Details
Creator Hand, Alfred, photographer.
Contributor Blodget, Samuel, 1757-1814, architect.
Title Girard Bank. [graphic].
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1920
Date ca. 1920
Physical Description 1 negative: glass; 11 x 8 cm. (4 x 3.25 in.)
Description View looking northwest from Dock Street showing the bank originally built 1795-1797 after the designs of Samuel Blodgett. The bank, operated by Stephen Girard as Girard's Bank from 1812-1831, was chartered by the state in 1832 as Girard National Bank. View includes adjacent building tenanted by E. Roger, wood engraver, and the Saturday Evening Post newspaper office (132 South Third Street); the top floors of the Mariner & Merchant Building (300 Chestnut Street) and two commercial buildings on the north side of Dock Street near Third (129 South Third Street and 241 Dock Street).
Notes Inscribed in negative: 3295.
Title from negative sleeve.
Modern reference print available.
Subject Girard National Bank of Philadelphia.
Bank of the United States (1791-1811)
Saturday evening post.
Banks -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Commercial streets -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Newspaper publishing -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Dock Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 241.
Third Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- South -- 100 block.
Third Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- South -- 129.
Genre Glass plate negatives -- 1910-1920.
Associated name Blodget, Samuel, 1757-1814, architect.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| 4x5 Glass Negatives - Hand [P.9259.89]
Accession number P.9259.89