Details
Creator Brightbill, George M., collector.
Title Mount Saint Joseph Academy postcards. [graphic].
Date 1906-1907
Physical Description 3 photomechanical prints (postcards): photolithograph; 9 x 15 cm.(3.5 x 5.5 in.)
Description Landscape views of the campus of Mount Saint Joseph Academy in Chestnut Hill, now occupied by Chestnut Hill College. Founded by the Sisters of Saint Joseph as a Catholic convent and girls seminary in 1858 on the Joseph Middleton estate. Mount Saint Joseph Female Academy building constructed in 1874. Turned into a day school in 1911. Mount Saint Joseph's moved to Flourtown in 1961.
Notes Contains 2 postcards printed in color and 1 printed in black and white.
Sheet numbers: 153A01B and 153B06A.
Undivided backs.
Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Subject Schools -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Northwestern Avenue (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- near Stenton Avenue.
Genre Photomechanical prints -- Color -- 1900-1910.
Photomechanical prints -- 1900-1910.
Postcards -- 1900-1910.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Brightbill postcards [Schools - Miscellaneous - 153]
Accession number Brightbill 153
153-b06a-b