This collection contains printed materials and other items formerly belonging to Houston banker Charles Whiteley Hamilton, former senior vice president and trust officer of the National Bank of Commerce who also served as president of the American Bankers Association's trust division and Houston National Bank's chairman of the board.

Included are addresses, a photographic portrait, a biographical clipping from the Houston Chronicle, pins from the American Bankers Association, and a thesis on trusts and community property that Hamilton wrote for ABA's Graduate School of Banking at Rutgers University.