Back to the Fifties : More Ketchikan Photos by Paulu Saari
Title:
Hart Otterlei and New Banking Machine, First National Bank, 1954
Photographer:
Paulu T. Saari
Description:
Ketchikan Daily News article, 1/14/1954
"TO KEEP ABREAST OF UP-TO-DATE
BANKING PRACTICE
We Have Installed The Latest Approved Type
Modern Banking Machine
National Central Control and Proof Machine
This is the only machine of this type in use in Alaska!

It's almost human! Its 20 adding-machines-in-one keeps a constant proof check on the records of each department automatically. We have made this most recent addition to our already modern equipment as a further step in keeping abreast of up-to-date banking practices and to better serve the banking public of Ketchikan.

THE FIRST, NATIONAL BANK
Ketchikan, Alaska
MEMBER FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION"
Collection:
Ketchikan Museums: Paulu T. Saari Collection, KM 2003.2.63.1929
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Hart Otterlei, First National Bank, 1954Hart Otterlei, First National Bank, 1954