Photo Record
Images
Metadata
Title |
Mr. and Mrs. A.P. Giannini, c. 1895-1905 |
Object Name |
Print, Photographic |
Description |
Mr. and Mrs. A.P. Giannini, c. 1895-1905. Black-and-white photograph depicts Amadeo Giannini, seated in an ornate chair and wearing a dark formal suit. His dark hair is slicked back and he has a mustache. To the left, slightly behind a small desk and partially cut off by the photograph's edge, is his wife Clorinda, a young dark-haired woman in a formal dress. |
Date |
c. 1895-1905 |
Photographer |
Unknown |
Catalog Number |
1985.017.067 |
Collection |
Archival Collection |
Place |
San Mateo County |
Provenance |
A large collection of photographs dealing with Italian Americans in San Mateo County. Possibly once displayed in donor's Daly City restaurant. |
Notes |
Amadeo Pietro "A.P." Giannini was born in 1870 in San Jose to Italian immigrant parents. He married Clorinda Cuneo in 1892. After briefly working in his father's produce business, he started the Bank of Italy in San Francisco in 1904. "The bank was housed in a converted saloon as an institution for the "little fellow". It was a new bank for the hardworking immigrants other banks would not serve. He offered those ignored customers savings accounts and loans, judging them not by their wealth, but by their character." He became extremely successful, merging with the Los Angeles-based Bank of America in the 1920s, and helped finance Walt Disney and the motion picture industry, Golden Gate Bridge, and various other projects. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amadeo_Giannini 11/02/2018] |
People |
Giannini, A. P. (Amadeo Pietro) |
Search Terms |
Bank of America Bank of Italy Giannini, Amadeo Pietro (A. P.) Immigrants Italian Americans Italians Spadarella, Frank |
Subjects |
Bankers Immigrants Italian Americans Portrait photographs |
Credit line |
Courtesy of Frank Spadarella |