Details
Contributor Haehnlen, Jacob, b. 1824, printer.
Title Philadelphia Alms House [certificate] [graphic].
Publisher Philadelphia: J. Haehnlen
Date [ca. 1870]
Physical Description 1 print: transfer lithograph; 48 x 38 cm.(19 x 14.75 in.)
Description Certification certificate from the "Guardians, Physicians and Surgeons of the Pennsylvania Hospital" containing an exterior view of the Blockley Almshouse and Philadelphia General Hospital in West Philadelphia. The Board of Guardians, the governing board of the Guardians of the Poor, established in 1782 and abolished in 1877, oversaw the operations of the almshouse, including admissions, accounts, and employment of the poor. The almshouse was completed in 1833 after the designs of Philadelphia architect William Strickland.
Notes Not in Wainwright.
Issued to W. Penn Buck M.D. for fifteen months as resident physician in 1871. Signed John M. Whitall, President of the Board of Guardians, Alfred Stille, M.D., President of the Medical Board, Charles ?, Secretary Board of Guardians, and John S. [Penn?] Atty. account.
Philadelphia on Stone
POS 571
Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Certificates - Philadelphia Alms House
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Subject Blockley Almshouse.
Philadelphia General Hospital.
Almshouses -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject West Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Genre Transfer lithographs -- 1860-1870.
Certificates -- 1860-1870.
Associated name Strickland, William, 1787-1854, architect.
Location Historical Society of Pennsylvania | HSP Certificates - Philadelphia Alms House
Accession number HSP Certificates - Philadelphia Alms House