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Germantown Bank, Philadelphia, Pa. [graphic].
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Creator
Brightbill, George M., collector.
Title
Germantown Bank, Philadelphia, Pa. [graphic].
Date
ca. 1909
Physical Description
1 photomechanical print (postcard): photolithograph, color; 9 x 15 cm.(3.5 x 5.5 in.)
Description
Depicts an oblique view of the Bank of Germantown in a converted colonial home, the Clarkson-Watson House, built 1745-1775 on Germantown Avenue. The bank occupied this building from 1825 to 1868, until it moved to a new lot built by J.G. Sidney at 5500-5506 Germantown Avenue.
Notes
Dwelling built circa 1745 for Matthew Clarkson, mayor of Philadelphia from 1792 to 1796. Thomas Jefferson and Edmund Randolph stayed here during the yellow fever epidemic of 1793. The Bank of Germantown occupied the property from 1825 to 1869, around the same time John Fanning Watson, author of Annals of Philadelphia, lived here.
Sheet number: 100A01.
Divided back. Post marked 1909.
Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Subject
National Bank of Germantown -- Buildings.
Banks -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Dwellings -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject
Germantown Avenue (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 5275-5277.
Genre
Photomechanical prints -- Color -- 1900-1910.
Postcards -- 1900-1910.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Brightbill postcards [Germantown - Buildings - 100]
Accession number
Brightbill 100
100-a01-a
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