© Copyright 2020 - The Library Company of Philadelphia, 1314 Locust Street, Philadelphia, PA 19107. TEL (215) 546-3181 FAX (215) 546-5167
For inquiries, please contact our IT Department
- Title
- Third Street, below Chestnut
- Description
- View of Third Street, between Chestnut and Walnut Streets, west side, looking south. Shows the offices of several newspaper publishers (Public Ledger, Evening Telegraph, and Sunday Transcript) and printers (Haddock & Son, printers and lithographers, and Torr card & job printers); and First Bank of the United States (i.e. Girard Bank)., Title, photographer's imprint and series number from accompanying printed label., Yellow mount with square corners., Orginally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Bartlett & French was a partnership between Philadelphia photographers George O. Bartlett and William French ca. 1867-1869.
- Creator
- Bartlett & French, photographer
- Date
- [ca. 1868]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Bartlett & French - streets [(8)1322.F.19c]
- Title
- Girard Bank
- 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., 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.
- Creator
- Simons, M. P. (Montgomery P.), photographer
- Date
- ca. 1870
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Simons - Banks [(8)1322.F.11d]
- Title
- Girard Bank
- 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., 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.
- Creator
- Simons, M. P. (Montgomery P.), photographer
- Date
- ca. 1870
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Simons - Banks [(8)1322.F.11d]
- Title
- [Girard's Bank, Third Street at Dock Street, Philadelphia]
- Description
- View of the Girard's Bank at 116-120 S. 3rd Street. Designed by amateur architect Samuel Blodget as the First Bank of the United States, built 1795-97, and sold to Stephen Girard in 1812. View shows the west side of Third Street at Dock looking north, and includes the offices of the National Travellers Insurance Company., Photographer's imprint stamped on recto., Yellow mount with square corners., Manuscript note on mount: Girard Bank Philada., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
- Creator
- Bartlett & Smith, photographer
- Date
- [ca. 1869]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Bartlett & Smith - banks [(8)1322.F.11c]