Details
Creator Brightbill, George M., collector.
Contributor The World Post Card Co., publisher.
Cope & Stewardson, architect.
Wilson Brothers & Co., architect.
Title Pennsylvania Institution for the Deaf and Dumb postcards. [graphic].
Publisher Philadelphia: The World Post Card Co
Date ca. 1910
Physical Description 2 photomechanical prints (postcards): photolithograph; 9 x 15 cm.(3.5 x 5.5 in.)
Description Contains images depicting the campus of the Pennsylvania Institute for the Deaf and Dumb, built circa 1890 by Cope & Stewardson and Wilson Brothers & Company. Includes exterior views of Wissinoming Hall and Cresheim Hall, only 2 of 9 buildings on the 35 acre campus around the turn of the century.
Notes Institution started by David Sexias in his home, but demand for classes required the school to move to the former Mansion House Hotel building at 11th and Market Streets in 1820. Moved again to Broad and Pine Streets before inhabiting the Mount Airy campus in 1892.
Sheet number: 138B15.
Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Subject Asylums -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Schools -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Germantown Avenue (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 7500.
Genre Photomechanical prints -- 1900-1910.
Postcards -- 1900-1910.
Associated name Cope & Stewardson, architect.
Associated name Wilson Brothers & Co., architect.
Printer The World Post Card Co., publisher.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Brightbill postcards [Organizations (By Name) - 138]
Accession number Brightbill 138
138-b15-a
138-b15-b