Oberlin Banks, 1863-1985 (span)

Subgroup I.  First National Bank, 1863-1882

            Comprises 28 volumes of records such as a cash book, foreign bills of exchange, journals, ledgers, registers, morning statements, and tickler files.  Use microfilm copy.

Subgroup II.  Citizens’ National Bank, 1882-1904

            Comprises 37 volumes of records such as journals, ledgers, registers, receipt books, signature book, tickler files, and weekly deposit balances.  Use microfilm copy.

Subgroup III.  Oberlin Savings Bank, 1905, 1911-21, 1923-25, 1933, ca. 1950s-1985, n.d. (0.4 l.f.)

            The materials include historical information on the Oberlin Savings Bank’s response to the banking crisis of 1933.  The photographic materials include a negative of the bank’s front door with a closure sign by order of the federal government.  Other photographs document the bank’s main building in Oberlin and its branches in Carlisle Township, Kipton and Wellington, and its employees.  Two folders hold reprints of historical photographs of Oberlin, many of which are copies of images in the Oberlin College Archives.

Subgroup IV. Northern Ohio Bank, 1904-06 (Subgroups IV through VI in 0.2 l.f.)

            Comprises bylaws and minutes in a bound volume, and copies of clippings and manuscript pages.

Subgroup V. People’s Banking Company, 1926, n.d.

            Comprises two copies of a twentieth anniversary booklet published in 1926, and a household tips booklet, undated.

Subgroup VI. Historical Information, 1964

            Contains a booklet published in 1964 entitled “Banking in Lorain County, Ohio, 1818-1954,” and clippings about personnel at the Lorain County Savings and Trust Co.,

Oberlin.

Subgroup VII. Microfilm  (2.50 l.f.)

            27 rolls of original and silver duplicate film of records in Subgroups I and II.