No online banking or computer print outs.
So....in 1907, what was actually required of a bank teller to make note of his transactions?

l.e. on 19th February 2015 @ 9:28am

You mean besides cursive handwriting, right?! ;-)

spinsur on 19th February 2015 @ 9:46am

Looks like "Dead Lobster" wallpaper! Lovely..... Notice they were not "Tellers", but "Cashiers"

judy on 19th February 2015 @ 10:56am

Cashiers/Tellers had big ledgers for tracking transactions, which were transcribed by hand into account ledgers by clerk/bookkeepers. There were primitive comptometers available, which were cranked. In 1969 I had a departmental budget position with the old PNB, and got the first four-function electronic calculator in the department. It was about 12 inches square with a nixie tube display, weighed about 12 or 13 pounds, and cost $800 in 1969 dollars. It was a joy to be able to get rid of the old, slow, and noisy mechanical Friden.

Jerry Larsen on 19th February 2015 @ 11:41am

I will stick with "teller". It is easier to write in cursive than "cashier".

Since I know I would forget who had just come in to the bank and who had just given me money, what did they write down during a transaction? Did they have the ledger right there by the window?
Was there carbon paper back then?
Were there checks in 1907 or was every transaction cash?

I looked up Friden. Interesting biography.
http://www.rauck.net/friden/History-01.htm

l.e. on 19th February 2015 @ 12:04pm

They had checks back then.

Jeffrey Bryant on 19th February 2015 @ 5:14pm

How and in what year did the county acquire the Butler Bank building?

arlen sheldrake on 20th February 2015 @ 6:25am

I would love to know what the colors were in those two different wall papers. I wonder if they "fought," But Victorian era I guess. Like that old clock there on the back wall.

Charlott on 20th February 2015 @ 7:18am

Thanks so much for posting this. I have an old canvas bank bag, from this bank.

Lesa on 15th April 2015 @ 12:15pm

A history of the early banks in Hood River can be found at:
http://oregonnews.uoregon.edu/lccn/sn83009939/1910-04-13/ed-1/seq-1/

Jeffrey Bryant on 8th August 2015 @ 8:38am

I found an interesting Gold Coin Promissory note for the Butler Banking Co in a book in Cottonwood Az. . It is blank but says " $_____ Hood River Oregon______________192___
either of us promise to pay to the order of ___________________ AT THE OFFICE OF THE BUTLER BANKING COMPANY hood river Oregon_________DOLLARS in Gold Coin of United States of America [ETC]... please contact me if interested. it is Very Good condition. might be nice addition to your museum. - Jeff

jeff P on 27th March 2017 @ 5:46pm