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NOS I TO 3 REMAIN AT THE BANK, WHILE THE BILLS ARE SENT WITH THE LAST THREE DOCUMENTS TO THE AGENCY CONCERNED. IN THIS MANNER THE DOCUMENTS REQUIRED BY THE AGENCIES ARE ENTIRELY DRAWN UP AT THE HEAD OFFICE. THIS PRECLUDES THE RISK OF DISCREPANCIES BETWEEN THE BOOK-KEEPING OF THE HEAD BANK AND THAT OF ITS AGENCIES.
The picture shows a section of the Bank's bills' service. In the background the typist is seen preparing the memoranda and in the foreground a clerk stands in front of a calculating machine classifyng the copies to be placed in the machine. Another clerk appears and gathers together the typed memoranda, he takes them over to a third clerk to be classified and displays one of the printed memoranda opened out. The six pages of the document are shown in turn, enlarged, on the screen.
The clerk detaches the note while one of the typists demonstrates how one of these documents is folded and placed in the machine. Meanwhile the clerk who classifies the various copies and the typists continue their work, while it is shown how, after being filled in, these papers are opened out and shaken to get rid of the carbon papers. The carbon sheets are placed in position not by the clerks, but by porters, messengers, or messenger girls.
Division and classification of the several parts of the Documents to be duplicated
The typist goes over with the classified copies to the clerk who attends to further operations.
The copies are gathered together The balance-sheet of the section is completed.
The typist comes up with the copies classified and places them beside one of the clerks. The latter starts to check them on a counting machine ; thus completing the balancing of the section. A clerk walks up, takes the register of the bills section and displays it to the public. The register is then shewn enlarged. The provisional balance-sheet prepared by the same machine is also shown. This also is shown enlarged. The clerk goes out and the following caption is shewn on the screen :
The current accounts are made out on cards (by the help of copies).
A cashier is shown noting the several operations on account of the customers by means of a typewriter specially adapted for this work.
A clerk brings in the classified copies. The cashier types out the current account and at the same time a duplicate, after which the clerk returns, takes the two documents and shows them to the public.
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