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Bank vaults on main floor
Chicago, historical, pictorial

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Title
Bank vaults on main floor
Description
From text: "At the rear of the banking floor are ten immense vaults in which the money, valuables, and books of the bank are placed at the close of each day's business. If ever anything built by human hands was made impregnable to assault from without, this business vault of the Chicago National Bank certainly was. It stands three stories in height and is clear of the walls on every side, in order that watchmen may completely encircle it in their rounds at night. Attack from the outside by way of the floor or ceiling is equally out of the question, the surrounding brick walls being four feet thick in the basement, three feet thick on the banking floor, and two feet thick above that... If ever criminals should conceive a scheme for attempting to reach the interior of these vaults, they would find their keenest ingenuity baffled."
Date
1902  
Type
Photograph  
File Name
chicagohistorica00chic_raw_0057.jp2
Source Page
http://www.archive.org/stream/chicagohistorica00chic#page/50/mode/2up
Link to the Full-Text
http://hdl.handle.net/10111/UIUCOCA:chicagohistorica00chic
Subject
  • Vaults (Strong rooms)  
  • Banks  
Coverage-Spatial
The Loop (Chicago, Ill.)  
Coverage-Temporal
1900-1909  
Publisher
  • University of Illinois at Chicago  
  • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign  
Rights
No Copyright - United States
Rights Description
Images in this collection were digitized through the University of Illinois Library's participation in the Open Content Alliance and may be used freely. Attribution to the University of Illinois is appreciated. High-resolution images can be downloaded from the Internet Archive at www.archive.org. For further information, contact dcc@library.uiuc.edu.
Book Title
Chicago, historical, pictorial  
Author of the Book
Chicago National Bank  
Collection Title
Picture Chicago
Collection
Picture Chicago
TitleBank vaults on main floor
DescriptionFrom text: "At the rear of the banking floor are ten immense vaults in which the money, valuables, and books of the bank are placed at the close of each day's business. If ever anything built by human hands was made impregnable to assault from without, this business vault of the Chicago National Bank certainly was. It stands three stories in height and is clear of the walls on every side, in order that watchmen may completely encircle it in their rounds at night. Attack from the outside by way of the floor or ceiling is equally out of the question, the surrounding brick walls being four feet thick in the basement, three feet thick on the banking floor, and two feet thick above that... If ever criminals should conceive a scheme for attempting to reach the interior of these vaults, they would find their keenest ingenuity baffled."
Date1902  
TypePhotograph  
File Namechicagohistorica00chic_raw_0057.jp2
Source Pagehttp://www.archive.org/stream/chicagohistorica00chic#page/50/mode/2up
Link to the Full-Texthttp://hdl.handle.net/10111/UIUCOCA:chicagohistorica00chic
Subject
  • Vaults (Strong rooms)  
  • Banks  
Coverage-SpatialThe Loop (Chicago, Ill.)  
Coverage-Temporal1900-1909  
Publisher
  • University of Illinois at Chicago  
  • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign  
RightsNo Copyright - United States
Rights DescriptionImages in this collection were digitized through the University of Illinois Library's participation in the Open Content Alliance and may be used freely. Attribution to the University of Illinois is appreciated. High-resolution images can be downloaded from the Internet Archive at www.archive.org. For further information, contact dcc@library.uiuc.edu.
Book TitleChicago, historical, pictorial  
Author of the BookChicago National Bank  
Collection TitlePicture Chicago
CollectionPicture Chicago

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