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[Girard's Bank, Third Street at Dock Street, Philadelphia] [graphic] / Bartlett & Smith, photographers.
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Creator
Bartlett & Smith, photographer.
Contributor
McAllister, John A. 1822-1896, collector.
Blodget, Samuel, 1757-1814, architect.
Title
[Girard's Bank, Third Street at Dock Street, Philadelphia] [graphic] / Bartlett & Smith, photographers.
Publisher
[Philadelphia: Bartlett & Smith]
Publisher
PA. Philadelphia. 1869
Date
[ca. 1869]
Physical Description
1 photographic print: albumen on stereograph mount; 9 x 17 cm. (3.25 x 6.75 in.)
Description
View of the Girard's Bank at 116-120 S. 3rd Street. Designed by amateur architect Samuel Blodget as the First Bank of the United States, built 1795-97, and sold to Stephen Girard in 1812. View shows the west side of Third Street at Dock looking north, and includes the offices of the National Travellers Insurance Company.
Notes
Photographer's imprint stamped on recto.
Yellow mount with square corners.
Manuscript note on mount: Girard Bank Philada.
Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook.
Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Subject
Bank of the United States (1791-1811)
Girard's Bank.
Commercial streets -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Banks -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject
Third Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- South -- 116-120.
Third Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- South -- 100 block -- West side.
Genre
Albumen prints -- 1860-1870.
Stereographs -- 1860-1870.
Associated name
Blodget, Samuel, 1757-1814, architect.
Provenance
McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereo - Bartlett & Smith - banks [(8)1322.F.11c]
Accession number
(8)1322.F.11c
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Bartlett & Smith Stereograph Collection
Printed and Graphic Ephemera
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