Series III. Banking, 1929-1957, inclusive
Colonial Bank & Bank of the United States | Miscellaneous, 1929-1930, inclusive
Scope and Contents
Includes letters documenting Sharman's appointment as assistant cashier of the Colonial Bank (corner of Columbus Avenue and 81st Street, Manhattan) in 1929, and the bank's merger with the Bank of the United States, which took place in April 1929. The condition, officers, and staff of the latter (including Sharman) are given in a pamphlet dated 29 May 1930.
An anomaly in this folder, perhaps kept by Sharman as a curiosity, is a draft for $100,000, dated 24 January 1871 and issued by the Bank of New York to Lees & Waller.
Empire Trust & Manufacturers Trust, La Guardia Airport | Miscellaneous, 1931, 1943-1949, inclusive
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence, William Sharman's business card, and a brochure describing the Empire Trust Company's branch at La Guardia Field, "The World's First Airport Bank." Manufacturers Trust Company assumed control of the branch on 24 September 1945.
Empire Trust, La Guardia Airport | Guest register, 1941-1949, inclusive
Empire Trust & Manufacturers Trust, La Guardia Airport | Photographs (8 prints), [circa 1941-1949], inclusive
Scope and Contents
Includes a photograph of Mayor Fiorello La Guardia and banker David Rockefeller (1915-2017) at the opening of the bank.
Manufacturers Trust, Featherbed Lane (Bronx) | Miscellaneous, 1949-1957, inclusive
Manufacturers Trust, Featherbed Lane (Bronx) | Photographs (2 prints), [1949], inclusive
Scope and Contents
Contains two photographs, one showing William Sharman at his desk, the other showing him posed with Marie Gagne, a 9-year-old polio survivor who, accompanied by her grandmother, Mrs. H. Cordes, was the first customer of Manufacturers Trust Company's newly opened Featherbed Lane branch in The Bronx on 18 June 1949. For newspaper reproductions of this image, with fuller accounts, see the clippings in folder 17.
Manufacturers Trust, Featherbed Lane (Bronx) | Photographs (3 prints), [1949], inclusive
Scope and Contents
Contains three publicity shots by Rudy Arnold Photos (545 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y.) of William Sharman, with a secretary, in his office of the Featherbed Lane (Bronx) branch of Manufacturers Trust Company. With original Rudy Arnold mailing envelope.