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 This material includes various historical documents such as clippings, certificates, reports, and other items.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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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:
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