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Dawson, New Mexico Photographs
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Dawson, New Mexico Businesses, 1920's
Dawson Bank, 1921, Myers Collection, NMSU
The Bank of Dawson was a modern bank for its day. It offered: traveler’s checks, interest of 4% on savings accounts compounded semi annually, safety deposit boxes for one cent a day ($3.65/year), issued credit and offered loans, issued money orders, and transferred money anywhere in the world. Seventy percent of the bank activity was savings accounts. The bank boasted that it had few commercial accounts, it was a company town.
Dawson Hotel, 1920, Myers Collection, NMSU
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