You recently reported on the upload to the Newman Numismatic Portal of a run of Comptroller of the Currency annual reports, courtesy of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. As it happens, a few weeks ago, someone inquired on the Society of Paper Money Collectors (SPMC) Facebook page about the availability of these same reports between the years 1980 and 2002; after 2003 they can be found on the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency government website.

I poked around on the correspondent's behalf, but didn't find anything that was accessible online. Hard copies exist of course in government document repositories, but that is much less convenient for researchers.

1863-1980 are already on NNP

Starting in 1981, the OCC's annual report was published in the OCC's Quarterly Journal. WashU does not have hardcopies for the period 1981-1997. The St. Louis Federal Reserve library confirmed they have the OCC Quarterly Journals for the period in question. I picked them up from the St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank library on Thursday, and they will be scanned shortly. In addition to appearing on Newman Portal, the scans will be shared with FRASER, their online library.

From 1998 forward the OCC Quarterly Journals are online at

https://www.occ.gov/publications/publications-by-type/other-publications-reports/index-quarterly-journal.html. We will pull these into NNP.

From 2003 and on the OCC annual report resumes and is at

https://www.occ.treas.gov/publications/publications-by-type/annual-reports/index-annual-reports.html. We will pull these into NNP.

A current research interest for me is national banks, and I found a document that may be of interest to others. "List of Active and Closed National Banks" It's from the National Archives and is digitized. Unfortunately, it doesn't appear that an option exists to download the entire document.

https://catalog.archives.gov/id/6117656. The document is several hundred pages. The scan is part of one page listing Arkansas banks . This work has lots of dates and other details for closed banks; unfortunately, charter dates are not included. The source appears to be the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency.

The expansion of the availability of primary resources on the internet such as the serials "Annual Report of the Comptroller of the Currency" from 1863 through 1980, and "Individual Statements of Condition of National Banks" from 1923 to 1940s provided so much low-hanging fruit, that I succumbed to the temptation to harvest and collate it, but the amount of data is so vast that several years will be required to do the work.