Pharr
The First National Bank of Pharr
Pharr is the county
seat of Hidalgo County, 56 miles west of Brownsville via IH 69
north to Harlingen, then IH 2 west.
[Cook, Frank Lauderdale. [Scrapbook Page: Pharr,
Texas Scenes],photograph, 1916/1917; (texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth575358/m1/1/:accessed
November 20, 2018), University of North Texas Libraries,
The Portal to Texas History, texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Museum
of South Texas History.]
Another view
The building today.
The First National Bank of Pharr
was chartered March 21, 1912, and liquidated November 12, 1931.
The First National Bank of Pharr
printed 1902 Date Backs, Plain Backs and 1929 Type 1's.
The census records forty-nine notes:
one 1902 Date Back, fifteen Plain Backs, thirty-three 1929 Type
1's.
One 1902 $20 Plain Back is in the Philpott-Moody Collection.
This 1902 Plain Back sold in January,
2015, for $881.
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