"Bank Furniture 36B"

Description

Photo album titled: "Bank Furniture 36B." Title is hand printed on paper label applied over an earlier handprinted title on front cover; title and volume number are hand printed in black on spine. Album has a beige fabric covering and 48 dark gray pages, all of which are now loose. Four of the pages are blank. Album contains 45 mounted black-and-white photographs. Photographs are of a variety of furnishings for banks including chairs, desks, tables, racks, and stools manufactured by A. H. Davenport Co., Irving and Casson, and their successor, Irving and Casson - A. H. Davenport Co. Also included are: two interior photographs of a meeting room at Employers' Liability Assurance Corp. taken by Paul J. Weber of Dorchester Center, MA; one interior photograph of a room at the Strauss Dormitory at Harvard College; and an interior photograph of a room of the Jeremiah Lee Mansion (Marblehead, MA) by Frank Cousins. The order number and year are often shown on a display in the photographs. Customer names are also handwritten on some album pages. Named customers are: Employers' Liability Assurance Corp. (Boston, MA); First National Bank (Boston, MA); National Park Bank (New York, NY); Newton Trust Company (Waban, MA); Security Insurance Company (Boston, MA); and State Street Trust (Boston, MA); and Worcester North Saving Institution (Fitchburg, MA). Digital images of a selection of photographs from the album are attached to this record.