Historic Business
Dime Trust and Safe Deposit Company
A surviving Shamokin postcard preserves the name and imposing downtown building of the Dime Trust and Safe Deposit Company.
A Bank Preserved on a Postcard
A historical postcard identifies the Dime Trust and Safe Deposit Company and shows the substantial building through which it presented itself to Shamokin.
Architecture as a Business Statement
The building’s formal facade and scale advertised permanence and security in the downtown streetscape.
What Is Known—and What Is Not
The postcard preserves the company name and building appearance. A fuller chronology of officers, dates, and later ownership still requires additional business records.