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Philadelphia National Bank in Pottstown scrapbooks
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Held at: Pottstown Historical Society [Contact Us]568 High Street, Pottstown, PA, 19464
This is a finding aid. It is a description of archival material held at the Pottstown Historical Society. Unless otherwise noted, the materials described below are physically available in their reading room, and not digitally available through the web.
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The Citizens' National Bank of Pottstown, Pennsylvania was organized in 1892. In 1928, it changed its name to The Citizens National Bank and Trust Company of Pottstown. Later it became part of Philadelphia National Bank. Philadelphia National Bank merged with National Central Financial in 1983 to become CoreStates Financial Corporation.
This collection consists of 11 scrapbooks dating from 1892 to 1982 that relate to the Philadelphia National Bank branch in Pottstown, first organized as the Citizens' National Bank of Pottstown. Most of the scrapbooks consist only of clippings: published financial condition reports, advertisements, and a few news items. One volume from the mid-20th century has photographs as well.
Summary descriptive information on this collection was compiled in 2011-2012 as part of a pilot project conducted by the Historical Society of Pennsylvania to make better known and more accessible the largely hidden collections of small, primarily volunteer run repositories in the Philadelphia area. The Hidden Collections Initiative for Pennsylvania Small Archival Repositories (HCI-PSAR) was funded by a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
This is a preliminary finding aid. No physical processing, rehousing, reorganizing, or folder listing was accomplished during the HCI-PSAR project.
In some cases, more detailed inventories or finding aids may be available on-site at the repository where this collection is held; please contact Pottstown Historical Society directly for more information.
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- Pottstown Historical Society
- Finding Aid Author
- Finding aid prepared by Celia Caust-Ellenbogen and Michael Gubicza through the Historical Society of Pennsylvania's Hidden Collections Initiative for Pennsylvania Small Archival Repositories
- Sponsor
- This preliminary finding aid was created as part of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania's Hidden Collections Initiative for Pennsylvania Small Archival Repositories. The HCI-PSAR project was made possible by a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
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