Alamo National Bank Statement Fragments — Found in the Wall

Torn scraps of a Alamo National Bank “statement of condition” dated April 20, 1953, laid out on OSB. The Resources column still reads clearly: Cash … $20,564,001.11 — the number that launched a thousand double-takes on Instagram — alongside U.S. government securities, loans, and municipal bonds. A footer strip shows MEMBER FEDERAL DEPOSIT … CORPORATION. The paper is holed and ragged, as if it had been stuffed in a cavity and forgotten until a wall opened. The joke in the caption is the puzzle of that cash figure; the serious note is that San Antonio’s Alamo National was a major correspondent bank in the era — this is a snapshot of mid-century balance-sheet typography, not the roastery’s books.

Instagram 2017-06-20: Bank statement stuffed in wall. Cash … $20,564,001.11 #puzzle