Emigrant Industrial Savings Bank Bldg., 51 Chambers St. – Antique Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
Description
This rare historic photograph captures Emigrant Industrial Savings Bank Bldg., 51 Chambers St. in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Emigrant Industrial Savings Bank Bldg., 51 Chambers St.
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Chambers Street, in Lower Manhattan near City Hall Park, was a financial and civic corridor, and this photograph documents the Emigrant Industrial Savings Bank's building at No. 51 when the picture was taken around 1912. The bank was founded in 1850 to serve immigrant workers, many of them Irish, who had little access to mainstream banking, so its headquarters stood for a particular kind of thrift and community trust. The print was made by Irving Underhill, a New York photographer whose copyright registration is noted on the record, and it captures how a commercial office building of the period presented itself on a busy downtown street.
| Created / published | c1912. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Photographic prints 1910-1920. |
| Notes | JA44412 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Irving Underhill, New York. No. C 8492. |
| Subjects | Office buildings--New York (State)--New York--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,802 × 4,691 px · prints to 13 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-220050 |
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