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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.

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.

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.

Title: Discussing The Holdup At Mercantile Trust Company
Date: 1976-12-07, 1976-12-08
Description: Discussing the holdup Mercantile Trust are, from left, Lt. Lawrence Arkley, St. Louis Department; Robert Neske and Bill Kenkel, security officers at Mercantile; Leigh Doxsee, a bank vice president and Ed Moreland, FBI special agent.

Title: Detective Checks For Fingerprints At Mercantile Trust Company
Date: 1960-12-02, 1960-12-03
Description: Teller's cage no. 62 is checked by Detective Fred Henke for fingerprints. Adjoining cages were unoccupied at the time of the holdup.

Title: "Give Me The Money In Right Draw"--Mercantile Trust Co.
Date: 1960-12-02, 1960-12-02
Description: Note used by bandits was apparently made with letters cut from a magazine. This note was left at Mercantile Trust Company Bank.

Title: Detective Dusting For Fingerprints At The Scene Of Robbery--Mercantile Trust Co.
Date: 1960-12-02, 1960-12-02
Description: Detective Fred Henke lifts fingerprints from teller window number 62 at 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Title: Mr. and Mrs. Cantino with an Officer After the Robbery
Date: 1953-04-25, 1953-04-25
Description: Mrs. Gloria Cantino and her husband, Armand J. Cantino, shown with an officer, were in the bank on business. One of the bandits used Mrs. Cantino as a shield, but release her when she pleaded that she was a mother. Cantino was slugged but not seriously hurt by officers who mistook him for one of the bandits.

Title: Markings Made By The Southwest Bank Bandits
Date: 1953-04-26, 1953-04-26
Description: Markings made by the Southwest Bank bandits are shown on this map discovered by police in a room rented by Fred W. Bowerman, the gang leader. Marking (A) is the rooming house at 3503 Park Ave., where Bowerman stayed. The large circle (B) encloses the area of the of the holdup attempt at Southwest Ave. and S. Kingshighway. (C)are neighborhoods where the four robbers lived prior to the holdup. (C) and (D) also denote places where the gang's automobiles were left. Other circles mark important intersections, viaducts and possible get-away routes.

Title: Third Automobile Used by the Gang
Date: 1953-04-27, 1953-04-27
Description: The third automobile used by the gang of Chicago bandits (nicknamed the Southwest Bank Bandits) was recovered yesterday on a parking lot at 4631 Shaw ave. Patrolman Raymond F. Griffie of the Second Police District is inspecting the car, a blue Hudson. The car was driven by Fred W. Bowerman, gang leader.

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.

Title: Smiling Despite the Ordeal
Date: 1953-04-25, 1953-04-25
Description: Smiling despite the ordeal of being held as a shield by a desperate bandit at the Southwest Bank holdup yesterday is Miss Eva Hamilton being assisted by a policeman at City Hospital wher she was treated for two broken wrists.

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.

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