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🏦 1916 BANK OF ARKANSAS ANTIQUE HANDWRITTEN LEDGER — MASSIVE 18” × 26”
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1916 Bank of Arkansas Antique Ledger Book 18x26 Handwritten Banking Records
📜 Item Description
Here is a genuine piece of early 20th-century banking history—a large-format 1916 Bank of Arkansas ledger measuring approximately 18” × 26”.
This impressive antique ledger contains original handwritten financial entries, names, balances, checks, deposits and other period banking/accounting notations across oversized ruled ledger pages. The visible entries date to 1916, placing this book more than a century into Arkansas banking and commercial history.
The sheer size makes this especially striking. At approximately 18” × 26”, this isn’t a little bookkeeping journal—it is an enormous working ledger designed for serious record keeping.
The book retains its wonderfully aged original appearance, including a tan textured exterior with burgundy/maroon binding and corner accents, decorative gold-colored line detailing, marbled endpapers and heavy oversized ledger sheets.
⭐ Highlights
* Date: 1916
* Institution: Bank of Arkansas
* Type: Antique bank/accounting ledger
* Approximate Size: 18” × 26”
* Large oversized format
* Original handwritten entries
* Period names and financial records
* Columns for balances, checks and deposits
* Original antique ledger paper
* Marbled interior endpapers
* Burgundy/maroon binding accents
* Decorative exterior detailing
* Authentic age, wear and patina
* Excellent display piece for banking, financial or Arkansas history collections
The individual handwritten names and transactions make this especially fascinating. Instead of merely representing banking history, this ledger contains the actual everyday records left behind by people conducting business more than a century ago.
📚 Great For
Banking memorabilia collectors, Arkansas history collections, financial-history displays, accountants and bankers, genealogical researchers, museums, historical societies, antique office displays, period movie/theater props, libraries, archives, ephemera collectors and collectors of unusual oversized antique books.
🔎 Condition
Antique condition with substantial age-related wear.
This ledger is approximately 110 years old and shows the wear expected from an oversized working record book that was actually used.
Visible condition characteristics include staining, discoloration, fading, surface wear, scratches and marks to the covers; edge and corner wear; deterioration and losses around portions of the binding; aged and toned paper; stains, spotting, handling wear, creasing and other imperfections throughout.
Some page edges and binding areas show significant age-related deterioration. The handwritten entries vary in darkness and legibility.
Please examine all photographs carefully. Photos are an important part of the condition description.
The wear is part of the history here—this was a working ledger, not a decorative reproduction.
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😄 Tugmon Valley Humor
Before online banking, mobile apps and passwords you forget five minutes after creating them, there was THIS MONSTER.
At 18” × 26”, apparently the Bank of Arkansas believed that if you were going to keep financial records, you might as well do it on something roughly the size of a kitchen table.
No Wi-Fi.
No cloud backup.
No Excel.
Just paper, ink, handwriting and somebody praying the columns balanced before quitting time.
And somehow, 110 years later, the ledger is still here.
Your banking app probably won’t be. 😂
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