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Bank of North America.

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Item No: pdcc00704
Title: Bank of North America.
Historic Street Address: 307-309 Chestnut Street
Media Type: Scrapbooks
Source: Print and Picture Collection
Notes:

Halftone reproduction of photograph showing the facade of The Bank of North America, along with two vignetted sketches of the same site in 1782 and again in 1848. The Bank of North America was chartered in 1781, and was the nation's first commercial bank. The building on Chestnut Street was completed in 1848 after designs by John Notman.


Geocode Latitude: Geocode Longitude:-75.146486
Geocode Latitude:39.948700

Call Number: A917.481 P536 v.8
Creator Name: Notman, John, 1810-1865 - Architect
Castner, Samuel, Jr., 1843-1929 - Compiler