"Citizens' & Southern Banking Company: Philadelphia's Progressive Financial Institution"

"Citizens' & Southern Banking Company: Philadelphia's Progressive Financial Institution"

The Citizens' & Southern Banking Company--Employees: Major R. R. Wright (President), R. R. Wright, Jr. (Editor Christian Recorder), J. Albert Johnson (Bishop A. M. E. Church), Mrs. Carrie Steele McClain (Attendance Officer and Welfare Worker), J. C. Neely (Lagrange, GA), E. Washington Rhodes (Editor), Edward B. Maynard (Businessman of Plainfield, N.J.), Thomas M. Thomas (Businessman), W. S. Scarborough (Former President, Wilberforce University), J. H. Irvin (Undertaker)

The Philadelphia Tribune's photo supplement features Citizens' & Southern Banking Company, claiming it as  the most "Progressive Financial Institution" and the "Finest Bank Building of the Race in the North." The pictorial features the president of the bank and the other affiliated employees that the bank holds on staff.

Charles L. Blockson Afro-American Collection, Temple University Libraries

WCU, HIS 601/HON 452 Great Migration and Digital Storytelling, Fall 2014

November 29, 1924

Shila Scott, Elizabeth Dellaquila

Courtesy of Temple University Libraries

JPG

Still Image