| Creator |
Simons, M. P. (Montgomery P.) photographer. |
| Contributor |
McAllister, John A. 1822-1896, collector. |
|
Blodget, Samuel, 1757-1814, architect. |
| Title |
Girard Bank [graphic] / M.P. Simons., 1320 Chestnut St. Philadelphia. Landscape and portrait photographer. |
| Publisher |
Philadelphia |
| Publisher |
PA. Philadelphia. 1870 |
| Date |
ca. 1870 |
| Physical Description |
1 photographic print: albumen on stereograph mount; 9 x 18 cm.(3.5 x 7 in.) |
| Description |
View looking northeast from Dock Street showing Girard National Bank, formerly the First Bank of the United States (built
1795-1797, Samuel Blodgett, architect), at 116-120 South Third Street. The bank, operated by Stephen Girard as Girard's Bank
from 1812-1831, was chartered by the state in 1832 as the Girard National Bank. Includes adjacent building (114 South Third)
tenanted by practical lithographer Theodore Leonhardt and The City Item newspaper office. Signage for Goodyear's Rubber Warehouse
adorns the building. Also shows slabs of stone laying on the sidewalk beside a telegraph pole near the bank; a horse-drawn
milk delivery wagon stopped across the street; and a group of men sitting on the steps of the bank.
|
| Notes |
Title printed on mount. |
|
Photographer's imprint printed on mount. |
|
Purple mount with rounded corners. |
|
Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited. |
|
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 |
Leonhardt, Theo. (Theodore), 1818-1877, |
|
Girard National Bank of Philadelphia. |
|
Girard's Bank. |
|
Bank of the United States (1791-1811) |
|
Banks -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. |
|
Commercial streets -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. |
|
Lithographers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. |
|
Newspaper industry -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. |
| Geographic subject |
Third Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- South -- 100 block -- West side. |
| Genre |
Stereographs -- 1860-1870. |
|
Albumen prints -- 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 - Simons - Banks [(8)1322.F.11d] |
| Accession number |
(8)1322.F.11d |
