Details
Creator Brightbill, George M., collector.
Title Misericordia Hospital postcards. [graphic].
Date 1920-1940
Physical Description 6 photomechanical prints (postcards): photolithograph; 9 x 15 cm.(3.5 x 5.5 in.)
Description Contains views of the Misericordia Hospital built in 1915 by Edwin Forrest Durang at the northwest corner of 53rd Street and Cedar Avenue in West Philadelphia. Depicts an exterior view of the front facade of the hospital and interior views of a private room, the nursery, children's ward, women's ward and library.
Notes Contains 1 postcard printed in color and 5 printed in black and white.
Five out of six postcards issued by Artvue Post Card Co., 225 Fifth Ave., New York, NY.
Sheet numbers: 108A05, 108B05B and 108B05C.
Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Subject Hospitals -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Cedar Avenue (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 5301.
Genre Photomechanical prints -- Color -- 1920-1930.
Photomechanical prints -- 1920-1940.
Postcards -- 1920-1940.
Associated name Durang, Edwin Forrest, 1829-1911, architect.
Printer Artvue Post Card Co., publisher.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Brightbill postcards [Hospitals - 108]
Accession number 108-a05-b