Title: The miracle of mutual savings, as illustrated by one hundred years of the Bowery Savings Bank,
Authors: Orcutt, William Dana, 1870-1953
Publisher: The Bowery Savings Bank,
Year: 1934
Subjects: Bowery Savings Bank of New York.
Contents: pt. 1. the Miracle of Mutual Savings -- pt. 2. The Genesis of the Savings Bank -- New York City Becomes Self-conscious -- pt. 3. The Birth of an Institution -- pt. 4. A Quarter Century of Growing -- The Panic of 1837 -- A Predestined Bank in a Predestined City -- The Panic of 1854 -- Dormant Accounts -- The Panic of 1857 -- Rumblings of Civil War -- pt. 5. Through the Civil War to the 20th Century -- The Civil War Period -- After Effects of the Civil War -- The Panic of 1873 -- National Prosperity -- Mysteries of Bookkeeping -- Sitting in the Chapel -- The Closing Years of a Century -- The Panic of 1893 -- The Beginnings of the Bowery's Broader Work -- pt. 6. Another Quarter Century -- Banking by Mail -- Fluctuations and a High Water Mark -- The Panic of 1907 -- The World War Pariod -- After the World War -- pt. 7. The Modern Bowery Savings Bank -- The Market Crash of 1929 -- Dividends -- The Era of Depression -- What is Done with the Deposits -- City Planning in the Lower East Side -- The Bowery's Policy of Expansion -- The Value of Esprit de Corps -- The Fifth Avenue Office --The Old Bowery Office -- School Savings -- High Spots of 1933 -- Protection for Depositors -- pt. 8. Looking Forward.