Details
Creator Lehman, George, d. 1870, artist.
Contributor Lehman & Duval, Lithrs., printer.
Title Friends' Asylum for the Insane near Frankford. [graphic] / From nature & on stone by G. Lehman.
Publisher Philadelphia : Lehman & Duval lithrs
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1836
Date [1836]
Physical Description 1 print : lithograph ; 14.5 x 24 cm. (5.75 x 9.5 in.)
Description Exterior view of the almshouse building as it appeared after two patient wings were added to the original structure in 1827. Includes men standing in the foreground and animals grazing. 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 144
Notes Published as the frontispiece of the annual reports of the asylum (entitled: ... Annual Report of the State of the Asylum for the Relief of Persons Deprived of the Use of Their Reason) from 1836 to 1840.
Philadelphia on Stone
POS 285
Library Company of Philadelphia: P.2049 and in Am 1814 Phi Asy (box) 51117.O.6; 51117.O.9; and 51908.O.5.
Historical Society of Pennsylvania
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| W144 [P.2049]
Accession number P.2049