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Deaf & dumb asylum, n.w. corner Broad & Pine Street, Philadelphia [graphic].
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James McClees Philadelphia Photograph Collection
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Creator
M'Clees, Jas. E. (James E.) photographer.
Contributor
Haviland, John, 1792-1852, architect.
Title
Deaf & dumb asylum, n.w. corner Broad & Pine Street, Philadelphia [graphic].
Publisher
PA. Philadelphia. 1858
Date
June 1858
Physical Description
1 photographic print: albumen; 27 x 34 cm.(10.75 x 13.5 in.)
Description
View looking northwest showing the building constructed 1824-26 after the designs of John Haviland at 320 South Broad Street. View includes street railroad tracks, street lamps, and adjacent residences. The school, incorporated in 1821, provided instruction in trades and manufactures to deaf and mute persons.
Notes
Title and date from manuscript note on verso.
Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Reproduced in The Print and Photograph Department of the Library Company of Philadelphia's Center City Philadelphia in the 19th century (Portsmouth, N.H.: Arcadia Publishing, 2006), p. 107.
Arcadia caption text: This 1858 view of Broad Street looking northwest from Pine Street depicts the thoroughfare as more structures were springing up near the once rural area. The massive Greek Revival building, familiar today as the University of the Arts’ Dorrance Hamilton Hall, was erected 1824-1826 for the Pennsylvania Institution for the Deaf and Dumb after the designs of John Haviland. This school, chartered in 1821, taught deaf and mute students industrial and trade skills, such as tailoring and lithography. The school left the building in 1893, at which time the Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art (now University of the Arts) purchased it.
Subject
Pennsylvania Institution for the Deaf and Dumb.
Schools -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Deaf -- Education -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Deaf -- Institutional care -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject
Broad Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- South -- 320.
Genre
Albumen prints -- 1850-1860.
Associated name
Haviland, John, 1792-1852, architect.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| *photo - McClees [8339.F.19]
Accession number
8339.F.19
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James McClees Philadelphia Photograph Collection
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