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Title: Bank of St. Louis - Krupnik Cartoon Display
Date: 1967-04-20, 1967-04-21
Description: "Claude Matthews, 8565 Ginger, a Southwestern Bell supervisor, and Mrs. Gloria Sullivan, checking department employe at the Bank of St. Louis, view sports cartoons by Amour Krupnik, Globe-Democrat artist. The display, in the bank's main floor lobby at Ninth and Washington, continues through April 28."

Title: Boatmen's Bank - Bankmark
Date: 1968-01-19, 1968-01-19
Description: "Bankmark has been selected as the name for the new charge card system which is being introduced into the St. Louis trade area by Credit Systems, Inc., it was announced by James E. Brown, president. Mr. Brown said that a fourth bank - Brentwood Bank of Brentwood - has joined the system as a principle member. Others include Boatmen's National Bank, First National Bank in St. Louis, and The Mercantile Trust Co., N.A. who founded Credit Systems, Inc. The symbol, though modern in design, is ancient in meaning. The shape of early coins, which were hammered rather than cast, is portrayed by the overall appearance of the seal. Three pillars suggesting the bank, the merchant, and the consumer are prominent. The horizontal element above the pillars extends service to all."

Title: Northwestern Bank & Trust Co.
Date: 1966-07-08
Description: Northwestern Bank employees interior shot

Title: Boatmen's Bank - Drawing for Drive-In Facility
Date: 1969-05-05, 1969-05-05
Description: "Drawing of proposed Boatmen's Bank drive-in facility in Equitable Building."

Title: Boatmen's Bank - Opening the Art Exhibit
Date: 1964, 1964
Description: "Opening the bicentennial art exhibit of the Boatmen's National Bank are, (left to right,) Harry F. Harrington, Boatmen's chairman and president; William Pagenstecher, vice president and curator of the bank's art collection; and Frank Faquin, who prepared the special exhibit in the bank's lobby. They are standing by George Caleb Bingham's The County Election, one of three paintings in the artist's "Political Series" which are part of the bank's collection. These paintings, which were done between 1851 and 1855, depict three phases of a typical Missouri political campaign at about the time Boatmen's was founded in 1847. Bingham, while best known as a painter, also served in various state offices, and took part in numerous political campaigns for other candidates."

Title: Boatmen's Bank - Routed By Ammonia Fumes
Date: 1961-03-20, 1961-03-21
Description: "Routed by ammonia fumes, occupants of the Boatmen's Bank building crowd the corner at Broadway and Olive street. Some 2500 persons were driven from the 19-story building and its 11-story annex by fumes escaping from a break in a refrigerant pipeline beneath the pavement in the 400 block of Locust street Monday."

Title: Gunman Threatens Teller and Robs Bank
Date: 1968-08-10, 1968-08-10
Description: The Southern Commercial and Savings Bank, 7201 South Broadway, was robbed of an undetermined sum of money at 12:30 p.m. Friday by an armed man who told teller Mrs. Opal Byington (above), "Give me the money or I'll blow your guts out."

Title: St. Louis de Ville Motor Hotel
Date: 1963-04-19, 1973-04-23
Description: "Nearing completion on Lindell boulevard at Taylor avenue are two projects. Building in the foreground is the St. Louis de Ville luxury motel hotel, which is being built east of Taylor. Beyond the motel is the new Lindell Terrace Apartments, west of Taylor."

Title: Mercantile Trust Company Office
Date: 1965-10-31, 1965-10-31
Description: Made for the files of the Mercantile Trust Company, this photo of the firm's offices at Eighth and Locust has become a part of St. Louis history. Included in the 1899 picture is one of the city's first horseless carriages, in that era sometimes called "machines of the devil."

Title: Shortly After The Holdup--Mercantile Trust Company
Date: 1960-12-02, 1960-12-03
Description: Shortly after the holdup, this was the scene inside the Mercantile Trust Company where two men escaped with $15,226 Friday while customers were unaware that a robbery was taking place.

Title: Mercantile Trust Company Bank Plaza
Date: 1960-12-25, 1960-12-25
Description: New drive-in bank building at 13th and Olive streets for possible year end round-up.

Title: Scene Of $15,000 Bank Robbery--Mercantile Trust Company
Date: 1960-12-02, 1960-12-03
Description: Scene of the $15,000 bank robbery was the Mercantile Trust Company which occupied a full city block between Locust, St. Charles, Seventh and Eighth streets.

Title: Mercantile Trust Company
Date: 1966-03-31, 1966-03-31
Description: Mercantile Trust Company has announced plans to install an automatic signature verification system similar to the test model shown above. The Mercantile installation, the first of its kind to be put into business use, will consist of 16 inquiry stations, equipped with closed circuit TV and keyboards, plus automatic filing and retrieval units.

Title: Department of Welfare Division of Children's Services Administration Office
Date: 1968-04-10
Description: Off to a new home with happy, adoptive parents. There are always qualified couples ready to adopt babies, but it is more difficult to place older children.

Title: Operation Shoehorn Big Success
Date: 1967-05-30
Description: First National Bank in St. Louis over a recent weekend performed a minor miracle with the unlikely name of "Operation Shoehorn."

Title: They're All Award Winners
Date: 1967-03-22
Description: Missouri Savings Association, Hanley Rd and Forsyth Blvd.

Title: Customers at the Tower Grove Bank and Trust
Date: 1969-08-13, 1969-08-13
Description: Guard David Whelan at Tower Grove Bank is on hand to provide both the bank and the customers with an added measure of security.

Title: Honored For Long Service
Date: 1961-02-08, 1961-02-08
Description: Honored for long service to the Tower Grove Bank are three employees with more than 40 years service. They were among 33 honored at a dinner in the University Club Wednesday night. Bank President Robert J. Gaddy (second from left) congratulates Arthur L. Locatell for 50 years' service as Edward Schroeder (left) and Erwin P. Geimer look on. Both have been with the bank for 42 years.

Title: Bank Marks 65th Year; Worker Recalls 1902 Hitching Posts
Date: 1967-09-05, 1967-09-05
Description: Harry A. Muehling, 65-year employee at Manchester Bank, re-enacting his first day at the bank in 1902 in an old cashier's cage. Introducing him to friends and customers Tuesday are hostesses Mrs. Karen Bergmoser and Mrs. Trena Henthorn.

Title: Northwestern Bank & Trust Co.
Date: 1966-07-08
Description: Northwestern Bank employees interior shot

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