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View of the department for coloured children of the House of Refuge. [graphic]: Looking from the north west. / John McArthur Jr. Architect, 15, Mercantile Library Building, Phil.
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Contributor
P.S. Duval & Son, printer.
McArthur, John, 1823-1890, architect.
Poulson, Charles A. 1789-1866, collector.
Title
View of the department for coloured children of the House of Refuge. [graphic]: Looking from the north west. / John McArthur Jr. Architect, 15, Mercantile Library Building, Phil.
Publisher
Philadelphia : P.S. Duval & Son's Lith
Publisher
PA. Philadelphia. 1858
Date
[1858]
Physical Description
2 prints : lithograph ; sheet 12 x 21 cm (4.75 x 8.25 in.)
Description
Exterior view of department buildings, including the girls' and boys' dormitories; girls' dining and sewing rooms; boys' school rooms; and the superintendent's rooms. A tall brick wall surrounds the rear and sides of the complex of buildings. Two men and a boy convene on the grounds in the foreground. The buildings, located between Parrish and Brown Streets between 22nd and 24th Streets, opened in 1850. The House of Refuge opened in 1828 at 15th and Coates streets, i.e., the 1500 block of Fairmount Avenue. Boy and girl residents attended school and worked at a variety of employments, including book binding and shoe making (boys) and washing and cooking (girls).
Is referenced by
Wainwright, 426
Notes
Title from item.
Frontispiece of the Thirtieth annual report of the Board of Managers of the House of Refuge (Philadelphia: Printed by Henry B. Ashmead, 1858) (LCP Am 1858 Phil Hou 14483.O.7)
Philadelphia on Stone
POS 792
Originally part of Charles A. Poulson's scrapbook of illustrations of Philadelphia [(1)1525.F.41a].
Gift of Clarence Wolf, 2013 [P.2013.81.8].
Description revised 2021.
Access points revised 2021.
Subject
House of Refuge (Philadelphia, Pa.). Colored Department.
African American youth -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Correctional institutions -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Juvenile detention homes -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Reformatories -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject
Brown Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 2200 to 2400 block.
Parrish Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 2200 to 2400 block.
Genre
Lithographs -- 1850-1860.
Associated name
McArthur, John, 1823-1890, architect.
Provenance
Poulson, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1789-1866, collector.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| W426 [(1)1525.F.41a & P.2013.81.8]
Accession number
(1)1525.F.41a
P.2013.81.8
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Philadelphia on Stone Digital Catalog
Philadelphia on Stone: Library Company of Philadelphia
African American History Prints and Watercolors and Drawings
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