Dollar Bank Image Collection
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The online collection includes a selection of images from the Dollar Bank corporate archives. Included are historical images of bank offices, advertising, and general bank activities focusing on the 1960s and 1970s.
What's in the entire collection?
The Dollar Bank corporate archives comprises of a nearly full record of the bank's activities from 1855 to present. The collection includes bound accounting ledgers, executive and Board of Trustees meeting minutes, photographic prints, marketing materials, and other ephemera.
About Dollar Bank and the Dollar Bank Heritage Center.
On July 19, 1855, Dollar Bank opened for business as The Pittsburgh Dollar Savings Institution. For as little as $1, anyone could open a savings account. From the beginning, Dollar Bank made no restrictions on who could open a savings account with us. Men, women, young, old, all races, all creeds, those born Americans and those who were new immigrants – all were welcome. Dollar Bank was at the forefront in recognizing the property rights of married women, with our 1855 charter acknowledging married women as the sole legal owners of the money in their savings accounts. As an independent mutual bank with no capital stock and no individual shareholders, Dollar Bank is proud to serve the needs of our communities every day. Our knowledgeable and caring employees continue this legacy of superior customer service to this day.
The Dollar Bank Heritage Center is located in downtown Pittsburgh, in the Bank’s historical Fourth Avenue Building, which opened in April 1871 and has been continuously owned and operated by Dollar Bank since that time. The Heritage Center contains displays with vintage banking machines, Dollar Bank advertising through the decades, oil portraits and photographs of the bank’s officers and Trustees, and hand-written ledgers featuring original signatures of some of the Bank’s early depositors. The Center also provides a glimpse into some of the many ways Dollar Bank has invested in and contributed to the local communities over the years. A selection from the Heritage Center displays is available online.