Details
Creator Doughty, Thomas, 1793-1856, artist.
Contributor Childs & Inman, printer.
Title Friends Asylum for the Insane near Frankford. [graphic] / Doughty, del.
Publisher Philadelphia : Childs & Inman lithrs
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1832
Date [1832]
Physical Description 1 print : lithograph ; 11 x 19 cm. (4.25 x 7.25 in.)
Description Exterior view of the almshouse building as it appeared after two patient wings were added to the original structure in 1827. The grounds of the mental institution, formerly a fifty-two acre farm in Oxford Township, were purchased by the Society of Friends in 1813, near Frankford. The hospital opened to patients four years later in 1817.
Is referenced by Wainwright 143
Notes Frontispiece to Fifteenth annual report on the state of the Asylum for the relief of persons deprived of the use of their reason, (Philadelphia: Printed by T.A. Conrad, corner Sixth and Cherry Streets, 1832). Report also contains "Map of the Asylum Farm" and "Groundfloor of the Asylum" printed on tissue by Childs & Inman lithrs. Philadelphia.
Philadelphia on Stone
POS 284
Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
Library Company of Philadelphia: in Am 1814 Phi Asy (box) 9092.O.11a.
Historical Society of Pennsylvania
Free Library of Philadelphia: Castner 9:38, Philadelphiana
Subject Friends Hospital (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Mental institutions -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Mentally ill -- Care -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Frankford (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Genre Lithographs -- 1830-1840.
Frontispieces -- 1830-1840.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| W143 [Am 1814 Phi Asy (box) 9092.O.11a.frontis]
Accession number 9092.O.11a.frontis