American Bank Suspensions Data from When They Started Collecting It

Bank Suspensions, 1864-1970
The figures go year by year across the chart - for example, first line,
1860, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69
Second line (if any) is rate per 10,000 concerns in business

	y0	y1	y2	y3	y4	y5	y6	y7	y8	y9
1860s	gap	gap	gap	gap	2	6	7	8	14	7
1870s	3	10	19	41	57	28	59	90	140	37
1880s	18	11	22	33	63	46	20	25	33	18
1890s	37	62	83	496	89	124	155	145	67	36
1900s	36	69	54	52	128	80	53	91	155	79
1910s	63	87	80	105	151	152	52	49	47	63
1920s	168	505	367	646	775	618	976	669	499	659
1930s	1352	2294	1456	4004	gap	gap	gap	gap	gap	gap
1934-40	448
1941-46	49
1947-50	23
1951-55	23
1956-60	20
1950s	gap	gap	gap	gap	gap	gap	gap	gap	gap	3
1960s	2	9	3	2	8	9	8	4	3	9
1970s	7	gap	gap	gap	gap	gap	gap	gap	gap	gap
1980s	gap	gap	gap	gap	gap	gap	gap	gap	gap	gap
1990s	gap	gap	gap	gap	gap	gap	gap	gap	gap	gap

Source - various years of the Statistical Abstract of the United States.

Notice how low it goes in the 1940s when the spirit of cooperation is high.