Details
Creator Aero Service Corporation, photographer.
Title Byberry Hospital and Northeast Philadelphia. [graphic].
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1939-1941
Date 1939-1941
Physical Description 3 negatives : safety; 21 x 25 cm. (8 x 10 in.)
Description Aerial views from high altitude. Includes original buildings of the Byberry Hopital complex 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: 20313s, 22518s, 22520s.
Negative 20313 dated September 18, 1939.
Subject Philadelphia State Hospital at Byberry (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Psychiatric hospitals -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Byberry (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Roosevelt Boulevard (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 14000.
Genre Safety negatives -- 1940-1950.
Aerial photographs -- 1940-1950.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Aero Service [P.8890. 20313s; P.8990.22518s; P.8990.22520s]
Accession number P.8990.20313s
P.8990.22518s
P.8990.22520s