Details
Creator Brightbill, George M., collector.
Contributor Walter, Thomas Ustick, 1804-1887, architect.
Title Girard College postcards. [graphic].
Date 1900-1920
Physical Description 59 photomechanical prints (postcards): photolithograph; 9 x 15 cm.(3.5 x 5.5 in.)
Description Contains exterior views of Founder's Hall, also identified as the main building, built 1833-1847 after designs by Thomas Ustick Walter.
Notes Contains 38 postcards printed in color and 20 printed in black and white. Also includes 1 linen postcard.
Endowed by philanthropist Stephen Girard to educate boys without fathers. Girard ran away from home in France at the age of fourteen, worked his way up to ship captain and landed in the states in 1776. He became one of the wealthiest men in America before his death seventeen years before the opening of Girard College in 1848.
Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10)
Subject Schools -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject College Avenue (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- West -- 1201-1211.
Genre Photomechanical prints -- Color -- 1900-1920.
Photomechanical prints -- 1900-1910.
Postcards -- 1900-1920.
Associated name Walter, Thomas Ustick, 1804-1887, architect.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Brightbill postcards [Schools - Girard College - 150]
Accession number Brightbill 150
150-a01-b