Details
Contributor P.S. Duval & Son, printer.
McArthur, John, 1823-1890, architect.
Title View of the department for white children of the House of Refuge. Looking from the south west. / John McArthur Junr. architect, 16, Mercantile Library Building, Philada. [graphic].
Publisher Philadelphia : P.S. Duval's Steam Lith. Press Philad
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1854
Date [1854]
Physical Description 1 print : lithograph ; 33 x 53 cm. (13 x 21 in.)
Description Exterior view of department buildings including the "Girls' Dormitories" (2nd and 1st class); "Girls' Work and Sitting room";"Officer's Rooms & Main Entrance"; and "Boys' Dormitories and "Workshop" (1st class). The buildings, located between Parrish and Brown Streets between 22nd and 24th Streets, opened in 1850.
Is referenced by Wainwright 427
Notes Frontispiece to The twenty-sixth annual report of the Board of Managers of the House of Refuge (Philadelphia: Published by order of the contributors, T.K. and P.G. Collins, printer, 1854).
Philadelphia on Stone
POS 793
Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
Library Company of Philadelphia: in Am 1854 Phi Hou 13159.O.2.
Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bb2 R332.
Subject House of Refuge (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Correctional institutions -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Juvenile detention homes -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
SP10 Philadelphia artists.
Geographic subject Parrish Street (Philadelphia, PA) -- 2200-2300.
Parrish Street (Philadelphia, PA) -- 2300-2400.
Brown Street (Philadelphia, PA) -- 2200-2300.
Brown Street (Philadelphia, PA) -- 2300-2400.
Genre Lithographs -- 1850-1860.
Frontispieces -- 1850-1860.
Associated name McArthur, John, 1823-1890, architect.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| BOOK| Rare| W427 [Am 1854 Phi Hou 13159.O.2.frontis]
Accession number 13159.O.2.frontis