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Security National Bank Savings and Trust
Title
Security National Bank Savings and Trust
Date
1953-11-15, 1953-11-15
Description
Cove lighting, modern windows and all new appointments have modernized Security National's interior. The bank will hold open house all day Thursday and Friday to show customers and guests the results of its large-scale remodeling and redecorating program.
Gaslight-Style Fixtures
Title
Gaslight-Style Fixtures
Date
1953-11-15, 1953-11-15
Description
Gaslight-style fixtures and old fashioned tellers "cages" were high style in January, 1922, when Security National Bank Savings and Trust Company, 312 North Eighth st., first opened for business.
Mercantile Trust Company One-Hundredth Anniversary
Title
Mercantile Trust Company One-Hundredth Anniversary
Date
1955-04-13, 1955-04-13
Description
Mercantile Trust Company observes its one-hundredth anniversary with a special flag-raising and luncheon ceremony. From left are Kenton R. Cravens, president of the bank; Hord Hardin, chairman of the Executive Committee; Mayor Raymond R. Tucker, congratulating Sidney Maestre, chairman of the board, and Gale F. Johnston, vice chairman of the board.
Renovation Of The Mercantile Trust Company
Title
Renovation Of The Mercantile Trust Company
Date
1958-08-14, 1958-08-18
Description
Renovation of the Mercantile Trust Company annex building at Seventh street and Lucas avenue is nearing completion.
A Total Of 7500 Safe Deposit Boxes--Mercantile Trust Co.
Title
A Total Of 7500 Safe Deposit Boxes--Mercantile Trust Co.
Date
1951-09-01, 1951-09-01
Description
A total of 7500 safe deposit boxes were holsted out of the basement of the Mississippi Valley Trust Company yesterday and moved to the Mercantile Commerce Bank & Trust Company, Eighth and Locust streets, where the new Mercantile Trust Company, a merger of the two banks, will open Tuesday. Armed police and bank guards surround one load of the boxes just after a portable crane had hoisted them from the Mississippi Valley basement through a hole cut in the sidewalk on Broadway at Olive street.
Mercantile Trust Company Armor Plate Vault
Title
Mercantile Trust Company Armor Plate Vault
Date
1962-04-05, 1962-04-08
Description
This armor plate vault door on one of Mercantile Trust Company's safe deposit vaults was built by Bethlehem Steel Company over 60 years ago. A plaque bearing the Bethlehem name is being pointed out by Mr. Peter S. Daust, head of the bank's safe deposit department to Miss Rhea Dalba, a bank employee.
Mercantile Trust Company Dining Room
Title
Mercantile Trust Company Dining Room
Date
1951-08-31, 1951-08-31
Description
Free meals are served to the bank's employees in the spacious dining room on the seventh floor of its Seventh Street Building. Meals include salads, desserts, and plentiful serving of vegetables and meat.
Mercantile Trust Company Drive-up Service
Title
Mercantile Trust Company Drive-up Service
Date
1967-06-04, 1967-06-04
Description
Mercantile Trust Company teller works the inside of the drive-up service.
Mercantile Trust Company's Inquiry Station and Automatic Signature Verification System
Title
Mercantile Trust Company's Inquiry Station and Automatic Signature Verification System
Date
1968-05-04, 1968-05-04
Description
(left) This is an inquiry station at the Mercantile Trust Company that is equipped with closed-circuit T.V. monitor and keyboard. By turning to this unit, the teller can check the signature of a customer within 6 to 10 seconds. (right) Above is the automatic storage retriever unit, the "brain" of Mercantile's Automatic Signature Verificiation System. Attached to the main unit is an operator's console for additions, deletions and corrections of signature cards.
New System At The Mercantile Trust Co.
Title
New System At The Mercantile Trust Co.
Date
1982-11-27, 1982-11-27
Description
Mercantile Trust Company has become the first bank in the nation to put into general service the IBM 4700, an advanced computer system for bank tellers. Mercantile has been testing the state-of-the-art computer terminal system since mid-May in a joint program with IBM. The system enables tellers to serve customers more quickly and efficiently.
Bank Safe Deposit Box
Title
Bank Safe Deposit Box
Date
1986-07-24, 1986-07-24
Description
An employee of the Southwest Bank opens one of the bank's safe deposit boxes.
Bank Vault
Title
Bank Vault
Date
1986-07-24, 1986-07-24
Description
An opened vault at the Southwest Bank. Image displays the safe deposity boxes inside.
100 Police Officers Inspect the Scene
Title
100 Police Officers Inspect the Scene
Date
1953-04-25, 1953-04-25
Description
In Addition to the 100 police who answered the holdup alarm, thousands of spectators were attracted to the scene at the Southwest Bank. The curious came to view the battleground long after the shooting was over.
Scene of the Wild Gun Battle
Title
Scene of the Wild Gun Battle
Date
1953-04-25, 1953-04-25
Description
Scene of the wild gun battle, where police shot it out with a gang of Chicago bandits trapped as they held up the Southwest Bank. Thousands of persons were attracted to the area.
Southwest Bank Employees and Customers
Title
Southwest Bank Employees and Customers
Date
1953-04-25, 1953-04-25
Description
Bank employees and customers poured out into the open air, weeping from the effects of tear gas bombs hurled into the building by police, as soon as the shooting was over.
The Largest Bank Under One Roof--Mercantile Trust Co.
Title
The Largest Bank Under One Roof--Mercantile Trust Co.
Date
1951-09-05, 1951-09-05
Description
The largest bank under one roof west of the Mississippi River, the Mercantile Trust Company, began operations yesterday, formed from the merger of the Mercantile-Commerce Bank and Trust Company and the Mississippi Valley Trust Company and located in the former's quarters in teh block bounded by Eighth and Seventh, Locust and St. Charles streets.
Mercantile Trust Company Drive-up Service
Title
Mercantile Trust Company Drive-up Service
Date
1967-06-04, 1967-06-04
Description
Customers of the Mercantile Trust Company use the bank drive up services.
Mercantile Trust Company
Title
Mercantile Trust Company
Date
1939-02-19, 1939-02-19
Description
Opening of the vault door at the Mercantile Trust Company.
Mercantile Trust Company Building
Title
Mercantile Trust Company Building
Description
Picture of the Mercantile Trust Company building
Wall Falls
Title
Wall Falls
Date
1958-02-25, 1958-02-25
Description
A wall of the old Telegraphers' National Bank Building forms a pile of debris after its sudden collapse during wrecking operations at the Broadway and Pine street site yesterday.

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