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Illinois Trust and Savings Bank
Image | 1906 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "The Illinois Trust and Savings Bank at the corner of Jackson Boulevard and La Salle Street is one of the oldest and most stable institutions in the city. The architecture of the building is particularly attractive, although the surrounding skyscrapers dwarf its really fine proportions. It is said to be an exact model of the Bank of England."
Busey First National Bank
Image | 1984 | Champaign-Urbana Historic Built EnvironmentShows the east side of the structure.
Monetary Credit Policies; Ag & Business in the future
Audio | 1949 | WILL Sound Recordings (Digital Surrogates)
Marine Company building
Image | 1869 | Picture ChicagoThe Marine Company of Chicago, a bank and foreign exchange dealer, was located at the corner of LaSalle and Lake streets.
Chicago National Bank
Image | 1902 | Picture ChicagoFrom text: "When the new building of the Chicago National Bank was projected it was aimed to produce a structure which would immediately suggest to the observer that it was a bank. How well that idea has been carried out by Jenney & Mundie, the architects, it needs but a glance at the bank building to show. Of the Corinthian order of architecture, with ninety feet front on...
Safe deposit vaults
Image | 1902 | Picture ChicagoFrom text: "Between these sets of apartments is the great treasure room of the safe deposit vaults--the immense room which is lined with 6,000 private safe deposit boxes of various sizes. The floor of this apartment is made of chrome-steel plates, three one-inch plates being riveted together, making a drill-proof and bomb-proof floor. The ceiling and side walls are constru...
Busey First National Bank
Image | 1981 | Champaign-Urbana Historic Built EnvironmentShows the north and east sides of the structure.
Bank vaults on main floor
Image | 1902 | Picture ChicagoFrom 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 wall...
First National Bank
Image | Champaign-Urbana Historic Built EnvironmentShows the south and west sides of the structure.
Champaign County Bank and Trust Co.
Audio | 1949 | WILL Sound Recordings (Digital Surrogates)
Monetary Credit Policies
Audio | 1949 | WILL Sound Recordings (Digital Surrogates)
Milwaukee Avenue State Bank
Image | 1893 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "[Engraved for The Standard Guide Company.] The Milwaukee Avenue State Bank. [See "Banks, State and Private."]". From text: "Location Milwaukee Avenue and Carpenter street. … Successor to the banking house of Paul O. Stensland & Co., the leading financial institution of the northwest section of the city. The former bank had built up a very large business with ...
First National Bank Building
Image | 1869 | Picture ChicagoThe First National Bank was located at the southwest corner of State and Washington streets.
Champaign County Bank and Trust Co.
Image | 1978 | Champaign-Urbana Historic Built EnvironmentShows the south and west sides of the structure.
First Federal Savings Bank of Champaign-Urbana
Image | 1996 | Champaign-Urbana Historic Built EnvironmentShows the east side of the structure.
Ghost Town
Image | 1973 | College of Fine and Applied Arts: Teaching CollectionCulture: American
Monetary & Credit Policies
Audio | 1949 | WILL Sound Recordings (Digital Surrogates)
Merchants' Farmers', and Mechanics' Savings Bank
Image | 1869 | Picture ChicagoFrom text: "We give a view of the building occupied by the Merchants', Farmers and Mechanics' Savings Bank, No. 13 Clark street. This institution was chartered in 1861, and in 1864 removed to its present very appropriate and convenient edifice. The institution is in a highly flourishing condition, and is deservedly popular.""
Entrance to vault
Image | 1902 | Picture ChicagoFrom text: "The portal of this treasure house is guarded by a double set of eight-ton doors similar to those in position in the business vaults of the bank on the floor above. A sentinel stands always at either door, although during business hours the eight-ton door is of course swung open and a heavy bronze and steel-grated door bars the entrance on the inner side of the v...
First National Bank in Champaign
Image | 1962 | Champaign-Urbana Historic Built EnvironmentShows the north and east sides of the structure.
Champaign County Bank and Trust Co.
Image | 1980 | Champaign-Urbana Historic Built EnvironmentShows the east and north sides of the structure.
Champaign County Bank and Trust Co.
Audio | 1949 | WILL Sound Recordings (Digital Surrogates)
Champaign County Bank and Trust Co.
Audio | 1949 | WILL Sound Recordings (Digital Surrogates)

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