The intersection of Court and Tennessee Streets c.1900

Sons of Robert L. Bliss c.1890, from left to right, Arthur Weir Bliss, Revered John Collins Bliss, and Robert Lewis Bliss, Jr.

News article describing the new building, January 14, 1893

A lithograph of East Tennessee Street, showing the first Bliss building on the corner

Court Street looking south and the early Bliss building

A sketch of the First National Bank at this location in 1889

Looking east on Tennessee Street, c.1900

Reproduction of an advertisement from a Florence newspaper, February 23, 1889

Prior to the FDIC, it was common for banks to publish annual statements in local newspapers to garner public trust

Intersection of Court and Tennessee Streets, c.1915

Notice the cotton exchange on the far left

The intersection of Court and Tennessee Streets, c.1920s