New York Clearing House Association records, 1868-1950.

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New York Clearing House Association records, 1868-1950.

The New York Clearing House Association Records consist of 42 large bound volumes.

52 linear ft. (42 ledgers)

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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...