Seaway National Bank

CTL-E-0191 · Business · bank · 1960s–2010s

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Black-owned South Side bank serving Chatham and the South Side

The record

Also known as: Seaway Bank

Relationships

Chatham — located in
Seaway National Bank is a Black-owned South Side bank serving Chatham and the surrounding South Side.

Sources

Documented in Black banking histories

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Black enterprise — the shops, banks, and trades that built it. Photographs from the CultureTechLens research record — rights-cleared, credited, and cited like everything else here.

Negro barber shop. Southside of Chicago, Illinois, Chicago, 1941Photo: Lee, Russell, 1903-1986, FSA-OWI, Public Domain, via Library of Congress

Negro grocery store, Black Belt, Chicago, Illinois, Chicago, 1941Photo: Rosskam, Edwin, 1903-1985, FSA-OWI, Public Domain, via Library of Congress

Only Negro store of its kind in the U.S., at 2933 State St., Chicago, Ill, Chicago, 1941Photo: Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963, collector, FSA-OWI, Public Domain, via Library of Congress

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