Details
Contributor Furness & Hewitt, architect.
Title Guarantee Trust Co., Philadelphia. [graphic]
Publisher [Philadelphia]
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1880
Date [ca. 1880]
Physical Description 1 photographic print: albumen on stereograph mount; 9 x 17 cm. (3.25 x 6.75 in.)
Description Exterior view of building at 316-320 Chestnut Street, built 1873-5, designed by Furness & Hewitt.
Notes Title inscribed in negative.
Yellow mount with rounded corners.
Printed in red on mount: Stereoscopic views.
Gift of Robert M. Vogel.
Reproduced in The Print and Photograph Department of the Library Company of Philadelphia's Center City Philadelphia in the 19th century (Portsmouth, N.H.: Arcadia Publishing, 2006), p. 95.
Arcadia caption text: The Guarantee Trust and Safe Deposit Company, established in 1872, provided safe storage for securities, currency, jewelry, silver plate, and other valuables. Safe depositories became more common during the Civil War when the threat to personal possessions in battleground states was very real, and they continued to grow in number and popularity in the years after the war. Frank Furness, the architect of this eclectic brick structure located on the 300 block of Chestnut Street, was commissioned to create plans for almost a dozen financial and trust company buildings in Philadelphia. His idiosyncratic designs provided his clients with visually distinctive structures and also tended to generate a great deal of publicity.
Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Subject Guarantee Trust and Safe Deposit Company.
Trust companies -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Safe-deposit companies -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Chestnut Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 300 block -- South side.
Genre Albumen prints -- 1870-1880.
Stereographs -- 1870-1880.
Associated name Furness & Hewitt, architect.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereo - unidentified - banks [P.9047.135]
Accession number P.9047.135