Interior view of the First National Bank of Joseph’s extant vault, 1990
An interior view of the First National Bank of Joseph’s extant vault, photographed in 1990. Originally, two bank vaults existed within the property but renovations in the 1940s removed the larger one, keeping only the smaller Safe Deposit Vault, measuring five by seven feet inside and eight feet tall. These vaults, built by the National Safe and Lock Company of Cleveland, Ohio, provided some of the highest security against robberies in the early twentieth century.
| Source: “Original Safe Deposit Vault.” National Register of Historic Places, November 29, 1990. National Park Service Digital Asset Management System. https://npgallery.nps.gov/NRHP/AssetDetail/99190dcb-f625-4e40-a853-0604377f11bf.