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Medico-Chirurgical Hospital postcards. [graphic].
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Creator
Brightbill, George M., collector.
Title
Medico-Chirurgical Hospital postcards. [graphic].
Date
1900-1915
Physical Description
4 photomechanical prints (postcards): photolithograph; 9 x 15 cm.(3.5 x 5.5 in.)
Description
Depicts exterior views of the Medico-Chirurgical College and Hospital buildings. Depicts an aerial view of the campus on Cherry Street between 17th and 18th Streets showing (from left to right) the maternity and children's hospital; the clinical amphitheatre; the main hospital building; the power house; college hall and the new dispensary and laboratory building. Also includes more detailed images of the main hospital building and the laboratory building.
Notes
Contains 1 postcard printed in color and 3 printed in black and white.
The Orphan Asylum and the Home for Indigent Widows occupied the site before the Medico-Chirurgical College acquired the property circa 1890. The original Medico-Chirurgical hospital building was located in the reconstructed Orphan's Asylum built by William Strickland after a devastating fire destroyed the original building in 1822.
Sheet numbers: 108A05 and 108B04.
Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Subject
Hospitals -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject
Cherry Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 1700 block.
Genre
Photomechanical prints -- Color -- 1910-1920.
Photomechanical prints -- 1900-1910.
Postcards -- 1900-1920.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Brightbill postcards [Hospitals - 108]
Accession number
Brightbill 108
108-a05-a
108-b04-b
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