Advertisement showing the very active warehouse of the safe deposit company at Front and Lombard streets. Hundreds of windows and several bays adorn the building in front of which several horse-drawn wagons, drays, and carts deliver and depart with crates, barrels, and bundles. Also shows laborers transporting by hand, handcart, and horse-drawn cart goods into a few of the bays; a man on horseback conversing with a man carrying a crate on his shoulder; and piles of crates and barrels lining the sidewalk in front and beside the warehouse. Also contains the names of the officers and directors of the company, including Thomas L. Jewett, president., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 564, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bb 38 P 415
Date
[ca. 1875]
Location
Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bb 38 P 415
Exterior view of building at 316-320 Chestnut Street, built 1873-5, designed by Furness & Hewitt., 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.
Date
[ca. 1880]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unidentified - banks [P.9047.135]
Advertisement showing an exterior view of the building built 1873-5 after the designs of Furness & Hewitt. Several pedestrians stroll on the sidewalk, including a man with a cane, and patrons enter the safe deposit company. In the right of the image, shows the gates open to the alley leading to Carpenter's Hall, visible in the background. Also contains the names of six officers of the bank, including President Thomas Cochran, printed below the title. The Guarantee Trust and Safe Deposit Company, established in 1872, provided safe storage for securities, currency, jewelry, silver plate, and other valuables., Manuscript note on recto: Complt. of John C. Browne. Nov. 19, 1886., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 102, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 3 G 914, Burk & McFetridge operated from 304 and later 306-308 Chestnut Street.
Exterior view of the Trust building built 1873-4. Designed by Philadelphia architect James Windrim. Includes partial view of the Philadelphia National Bank at 419-423 Chestnut., Inscribed in negative: Phila. Trust Co., Buff mount with rounded corners., Gift of Robert M. Vogel., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator
Hemple, A. H., photographer
Date
[1876]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Hemple - business [P.9047.58]
