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Datasets

Bank Runs

Comprehensive database of historical bank distress episodes in the United States, including runs, suspensions, and closures with linked newspaper articles.

Historical OCC Call Reports

Bank-level balance sheets for all national banks, digitized from the Annual Report of the Comptroller of the Currency (1863–1941). Includes over 370,000 bank-year observations.

Bank Census

Historical census data on U.S. banking institutions.

Internal / Coming Soon

Historical FRS Call Reports

Bank-level balance sheets for all state and national FRS member banks, digitized from FRASER (1916-1935). Includes over 67,000 detailed call reports.

Internal / Coming Soon

Historical NIC

Historical data on all major events involving national banks for 1863-1940 (chartering, merger, voluntary liquidations, receiverships, etc.)

Internal / Coming Soon

Modern NIC

Contemporary National Information Center (NIC) data on all major events involving commercial banks.

Internal / Coming Soon

Rand McNally Bankers Directory

Comprehensive list of national, state, and private U.S. banks, including management, correspondents, and core balance sheet items (1879-1940; biannual). Includes over 1.8 million records.

Internal / Coming Soon

Tools

Python packages developed as part of this project:

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locro

High-quality local OCR

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yachay

Structured data extraction

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banknorm

Historical US bank and city normalization

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Research

The datasets above were compiled as part of the following research papers: