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 |
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Coverage-Spatial | The Loop (Chicago, Ill.) |
Coverage-Temporal | 1900-1909 |
Publisher | |
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 |
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Bank vaults on main floor |