Details
Contributor Watson, John Frampton, printer.
McAllister, John A. 1822-1896, collector.
Title American Life Insurance and Trust Co., Office Walnut Street south east corner of Fourth, Philadelphia. [graphic].
Publisher Philadelphia, J.F. Watson's Lith. S.E. cor. 4th & Walnut
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1860
Date [1860]
Physical Description 1 print: chromolithograph; image 9 x 6.5 cm. (3.5 x 2.5 in.), overall 16 x 9 cm. (6.25 x 3.25 in.)
Description Exterior view showing the company's central office building, known as the American Building. A couple exits the building while a gentleman walks past. Incorporated in 1850, the company was formed in part to further the cause of temperance by offering considerable discounts to signers of the total abstinence pledge. Company occupied this building from 1854 to 1888.
Notes Published in I.L. Vansant ed. The royal road to wealth (Philadelphia: Published by Samuel Loag, 1869?), opp. pg. 31 without attribution. (LCP Am 1870 Van (18316.O))
Date from manuscript note on recto: June 15.60.
Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook.
Philadelphia on Stone
POS 18
Subject American Life Insurance and Trust Company.
Insurance companies -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Temperance -- United States.
Geographic subject Walnut Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- southeast corner of Fourth Street.
Genre Chromolithographs -- 1850-1860.
Provenance McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| BW - Business [(7)1322.F.445e]
Accession number (7)1322.F.445e