Details
Creator Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 21-1886, artist.
Contributor P.S. Duval & Son, printer.
McArthur, John, 1823-1890, architect.
Title Mower U. S. A. General Hospital, Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia [graphic] / J. McArthur, archt. ; J. Queen, del.
Publisher Philadelphia : P. S. Duval & Son lith
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1865
Date c1865
Physical Description 1 print : chromolithograph ; 30 x 52 cm. (12 x 20.5 in.)
Description Bird's eye view showing the Civil War hospital, which contains a central complex of administrative and utility buildings, and radiating hospital wards, all within a circumference of one mile. These buildings are numbered 1 through 40 in the image, with the key on the bottom of the print near the title. Buildings 1 through 21 are listed on the left side of the title and 22 through 40 are listed on the right. Outside of the hospital complex people wait at the station for an incoming train. Horses pull drays to and from the blacksmith shop, stables and freight shop, which are all adjacent to the train station. Trees surround the complex.
Is referenced by Wainwright 239
Notes Copyrighted by W. Kipling.
Frontispiece to Rules and special orders of the Mower United States Army General Hospital at Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia (Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1865). [Am 1865 Phi Mow, 15730.D]
Philadelphia on Stone
POS 490
Removed from pamphlet and housed in Print Department.
Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc15 M936a.
Atwater Kent Museum: 54.76.94/2
Library of Congress: PGA-Duval--Mower (B size)
Biographical / historical note Mower General Hospital, built in 1862 after the designs of Philadelphia architect John McArthur, Jr. between Stenton, Germantown, Springfield and Abington avenues opposite the Chestnut Hill track of the Reading Railroad (7900-8000 blocks Stenton Avenue) received injured soldiers transported directly from the battlefield between January 1863 and May 1865. The hospital, designed as a pavilion to control the spread of infection, consisted of several hospital wards radiating from a central enclosed complex of administrative and utility buildings. Complex included the administration building, a chapel, post office, band-stand, food preparation shops and storage houses, a barber shop, dining room, and guard house. Hospital utilized fresh water from the Chestnut Hill water works, gas lighting, and indoor plumbing. Building was razed following the war.
Subject Mower Hospital (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Military hospitals -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Stenton Avenue (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 7900 block.
Stenton Avenue (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 8000 block.
Chestnut Hill (Philadelphia, Pa.)
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Hospitals -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Genre Chromolithograph -- 1860-1870.
Frontispieces -- 1860-1870.
Bird's eye views -- 1860-1870.
Associated name McArthur, John, 1823-1890, architect.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| *W239 [15730.D.frontispiece]
Accession number 15730.D.frontispiece