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Merchants National Bank ledgers

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Held at: Quakertown Historical Society [Contact Us]Upper Bucks County Visitor Center, 21 N Main Street, Quakertown, Pennsylvania

This is a finding aid. It is a description of archival material held at the Quakertown Historical Society. Unless otherwise noted, the materials described below are physically available in their reading room, and not digitally available through the web.

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Merchants National Bank, Quakertown, Pennsylvania, was organized in 1902 with $50,000 initial capital Merchants National Bank; James H. Shelly served as president. The bank closed some time after 1961.

Bibliography:

The Bankers' Magazine, vol. LXV (July-December 1902): 707. Accessed May 29, 2013. http://tinyurl.com/pt8uwme

This collection consists of over one dozen ledgers of Merchants National Bank (Quakertown, Pennsylvania) dating from the time of the bank's organization in 1902 until 1936. It includes daily balance books, bond records, saving fund ledgers, a certified check ledger, individual ledgers, general day books, general cash books, individual liabilities, daily statement books, and general ledgers. Some volumes are indexed.

Summary descriptive information on this collection was compiled in 2012-2014 as part of a project conducted by the Historical Society of Pennsylvania to make better known and more accessible the largely hidden collections of small, primarily volunteer run repositories in the Philadelphia area. The Hidden Collections Initiative for Pennsylvania Small Archival Repositories (HCI-PSAR) was funded by a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

This is a preliminary finding aid. No physical processing, rehousing, reorganizing, or folder listing was accomplished during the HCI-PSAR project.

In some cases, more detailed inventories or finding aids may be available on-site at the repository where this collection is held; please contact Quakertown Historical Society directly for more information.

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Quakertown Historical Society
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Finding aid prepared by Celia Caust-Ellenbogen and Faith Charlton through the Historical Society of Pennsylvania's Hidden Collections Initiative for Pennsylvania Small Archival Repositories
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This preliminary finding aid was created as part of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania's Hidden Collections Initiative for Pennsylvania Small Archival Repositories. The HCI-PSAR project was made possible by a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
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