New York Clearing House Association Records, 1868-1950

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New York Clearing House Association Records, 1868-1950

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The New York Clearing House Association Records consist of 42 large volumes of the association's financial ledgers, which contain daily and occasionally monthly accounts of the assets of numerous financial institutions in New York City in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This is not a complete set of all New York Clearing House records between 1868 and 1950: missing are volumes for the years 1871-1872, 1875-1877, 1918-1922, 1937, and 1940.

52 linear ft. (42 ledgers)

eng,

Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 6347647

Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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New York Clearing House Association

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The New York Clearing House Association was the first and largest bank clearing house in the United States. Established before the Civil War, this entity was intended by its founders to systematize and rationalize previously disorganized exchanges and settlements between New York City's banks. These institutions which established the Clearing House became the very heart of American finance in the late nineteenth century as the nation developed a financial system increasingly autonom...