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View of the department for white children of the House of Refuge. [graphic]: Looking from the south west. / John McArthur Jr. Architect, 15, Mercantile Library Building, Phil.
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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 white children of the House of Refuge. [graphic]: Looking from the south west. / John McArthur Jr. Architect, 15, Mercantile Library Building, Phil.
Publisher
Philadelphia: P.S. Duval & Son's Lith.,
Date
[1858].
Extent
1 print: lithograph mounted on yellow paper; image 12 x 21 cm. (4.75 x 8 in.); overall 17 x 26 cm (6.75 x 10.25 in.)
Description
Exterior view of department buildings including the girls'and boys' dormitories; girls' work and sitting room; boys' workshop; and the officers' rooms. The buildings, located between Parrish and Brown Streets between 22nd and 24th Streets, opened in 1850.
Notes
Frontispiece to 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.
Poulson inscription on recto: Feby. 16_59_.
Genre
Lithographs 1850-1860.
Subject
House of Refuge (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Juvenile detention homes--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
Correctional institutions--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 428.
Has format
TMP.objres.4612.jpg
Related resource
http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W428.htm
Call number
Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. W428 [(1)1525.F.41b]
Accession number
(1)1525.F.41b
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