| Creator |
Aero Service Corporation, photographer. |
| Title |
Byberry Hospital. [graphic]. |
| Publisher |
PA. Philadelphia. 1925 |
| Date |
ca. 1925 |
| Physical Description |
14 negatives : glass ; 21 x 25 cm. (8 x 10 in.) |
| Description |
Aerial views. Depicts original hospital buildings including male and female dormitories or "groups" constructed between 1906
and the mid-1920s in the Byberry or Somerton section of northeast Philadelphia. Established in 1907 as Philadelphia Hospital
for Mental Diseases, it was renamed Philadelphia State Hospital when the state of Pennsylvania took over the operations in
1936. Closed in 1990, the buildings were demolished 2006-2008.
|
| Notes |
Negative numbers: 5501, 5502, 5503, 5504, 5505, 5506, 5507, 5508, 5509, 5510, 5519, 5520, 5521, 5523. |
|
5521 not digitized; negative is damaged and cannot be scanned. |
| Subject |
Philadelphia State Hospital at Byberry (Philadelphia, Pa.) |
|
Psychiatric hospitals -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. |
| Geographic subject |
Byberry (Philadelphia, Pa.) |
|
Roosevelt Boulevard (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 14000. |
| Genre |
Glass negatives -- 1920-1930. |
|
Aerial photographs -- 1920-1930. |
| Location |
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Aero Service [P.8990.5501-5510; P.8990.5519-5521; P.8990.5523] |
| Accession number |
P.8990.5501 |
|
P.8990.5502 |
|
P.8990.5503 |
|
P.8990.5504 |
|
P.8990.5505 |
|
P.8990.5506 |
|
P.8990.5507 |
|
P.8990.5508 |
|
P.8990.5509 |
|
P.8990.5510 |
|
P.8990.5519 |
|
P.8990.5520 |
|
P.8990.5521 |
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P.8990.5523 |
