144 THE FREEDMEN’S SAVINGS BANK 
3. SPECIMENS OF THE ADVERTISING 
LITERATURE 
1. (BANK BOOK, OUTSIDE COVER, 
EDITION OF 1867) 
NATIONAL SAVINGS BANK 
FREEDMEN’S 
SAVINGS AND TRUST COMPANY, 
Chartered by Congress 
PRINCIPAL OFFICE, 
CORNER 19th STREET AND PENNSYLVANIA 
AVENUE, WASHINGTON,.D. C. 
WASHINGTON BRANCH OFFICE, 
AT THE SAME PLACE, 
Where deposits will be received every business day from 
9 aM. to 3 P.M. 
Branches also in New York, Baltimore, and all the 
Principal Cities of the South and Southwest 
“Tall oaks from little acorns grow.” 
“DESPISE NOT THE DAY OF SMALL THINGS.” 
2. (BookLET, 1869, p. 12) 
Temperance Man.—A printer once determined that 
every time his fellow-workmen went out to drink beer 
during the working hours he would put in the bank the 
exact amount which he would have spent if he had gone 
out to drink. He kept to this resolution for five years. He 
then examined his bank account, and found that he had 
on deposit $521.86. In the five years he had not lost a day 
from ill health. Three out of five of his fellow-workmen 
had in the meantime become drunkards, were worthless