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,...

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SHAWNEETOWN BANK PROJECT Sherman, resident of Shawneetown, recalls the Shawneetown Bank: bank lobby, furnishings, marble counters, and ironwork, as well as individual tellers and cashiers. She also recalls the bank's apartments: layout of rooms and furnishings, the coal furnace, kitchen, bedrooms, tenants, the second and third floors, and the 1937 flood.

1 tape, 90 mins., 42 pp. Interview by Horace Waggoner, 1978 OPEN See collateral file