Cage 17 Guide to the Walla Walla Savings Bank (Walla Walla, Washington) Records 1889-1897 Walla Walla Savings Bank Records Finding aid prepared by MASC staff Funding for encoding this finding aid was provided through a grant awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. Washington State University Libraries: Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections (MASC)

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Cage 17 Walla Walla Savings Bank Walla Walla Savings Bank (Walla Walla, Washington) Records 1889-1897 6 linear feet of shelf space. Correspondence, documents, accounts and ledgers of a commercial bank, financing such activities as the foreign marketing of wheat, from its opening in 1889 to its suspension in 1893. Also correspondence and accounts of the receivers who saw to the liquidation of its affairs, 1893-1897. Collection materials are in English.

The Walla Walla Savings Bank was organized at Walla Walla, Washington, in 1889 under the authority of the territorial banking and corporate laws. The major organizer and President of the bank was James K. Edminston, previously a Seattle mortgage broker operating a branch office in Walla Walla. The bank began operations on September 2, 1889 and concentrated its efforts in commercial banking in the wheat trade. The major eastern correspondent was the Chase National Bank of New York City, and operations extended as far as St. Petersburg. Operations continued for slightly over four years with the bank suspending operations on December 9, 1893, its drafts having gone to protest in the general stringency of 1893. From December, 1893 to early 1897 the bank was in the hands of three successive receivers who saw to the liquidation of its affairs.

The collection is relatively intact, although there are a few open spots in the chronology of correspondence.

The collection is arranged into three series; 1) Correspondence, original and letter books, for the years of active operations. 2) Accounts and correspondence of the receivers. 3) Ledger and account books. Arrangement is chronological, except that the large-size ledger books have been segregated into a separate series for convenience in storing and handling.

This collection is open for research use.

[Item Description]. Cage 17, Guide to the Walla Walla Savings Bank Records . Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University Libraries, Pullman, WA.

This collection is indexed under the following headings in the online catalog. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons, or places should search the catalog using these headings.

Edminston, James K. Walla Walla Savings Bank (Walla Walla, Wash.)--Archives Banks and banking--Washington (State)--Walla Walla Wheat--Marketing Agriculture Business, Labor, and Industry Washington (State)

The following section contains a detailed listing of the materials in the collection.

Series 1: Correspondence and Letterbooks 1 1 Letterbook September 2 1889-September 10 1890 1 2 Letterbook August 31 1891-June 17 1892 2 3 Letterbook June 18 1892-June 10 1893 2 4 Letterbook October 28 1893-December 22 1893 2 5 Letterbook, forms for remittances, drafts April 11 1893-December 9 1893 3 6 Correspondence March 28 1891-August 31 1893 3 7 Correspondence September 1 1893-October 7 1893 3 8 Correspondence, (forms) October 7 1893-November 25 1893 4 9 Correspondence November 4 1893-December 9 1893 4 10 Forwarding draft stub book September 2 1889-December 9 1893 4 11 Foreign exchange transactions stub book September 2 1889-December 9 1893 4 12 Cashier's book (cash drawer record) September 2 1889-December 9 1893 Series 2: Accounts and Correspondence 5 13 Book of protests 1894 5 14 Letterbook, December 1893-January, [1896] 5 15 Receiver's book, (funds and accounts) 1894-1897 5 16 Receiver's book, (main ledger, some news clippings) 1894-1897 Series 3: Ledger and Account Books 17 Cash ledger September 2 1889-December 1 1891 18 Cash ledger July 1 1892-October 31 1893 19 Cash ledger November 1 1893-December 9 1893 20 Daily balance ledger September 2 1889-December 9 1893 21 Depositor's daily balances September 2 1889-October 31 1891 22 Depositor's daily balances November 1 1891-April 27 1893 23 Depositor's daily balances April 27 1893-December 9 1893 24 Collections September 2 1889-December 9 1893 25 Accounts ledger September 1889-January 1892 26 Accounts ledger January 1892-January 1893 27 Accounts ledger January 1893-December 9 1893 28 Draft Register October 26 1893 - December 9 1893 29 Index of depositors. 30 Inventory of notes and assets prepared by receiver undated 31 Index 1892 32 Index 1894