Bankers Trust Company: too small to save?

One of the main tasks Dana and I have been working on thus far for the Greenfield digital editing project- part of a larger effort funded by the Albert M. Greenfield Foundation- is to try to piece together the history of Bankers Trust Company, the banking institution on which our project is focused. This can [...]

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A Bank’s Failure

Is it ever good news if a business associate sends you a telegram at 4 a.m.? This one, part of the Albert M. Greenfield papers (collection 1959), announced an emergency meeting of the board of directors for Bankers Trust Company, which within hours became the first large Philadelphia bank to fail during the Great Depression. [...]

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How to make life easier(?) for the Victorian tailor

While going through some pamphlets for an upcoming question of the week on the Philadelphia Bourse, I came across this one: Having something of a background in garment construction, this immediately caught my eye and was worth another look.  According to the manufacturer, this particular device “won unstinted praise of cutters in all parts of [...]

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Highlights of Victorian design: HSP’s trade card collection

As you’ve probably guessed from my blog posts, planning for and processing collections from HSP’s adopt-a-collection program take up a good bit of my time here.  I just finished processing a lovely small collection of records from the Philadelphia County and Lancaster County militias [Am .23]  (and yes, they were in fact lovely and oh [...]

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