| Creator |
Bartlett & French, photographer. |
| Contributor |
Walter, Thomas Ustick, 1804-1887, architect. |
| Title |
Philadelphia University of Medicine and Surgery. [graphic]. |
| Publisher |
Philadelphia |
| Date |
ca. 1868 |
| Physical Description |
1 photographic print: albumen on stereograph mount; 9 x 17 cm. (3.25 x 6.5 in.) |
| Description |
Exterior view of building designed by architect Thomas Ustick Walter and built between 1849 and 1853 for the Medical Department
of Pennsylvania College. Upon this school's closure in 1861, the Eclectic Medical College of Philadelphia, founded 1860, purchased
the building and occupied it from 1863 to ca. 1874. It is unclear when the building was demolished. The Eclectic Medical College
of Philadelphia became the Philadelphia University of Medicine and Surgery in 1865 and offered it's final lecture sessions
between 1875-76. The Dean of the University, T.B. Miller, continued to sell bogus diplomas until 1880, when, after exposes
in the Philadelphia Record, the school became extinct.
|
| Notes |
Title and date from typed label on verso. |
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Yellow mount with rounded corners. |
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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. 106.
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Arcadia caption text: Towering above the surrounding row homes, this building at 252-254 South Ninth Street was built in 1849
after the designs of Thomas Ustick Walter. Four different medical institutions occupied the Collegiate Gothic style building
in its first three decades, beginning with the Medical Department of Pennsylvania College (of Gettysburg), which merged with
the Philadelphia College of Medicine in 1859. This school closed in 1861 and the Eclectic Medical College of Philadelphia
moved in. This institution became the Philadelphia University of Medicine and Surgery in 1865. Shown here c. 1868, the fraudulent
university granted bogus degrees until 1880.
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Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012. |
| Subject |
Eclectic Medical College of Philadelphia -- Buildings. |
|
Philadelphia University of Medicine and Surgery (Pa.) |
|
Educational facilities -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. |
|
Medical education -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. |
| Geographic subject |
Ninth Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- South -- 252-254. |
| Genre |
Stereographs -- 1860-1870. |
|
Albumen prints -- 1860-1870. |
| Associated name |
Walter, Thomas Ustick, 1804-1887, architect. |
| Location |
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereo - Bartlett & French - Education [P.8484.24] |
| Accession number |
P.8484.24 |
