Details
Creator Aero Service Corporation, photographer.
Title Pennsylvania Institution for the Deaf and Dumb. [graphic].
Date ca. 1921
Physical Description 1 negative : glass ; 10.5 x 13 cm. (4 x 5 in.)
Description Aerial view of the Mt. Airy campus of the Pennsylvania Institution for the Deaf and Dumb (later renamed Pennsylvania School for the Deaf). Constructed circa 1890 after designs by Cope & Stewardson and Wilson Brothers & Company, the school operated at this location from 1892 until 1984, when it relocated to Germantown. The school was established by David Sexias in Center City in 1820. View includes residences and adjacent railroad tracks. Looks northeast towards Montgomery County.
Notes Negative number: 1536.
Record revised with information supplied by former Aero Service employee Carl H. Winnefeld, Jr.
Subject Pennsylvania Institution for the Deaf and Dumb
Asylums -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Schools -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Germantown Avenue (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 7500.
Mount Airy (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Genre Glass negatives -- 1920-1930.
Aerial photographs -- 1920-1930.
Associated name Cope & Stewardson, architect.
Associated name Wilson Brothers & Co., architect.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Aero Service [P.8990.1536]
Accession number P.8990.1536