Details
Creator Brightbill, George M., collector.
Contributor Walter, Thomas Ustick, 1804-1887, architect.
Title Wills Eye Hospital postcards. [graphic].
Date 1905-1935
Physical Description 2 photomechanical prints (postcard): photolithograph; 9 x 15 cm.(3.5 x 5.5 in.)
Description Exterior view of front facade of hospital built circa 1832 after designs by Thomas Ustick Walter. Also includes a collage of images depicting the interior of the hospital and staff tending to patients.
Notes Founded by James Wills, Jr. as "The Wills Hospital for the Relief of the Indigent Blind and Lame." The lot on Race Street was purchased for $20,000 and the cornerstone of the building laid in 1832.
Sheet number: 108B07.
Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Subject Wills Eye Hospital (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Hospitals -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Race Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 1810-1824.
Genre Photomechanical prints -- 1900-1940.
Postcards -- 1900-1940.
Associated name Walter, Thomas Ustick, 1804-1887, architect.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Brightbill postcards [Hospitals - 108]
Accession number Brightbill 108
108-b07-d