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Friends' Asylum for the Insane near Frankford. [graphic] / From nature & on stone by G. Lehman.
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Creator
Lehman, George, d. 1870, artist.
Contributor
Printer Lehman & Duval Lithrs., lithographer.
Title
Friends' Asylum for the Insane near Frankford. [graphic] / From nature & on stone by G. Lehman.
Publisher
Philadelphia: Lehman & Duval Lithrs.,
Date
[1836].
Extent
1 print: lithograph; 14.5 x 24 cm. (5.75 x 9.5 in.)
Description
Exterior view of the front of the almshouse founded by the Society of Friends in 1813 located in the Frankford section of Philadelphia.
Notes
Published as the frontispiece of the annual reports of the asylum (entitled: ... Annual Report of the State of the Asylum for the Relief of Persons Deprived of the Use of Their Reason) from 1836 to 1840.
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Genre
Lithographs 1830-1840.
Frontispieces 1830-1840.
Subject
Friends Hospital (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Psychiatric hospitals--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
Mentally ill-Care--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
Spatial coverage
Frankford (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Is part of
Wainwright Philadelphia Lithographs
Is referenced by
Wainwright 144.
Has format
TMP.objres.4404.jpg
Related resource
http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W144.htm
Call number
Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. W144 [P.2049]
Accession number
P.2049
In Collections
Wainwright Lithograph Collection
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