Letter from John E. Rovensky, 29 June 1961


Box 223 Clippings


Box 223 Harper's Weekly , 27 August 1887


Box 223 Minutes of Meetings of Bank Officers, August 16 - December 28, 1861, 8 folders


Box 223 Photograph of scale


Box 223 Miscellaneous Historical Photographs


Box 223 Harper's Weekly , 7 December 1907


Box 223 Manager's Balance List, 2 October 1894


Box 223 Letter re. danger of drafts on clerks, 20 January 1854


Box 223 Letter re. Constitution of the Clearing House, 2 August 1854


Box 223 NY Clearing House ckecks (copies), 1874 and 1875



Box 224 First Meeting: Order of Business, 3 October 1853


Box 224 Vaults of City Banks on Eve of Suspension, 13 October 1857


Box 224 Bank of the Republic request, 23 Sept. 1853


Box 224 Ad: New York Clearing House Passes the 73rd Anniversary of Its Organization


Box 224 Album of New York Clearing House certificates


Box 224 The New York & London Clearing House System. First edition, 1885


Box 224 Daily Journal for 1854 re. Exchanges