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Contributor Provenance: Poulson, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1789-1866, collector.
McArthur, John, 1823-1890, architect.
Printer: P.S. Duval &Son, lithographer.
Title View of the department for coloured children of the House of Refuge. [graphic]: Looking from the north west. / John McArthur Jr. Architect, 15, Mercantile Library Building, Phil.
Publisher Philadelphia: P.S. Duval & Son's Lith.,
Date [1858]
Extent 1 print: lithograph; 12 x 21 cm. (4.75 x 8.25 in.)
Description Exterior view of department buildings including the girls' and boys' dormitories; girls' dining and sewing rooms; boys' school rooms; and the superintendent's rooms. The buildings, located between Parrish and Brown Streets between 22nd and 24th Streets, opened in 1850.
Notes Frontispiece of the Thirtieth Annual Report of the Board of Managers of the House of Refuge (Philadelphia: Printed by Henry B. Ashmead, 1858) (LCP Am 1858 Phil Hou 14483.O.7)
Originally part of Charles A. Poulson's scrapbook of illustrations of Philadelphia.
Genre Lithographs 1850-1860.
Subject House of Refuge (Philadelphia, Pa.).-Colored Dept.
Juvenile detention homes--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
Correctional institutions--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
African American youth--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
Spatial coverage Parrish Street (Philadelphia, Pa.)--2200 to 2400 block.
Brown Street (Philadelphia, Pa.)--2200 to 2400 block.
Is part of Wainwright Philadelphia Lithographs
Is referenced by Wainwright 426.
Has format TMP.objres.4613.jpg
Related resource http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W426.htm
Call number Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. W426 [(1)1525.F.41a]
Accession number (1)1525.F.41a