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The Science History Institute is an institution that preserves and promotes understanding of the history of science. Located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, it includes a library, museum, archive, rese
The Science History Institute in Philadelphia in October 2019
Chemical Heritage Foundation building
"Old Faithful" bakelite cooker model, in museum
Exhibition gallery of the Science History Institute
First National Bank was a bank in Philadelphia. Chartered in 1863, it was the first national bank created under the banking reforms of the Civil War that began to define the modern U.S. banking system
Science History Institute
…of chemical history. By 1994, the organization was searching for a permanent home for the Beckman Center and Othmer Library. One candidate was the First National Bank building at 315 Chestnut Street, an 1866 masonry-and-brick structure with a two-story Palazzo facade. The institution bought the bank building and…
The First National Bank Building at 315 Chestnut Street, now part of the Science History Institute
Original interior of First National Bank, ca. 1911, by William H. Rau