Some cool register business images:
National Farmers' Bank (1908)
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NRHP #71000441
101 N. Cedar Avenue
Owatonna, Minnesota
Architect: Louis Sullivan
Banker Carl Bennett wanted more than a prominent new building to house his family's business. He wanted a work of art. Bennett's search for an architect led him in 1906 to Chicago architect Louis Sullivan, one of the country's most inventive designers. Together their brilliant collaboration of patron and architect produced what many consider the finest small-town bank in America. It was considered to be the first of Sullivan's "jewel boxes". The building is bathed in a symphony of color, as Sullivan described it. Green and brown terra cotta panels and blue and gold glass mosaic bands contrast with the reddish brick walls and the red sandstone base that anchors the bank to its site, giving depositors a sense of security. Two arched stained glass windows designed by Louis J. Millet are mirrored on the interior by murals of dairy and harvest scenes by Oskar Gross. The lavish organic decorative elements, including four 18-foot-tall cast iron electroliers and teller window grilles, were designed by chief draftsman George Grant Elmslie and cast by Winslow Brothers Company (owned by William Winslow, for whom Frank Lloyd Wright designed an iconic house). Today this National Historic Landmark is a Wells Fargo Bank.
Chicago Bee Building (1929)
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NRHP #86001090
3647-55 S. State Street
Chicago, IL
Architect: Z. Erol Smith
From Chicago Landmarks Website: "This Art Deco-style building was constructed as the headquarters for the Chicago Bee newspaper, which was founded by noted African-American entrepreneur Anthony Overton. It originally featured upper-floor apartments and, during the 1930's, housed the offices of the Douglass National Bank and the Overton Hygienic Company, a nationally known cosmetics firm. The newspaper went out of business in the 1940s, although Overton Hygienic continued until the early 1980s. In the mid-1990's, the building was adapted for reuse as a branch of the Chicago Public Library. It is one of nine structures in the Black Metropolis-Bronzeville Historic District."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Bee_Building
