Details
Creator Aero Service Corporation, photographer.
Contributor Walter, Thomas Ustick, 1804-1887, architect.
Title Girard College, N. Phila. [graphic].
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1931
Date June 27, 1931
Physical Description 1 negative : glass ; 21 x 25 cm. (8 x 10 in.)
Description Aerial view of Girard College at Girard Avenue including Founder's Hall and the eastern and western outbuildings. The school buildings, designed by Philadelphia architect Thomas Ustick Walter in the Greek Revival style, were constructed 1833-1847. Girard College was established through a bequest from Stephen Girard, a Philadelphia financier and philanthropist, for the creation of a school for poor white male orphans. It opened in 1848.
Notes Negative number: P203.
Subject Girard College -- Buildings.
Schools -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Orphans -- Education -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject College Avenue (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- North -- 2000-2490.
Genre Glass negatives -- 1930-1940.
Aerial photographs -- 1930-1940.
Associated name Walter, Thomas Ustick, 1804-1887, architect.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Aero Service [P.8990.P203]
Accession number P.8990.P203