Scope and Contents SHAWNEETOWN BANK PROJECT Lucille Lawler, a leading local historian in Gallatin County Illinois, discusses the historical background of the bank, and the ownership the bank building and its lot. Also provides information on the people employed or associated with the bank and their descendants. Lawler also discusses the records of the Shawneetown Federal Land District. 2 tapes, 135 mins., 44 pp. Interview by Horace Q. Waggoner, 1978 OPEN See collateral file: interviewer's...

Scope and Contents Memories of a Bank is a published compilation of abridged oral histories and a documentary inventory relating to the Shawneetown Bank, prepared by Sangamon State University under contract with the Illinois Department of Conservation. The narrators discuss the structure and furnishings of the former State Bank of Illinois, its history, its personnel, the town of Shawneetown and the disastrous 1937 Ohio River flood.24 tapes, 3 vols., 839 pp. Interviews by Horace Q. Waggoner,...