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- Title
- Entrance to Jewish Hospital. Columns formerly in front of U. S. Mint, Juniper & Chestnut
- Description
- Depicts the front entrance columns preceding the entrance drive to the Jewish Hospital, facing Tabor Road. The columns were taken from the old United States Mint building at the northwest corner of Chestnut and Juniper Streets before it was demolished in 1902. The Chapel of the Jewish Hospital, built after designs by Magaziner & Potter circa 1912, can be seen in the background., Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Title and date given in manuscript on mount.
- Creator
- Bullock, John G., 1854-1939, photographer
- Date
- Negative March 31, 1913
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern - Bullock [P.9731.107]
- Title
- Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia
- Description
- Exterior view of the hospital, located on Pine Street between 8th and 9th Streets, from the southeast. Street scene in foreground includes a carriage; a wagon; several riders on horseback including a woman riding side saddle; pedestrians; and a watchman's guardhouse. Designed by Samuel Rhoads and David Evans, Jr., the east wing of the hospital was constructed 1755, the west wing and center pavilion in the 1790s., Issued as plate 13 in Views of Philadelphia, and Its Vicinity (Philadelphia: Published by J.C. Wild & J.B. Chevalier, Lithographers, 72 Dock Street, 1838), a series of views originally published as five numbers of four prints each in 1838, and later sold as a bound volume of twenty views., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 558.1. Digital image shows third state of print., Synder, Martin. "J.C. Wild and His Philadelphia Views," Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography (January 1953, Vol. LXXXVII), p. 32-75.
- Creator
- Wild, J. C. (John Caspar), ca. 1804-1846, artist
- Date
- [1838]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W275 [P.2161]
- Title
- Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia
- Description
- Exterior view of the hospital, located on Pine Street between 8th and 9th Streets, from the southeast. Street scene in foreground includes a carriage; a wagon; several riders on horseback including a woman riding side saddle; pedestrians; and a watchman's guardhouse. Designed by Samuel Rhoads and David Evans, Jr., the east wing of the hospital was constructed 1755, the west wing and center pavilion in the 1790s., Copyrighted by J.C. Wild and J.B. Chevalier 1838., Issued as plate 13 in Views of Philadelphia, and Its Vicinity (Philadelphia: Published by J.C. Wild & J.B. Chevalier, Lithographers, 72 Dock Street, 1838), a series of views originally published as five numbers of four prints each in 1838, and later sold as a bound volume of twenty views., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 558.1. Digital image shows third state of print., Synder, Martin. "J.C. Wild and His Philadelphia Views," Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography (January 1953, Vol. LXXXVII), p. 32-75.
- Creator
- Wild, J. C. (John Caspar), ca. 1804-1846, artist
- Date
- c1838
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W275 [P.2160]
- Title
- Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia
- Description
- Exterior view of the hospital, located on Pine Street between 8th and 9th Streets, from the southeast. Street scene in foreground includes a carriage; a wagon; several riders on horseback including a woman riding side saddle; pedestrians; and a watchman's guardhouse. Designed by Samuel Rhoads and David Evans, Jr., the east wing of the hospital was constructed 1755, the west wing and center pavilion in the 1790s., Copyrighted by J.T. Bowen in 1838., Originally issued as plate 13 in Views of Philadelphia, and Its Vicinity (Philadelphia: Published by J.C. Wild & J.B. Chevalier, Lithographers, 72 Dock Street, 1838). The lithographic stones for the views were acquired by John T. Bowen and reissued in 1838 and in 1848 with hand coloring., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 558.2. Digital image shows third state of print., Synder, Martin. "J.C. Wild and His Philadelphia Views," Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography (January 1953, Vol. LXXXVII), p. 32-53.
- Creator
- Wild, J. C. (John Caspar), ca. 1804-1846, artist
- Date
- c1838
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W275.2 [P.2162]
- Title
- Pennsylvania Hospital
- Description
- Exterior view of the hospital, located on Pine Street between 8th and 9th Streets, from the southeast. Street scene in foreground includes a carriage; a wagon; several riders on horseback including a woman riding side saddle; pedestrians; and a watchman's guardhouse. Designed by Samuel Rhoads and David Evans, Jr., the east wing of the hospital was constructed 1755, the west wing and center pavilion in the 1790s., Copyrighted by J.T. Bowen in 1840., Originally issued as plate 13 in Views of Philadelphia, and Its Vicinity (Philadelphia: Published by J.C. Wild & J.B. Chevalier, Lithographers, 72 Dock Street, 1838). The lithographic stones for the views were acquired by John T. Bowen and reissued in 1838 and in 1848 with hand coloring., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 558.3, Synder, Martin. "J.C. Wild and His Philadelphia Views," Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography (January 1953, Vol. LXXXVII), p. 32-53.
- Creator
- Wild, J. C. (John Caspar), ca. 1804-1846, artist
- Date
- c1840, 1848
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W275.3 [P.2163]
- Title
- Pennsylvania Hospital, side view
- Description
- View looking west from the northwest corner of Eighth and Pine streets showing the hospital, founded as a mental institution in 1751 by Dr. Thomas Bond and Benjamin Franklin, built between 1755-1805 at 801-849 Pine Street. East wing built 1755-1757 after the designs of Samuel Rhoads. West wing built 1794-1796 and the center house built 1794-1805 after the designs of David Evans, Sr. and David Evans, Jr. Building altered between 1846-1853 after the designs of John McArthur and John McArthur, Jr., Contains paper label on verso listing over 100 city views published by firm., Grey mount with rounded corners., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., See variant view of the hospital photographed by Robert Newell circa 1870 in Newell Album, P.9062.43b., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Newell & Son, a partnership between Robert and his son, Henry, was active from circa 1870 until 1897 and the death of the elder Newell.
- Creator
- R. Newell & Son, photographer
- Date
- [ca. 1875]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Newell - Hospitals [P.9299.21]
- Title
- Pennsylvania Hospital, E. wing built 1755
- Description
- View looking north of the center section of Pennsylvania Hospital on Pine Street between 8th and 9th Streets. The statue of William Penn, sculpted in 1774 by John Bacon, is also visible through the iron fence. East wing was built from 1755-1757 by Samuel Rhoads, west wing built 1794-1796 by David Evans, Jr., and the center section also constructed by Evans in 1794-1805. All of these sections were altered in the mid 18th century by John McArthur and John McArthur. Jr. Dr. Thomas Bond founded Pennsylvania Hospital in 1751 with the help of Benjamin Franklin, making it the oldest hospital in the United States. The "Pine Building" as it was called, housed the country's first surgical amphitheatre., Inscribed in negative: 3176., Title from negative sleeve.
- Creator
- Hand, Alfred, photographer
- Date
- ca. 1920
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department 4x5 Glass Negatives - Hand [P.9259.84]
- Title
- [Children's Building, Women's Homeopathic Hospital for Men, Women and Children, 20th and Dauphin Streets, Philadelphia.]
- Description
- Real estate photograph commissioned by the Jackson-Cross Company depicting the Children's Building of Women's Homeopathic Hospital, surrounded by snow and separated from the street by a low stone wall. Several cars are parked along the road. One man walks along the sidewalk and another leans against a pole on the corner of Twentieth and Dauphin Streets., Label on recto: Jackson-Cross Company, Lincoln-Liberty Building, Philadelphia., The Jackson-Cross Company, established around 1876, was a Philadelphia real estate firm in operation until 1998.
- Date
- ca. 1940
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Jackson-Cross [P.9784.21]
- Title
- [Women's Homeopathic Hospital for Men, Women and Children, 20th and Dauphin Streets, Philadelphia.]
- Description
- Real estate photograph commissioned by the Jackson-Cross Company depicting the Women's Homeopathic Hospital looking south. The visible section of the building is probably an addition to the original hospital building constructed by Wilson Eyre circa 1884. Snow covers the low stone wall surrounding the hospital grounds. Two men stand on the snow covered sidewalks near the corner of Twentieth and Dauphin Streets., Label on recto: Jackson-Cross Company, Lincoln-Liberty Building, Philadelphia., Title from manuscript note on verso., The Jackson-Cross Company, established around 1876, was a Philadelphia real estate firm in operation until 1998.
- Date
- ca. 1940
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Jackson-Cross [P.9784.22]
- Title
- Satterlee U.S.A. General Hospital, West Philadelphia
- Description
- Bird's eye view showing the hospital opened June 9th, 1862 at Forty-fourth Street and Baltimore Avenue. The hospital complex is surrounded by tents to accommodate the high number of patients as a result of the battles of Wilderness and Spotsylvania. Soldiers and visitors mill the grounds and horse-drawn ominbuses enter the compound. Outside the hospital, a horse-drawn wagon travels and soldiers drill in formation. Also contains several lines of descriptive text and the names of the principal officers printed below the image. Text describes the size and dimensions of the hospital, visiting hours, and patient services including Sisters of Charity on call, a sutler store, barber shop, printing office, and a band., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 676, One of the images gift of William Helfand.
- Creator
- Magnus, Charles, lithographer
- Date
- c1864
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *BW - Hospitals [P.8690; P.9650.1]
- Title
- Mower Hospital concert
- Description
- Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
- Creator
- Mower Hospital (Philadelphia, Pa.)
- Date
- [1864]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare PB Phi Mower 1864 (26)5761.F.28a (McAllister)
- Title
- Wills' Ophthalmic Hospital
- Description
- Exterior view of the Wills' Eye Hospital building constructed in 1832 after designs by Thomas Ustick Walter on the 1800 block of Race Street, opposite Logan Square. The hospital relocated to 1601 Spring Garden Street in 1932., Photographer's imprint on recto., Title printed on mount., Reproduced in The Print and Photograph Department of the Library Company of Philadelphia's Center City Philadelphia in the 19th century (Portsmouth, N.H.: Arcadia Publishing, 2006), p. 52., Arcadia caption text: In 1825 James Wills, Jr. bequeathed a portion of his estate to the city of Philadelphia for an ophthalmic hospital or asylum designated as "The Wills Hospital for the Relief of the Indigent Blind and Lame." The lot on Race Street near Nineteenth Street was purchased for $20,000 and the cornerstone of the building laid in 1832. Thomas Ustick Walter, who won the design competition, purportedly incorporated some of the design features proposed by his competitors into the final plan. In 1932, the expanded institution moved into a larger building at 1601 Spring Garden Street., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
- Creator
- De Young's Palace Dollar Store
- Date
- ca. 1876
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - De Young - Hospitals [P.9212.8]
- Title
- Penn Hospital, Philadelphia
- Description
- Oblique, exterior view of the hospital built 1755-1805. East wing built 1755-1757 after the designs of Samuel Rhoads. West wing built 1794-1796 and the center house built 1794-1805 after the designs of David Evans, Sr. and David Evans, Jr. Building altered between 1846-1853 after the designs of John McArthur and John McArthur, Jr. A man stands next to a bench on the hospital grounds in the foreground., Title on negative., Yellow curved mount with rounded corners and black line border., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Robert M. Vogel.
- Date
- [ca. 1880]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unidentified - Hospitals [P.9047.134]
- Title
- Ground plan; U.S. Army General Hospital at West Philadelphia, Pa. 1862
- Description
- Ground plan of the H-shaped Satterlee U. S. General Hospital in West Philadelphia, showing 32 wards lettered A-Z; XX; OK; and numbered 1-6. The following spaces are also identified: dining halls, guard house and barracks, knapsack room, kitchens, extra diet kitchen, laundry rooms, reading and lecture room, library, smoking rooms, officers' quarters, boiler room, carpenter shop, medical store room, clerks and druggists mess room, stewards office and quarters, chief ward master's office, chapel, donation room, reception room, executive office, surgery, laboratory, printing office, barber shop, engineers gang, green room, post mortem room, stables, sheds, and gates. The Civil War hospital, one of the largest in the country, opened June 9th, 1862 at Forty-fourth Street and Baltimore Avenue in the farmland of West Philadelphia. The hospital was closed in August 1865 and the buildings demolished., Not in Wainwright., Includes "scale of feet.", Includes three notes in the upper left corner. Note 1 is a table of the "Ward capacity" including minimum and maximum occupancy and lengths of wards in feet. Notes 2 and 3 discuss the dimensions, including heights, of specific departments., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 333, Gift of David Doret.
- Date
- 1862
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **BW - Hospitals [P.2009.17.4]
- Title
- Mower U. S. A. General Hospital, Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia
- Description
- Bird's eye view showing the Civil War hospital, which contains a central complex of administrative and utility buildings, and radiating hospital wards, all within a circumference of one mile. These buildings are numbered 1 through 40 in the image, with the key on the bottom of the print near the title. Buildings 1 through 21 are listed on the left side of the title and 22 through 40 are listed on the right. Outside of the hospital complex people wait at the station for an incoming train. Horses pull drays to and from the blacksmith shop, stables and freight shop, which are all adjacent to the train station. Trees surround the complex., Copyrighted by W. Kipling., Frontispiece to Rules and special orders of the Mower United States Army General Hospital at Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia (Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1865). [Am 1865 Phi Mow, 15730.D], Philadelphia on Stone, POS 490, Removed from pamphlet and housed in Print Department., Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc15 M936a., Atwater Kent Museum: 54.76.94/2, Library of Congress: PGA-Duval--Mower (B size), Mower General Hospital, built in 1862 after the designs of Philadelphia architect John McArthur, Jr. between Stenton, Germantown, Springfield and Abington avenues opposite the Chestnut Hill track of the Reading Railroad (7900-8000 blocks Stenton Avenue) received injured soldiers transported directly from the battlefield between January 1863 and May 1865. The hospital, designed as a pavilion to control the spread of infection, consisted of several hospital wards radiating from a central enclosed complex of administrative and utility buildings. Complex included the administration building, a chapel, post office, band-stand, food preparation shops and storage houses, a barber shop, dining room, and guard house. Hospital utilized fresh water from the Chestnut Hill water works, gas lighting, and indoor plumbing. Building was razed following the war.
- Creator
- Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 21-1886, artist
- Date
- c1865
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W239 [15730.D.frontispiece]
- Title
- Pennsylvania Hospital for the Insane. View of the portico. Dept. for females, Phila
- Description
- Shows a fountain in the middle of a grassy area at the mental institution, known as Kirkbride's, at 4401 Market Street in West Philadelphia. The building, built 1836-1840 after the designs of Isaac Holden to remedy the overcrowded conditions at the Pennsylvania Hospital, was demolished 1959., Title from manuscript note on mount., Yellow paper mount with square corners., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
- Date
- ca. 1865
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unidentified - Hospitals [(8)1322.F.7d]
- Title
- Citizens Volunteer Hospital. Corner of Broad St. and Washington Avenue
- Description
- Fundraising certificate containing views of the exterior and interior of the volunteer hospital opened September 5, 1862 opposite the Philadelphia, Wilmington, and Baltimore Railroad depot. Exterior view shows civilians and a troop of Union soldiers standing in front of the hospital as a train arrives. Interior view shows rows of beds lining a central hallway. Women volunteers attend to bed-ridden soldiers and set a long table for a meal. Framed by decorative motifs including the seal of Philadelphia; angels hovering above an able-bodied and an injured soldier in front of columns inscribed "The Glory of the Volunteer"; American flags; and floral elements. The hospital provided care to the most seriously injured before their reassignment to other hospitals. Closed on August 11, 1865., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 130, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 15 C 581, Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of material concerning Civil War volunteer saloons and hospitals.
- Creator
- Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 21-1886, artist
- Date
- [1862]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W68 [5778.F Citizens Volunteer]
- Title
- [Pennsylvania Hospital, 801-849 Pine Street, Philadelphia]
- Description
- View looking north showing the center house of the hospital, founded in 1751, built between 1755-1805. View includes a group of men standing in front of the building. West wing built 1794-1796 and the center house built 1794-1805 after the designs of David Evans, Sr. and David Evans, Jr. Building altered between 1846-1853 after the designs of John McArthur and John McArthur, Jr., Title supplied by cataloguer., Photographer's imprint stamped on mount., Distributors' imprint printed on mount: H. Ropes & Co., 323 Broadway, N.Y. Manufs of Stereoscopes & Graphoscopes., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Inscribed in negative: 151., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Reproduced in The Print and Photograph Department of the Library Company of Philadelphia's Center City Philadelphia in the 19th century (Portsmouth, N.H.: Arcadia Publishing, 2006), p. 47., Arcadia caption text: Pennsylvania Hospital, chartered in 1751 thanks to the efforts of Dr. Thomas Bond and Benjamin Franklin, served the indigent sick and mentally ill in Philadelphia. In 1756 Samuel Rhoads designed the east wing of the hospital building on the north side of Pine Street near Eighth Street. A group of men pose in front of the central administration building, built in 1804 to unite the completed east and west wings. The pilastered central block contained the oldest surgical amphitheater in the United States, the drum and dome of which are visible in this c. 1875 image., Duplicate of P.9260.63., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Newell & Son, a partnership between Robert and his son, Henry, was active from circa 1870 until 1897 and the death of the elder Newell.
- Creator
- R. Newell & Son, photographer
- Date
- ca. 1875
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Newell - Hospitals [P.9260.64]
- Title
- Penn Hospital Philada
- Description
- Exterior view looking north showing the center house of the hospital, founded as a mental institution in 1751 by Dr. Thomas Bond and Benjamin Franklin, built between 1755-1805 at 801-849 Pine Street. West wing built 1794-1796 and the center house built 1794-1805 after the designs of David Evans, Jr. Building altered between 1846-1853 after the designs of John McArthur and John McArthur, Jr., Title printed on mount., Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Yellow curved mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
- Creator
- Cremer, James, 1821-1893
- Date
- [ca. 1875]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Cremer - Hospitals [P.9260.32]
- Title
- Pennsylvania Hospital
- Description
- View looking north showing the center house of the hospital, founded as a mental institution in 1751 by Dr. Thomas Bond and Benjamin Franklin, built between 1755-1805 at 801-849 Pine Street. View includes a group of men standing in front of the building. West wing built 1794-1796 and the center house built 1794-1805 after the designs of David Evans, Jr. Building altered between 1846-1853 after the designs of John McArthur and John McArthur, Jr., Photographer's label pasted on verso., Title from manuscript note on verso., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Duplicate of P.9260.64., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Newell & Son, a partnership between Robert and his son, Henry, was active from circa 1870 until 1897 and the death of the elder Newell.
- Creator
- R. Newell & Son, photographer
- Date
- ca. 1875
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Newell - Hospitals [P.9260.63]
- Title
- Mower U.S.A. General Hospital, Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia
- Description
- View showing the Civil War hospital, built in 1862 after the designs of Philadelphia architect John McArthur, Jr. between Stenton, Germantown, Springfield and Abington avenues opposite the Chestnut Hill track of the Reading Railroad (7900-8000 blocks Stenton Avenue). Hospital contains a central complex of administrative and utility buildings, and radiating hospital wards. A train approaches the station at which people wait opposite the hospital. Trees surround the complex. Also shows a neighboring factory building and visitors walking toward the entrance of the hospital and on the grounds., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 491, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 15 M 936
- Creator
- Andrews, W. S., artist
- Date
- [ca. 1863]
- Location
- Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bc 15 M 936
- Title
- Satterlee Polka for the piano. Composed and respectfully dedicated to Surgeon I.I. Hayes U.S.V. Comg. Satterlee U.S.A. Genl. Hospital W. Phila
- Description
- Sheet music cover containing a view looking down at the Satterlee U.S.A. General Hospital grounds from a hill in West Philadelphia. In the foreground, soldiers, women, and children, on foot and horseback, descend a path on the elevation en route to the Civil War Union hospital. Recuperating soldiers and visitors recline on a large rock on the hillside and in the adjoining valley. A foot bridge lined by trees leads from the valley to Satterlee. Several figures are visible walking, and arriving by foot and omnibus at the hospital grounds that are also lined by tents. In the left, a horse-drawn omnibus crosses a bridge, overshadowed by trees, spanning Mill Creek., Manuscript note on recto: NW fr. Balto Ave. N of 43rd St., Price printed on recto: 4., pdcc00023, Philadelphia on Stone, Library Company copy acquired after POS 2010: P.2011.63.5., Free Library of Philadelphia: Castner 9:71, Hayes served as the ship's surgeon during Elisha Kent Kane's Artic explorations (1853-1855) and organized his own Arctic exploration in 1860 before serving at Satterlee General Hospital.
- Creator
- Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 21-1886, artist
- Date
- [ca. 1863]
- Location
- Free Library of Philadelphia. | Print and Photograph Collection. FLP Castner 9:71
- Title
- United States Army Hospital, Philadelphia This is one of the largest army hospitals in the world it is capable of accommodating 3000 men, it has two dining rooms, each 775 feet long, the whole establishment covers twelve acres of ground, and is enclosed by a fence, 14 feet high, the surgeon in charge is Doctor Isaac J. Hays, the distinguished Arctic explorer, who was a former companion of the lamented Doctor Kane
- Description
- Bird’s eye view showing the Satterlee U. S. General Hospital, opened June 9th, 1862 at Forty-fourth Street and Baltimore Avenue in the farmland of West Philadelphia. A horse-drawn wagon, a man pushing a handcart of linens, and a line of pedestrians approach the entrance of the hospital complex that is guarded by a soldier. Within the complex, visitors stroll and a troop of soldiers drill in the central courtyards bordered by over twenty wards. Also shows a neighboring building, soldiers reclining near the fence of the complex, and a soldier on horseback. The hospital was closed in August 1865 and the buildings demolished., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 774, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bb 15 U 58 (oversize), Inscribed on verso: Gift of Arthur Sussel, Aug. 23, 1957.
- Date
- c1863
- Location
- Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bb 15 U 58 (oversize)
- Title
- South Street Hospital, 24th and South streets, Philadelphia
- Description
- Interior view of the Civil War hospital. Shows convalescing soldiers, seated, in opposite rows, along the walls of a ward. A few men, possibly hospital attendants, stand among the patients. South Street Hospital was also known as "stump hospital" given the large number of amputations performed at the facility., Title from manuscript note on mount: Hospital 24th & South., White mount with square corners., Created postfreeze., Originally part of McAllister scrapbooks of materials of Civil War Views, Places & Events., Reproduced in The Print and Photograph Department of the Library Company of Philadelphia's Center City Philadelphia in the 19th century (Portsmouth, N.H.: Arcadia Publishing, 2006), p. 53., Arcadia caption text: Recuperating soldiers are seated in opposite rows lining the walls of a ward in the South Street Hospital. Located at Twenty-fourth and South streets, this Civil War hospital was sometimes referred to as “stump hospital” because of the large number of amputations performed there., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
- Date
- ca. 1863
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unidentified - Hospitals [5779.F.14a]
- Title
- Rules and regulations Citizens' Volunteer Hospital Broad & Washington Streets, Philadelphia
- Description
- The hospital was organized Sept. 5, 1862 and closed Aug. 11, 1865., Printed on card stock; printed area, including single-rule border, measures 32.3 x 24.6 cm, Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
- Creator
- Citizens Volunteer Hospital Association (Philadelphia, Pa.)
- Date
- [between 1862 and 1865]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare #Am 1862 Citizens 5778.F.40a (McAllister)
- Title
- Views of Pennsylvania Hospital, 801-849 Pine Street, Philadelphia
- Description
- Exterior views showing the hospital built 1755-1805. East wing built 1755-1757 after the designs of Samuel Rhoads. West wing built 1794-1796 and the center house built 1794-1805 after the designs of David Evans, Sr. and David Evans, Jr. Building altered between 1846-1853 after the designs of John McArthur and John McArthur, Jr. Views include the William Penn statue attributed to British sculptor John Cheere or John Bacon., Yellow paper mounts with square corners and manuscript titles., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
- Date
- ca. 1863
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unidentified - Hospitals [(8)1322.F.5g-2 & h; (8)1322.F.7a]
- Title
- Citizens Volunteer Hospital Association of Philadelphia. Instituted, September 5th 1862 Erected September 5th 1862 for temporary relief of sick and wounded soldiers, arriving in and passing through Philadelphia. Closed August 9th 1865
- Description
- Certificate containing a view showing a bustling street scene around the hospital situated opposite the Philadelphia, Wilmington, and Baltimore Railroad depot at the corner of Broad Street and Washington Avenue. On the sidewalk, soldiers converse, men and women pedestrians stroll, and a female peddler and vendor sell their goods and wares, the latter patronized by Zouaves. In the street, medical personnel and doctors accompany injured soldiers, by stretcher, foot, and on crutches toward the hospital. Men, women, and children walk, converse, and greet each other, and horse-drawn carriages, including possibly an ambulance, travel past and stop near the hospital. Children include a boy carrying a basket and two attempting to help a man with his valise. Also shows surrounding buildings in the background. The hospital provided care to the most seriously injured before their reassignment to other hospitals. The hospital closed on August 11, 1865., Signed Thomas T. Tasker Junr President and F. Bayle Secretary pro tem., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 129, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Historical Society of Pennsylvania:, Variant of image used as central scene in Wainwright 69.
- Creator
- Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 21-1886, artist
- Date
- [ca. 1865]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **W67 [P.8650]
- Title
- Pennsylvania Hospital, in Pine Street Philadelphia
- Description
- View showing the first hospital in the United States on Pine Street between Eighth and Ninth streets, built between 1755 and 1805 from the designs of Philadelphia architects, Samuel Rhoads, and David Evans, Jr. In the foreground, pedestrians walk near the brick fence enclosing the multi-winged hospital, and a man in a military uniform settles his bucking horse., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Illustrated in S. Robert Teitelman's Birch's Views of Philadelphia (Philadelphia: The Free Library of Philadelphia, 1982, rev. 2000), pl. 26.
- Creator
- W. Birch & Son
- Date
- 1799
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Birch's views [Sn 26a/P.2276.60]
- Title
- [Presbyterian Hospital, administration building, Philadelphia]
- Description
- View of the exterior of the administration building at Thirty-ninth Street between Powelton Avenue and Filbert Street in West Philadelphia, erected in 1891 and demolished in 1959. Shows the stairs leading to the front door to the brick building. In the left, a row of seven boys, including an African American boy, stand on the sidewalk before a gate and look at the viewer. Trees line the sidewalk. The three-story building in the right is visible. Built on land donated in 1871 by church member Rev. Dr. Ephraim D. Sanders, the hospital was erected as a monument to the Philadelphia Presbyterian Alliance which was formed in 1870 following the reconciliation of the Old and New School Branches of the Presbyterian Church., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from attire of the people., Purchase 1989., Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
- Date
- [ca. 1900]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - unidentified - Hospitals [P.9260.474]
- Title
- Citizens Volunteer Hospital, corner of Broad St. & Washington Avenue
- Description
- Print containing a montage of 11 exterior and interior views of the volunteer hospital opened September 5, 1862 opposite the Philadelphia, Wilmington, and Baltimore Railroad depot. Central view shows a bustling street scene outside of the hospital. Horse-drawn carriages, possibly including an ambulance, arrive and depart; injured soldiers are carried by stretcher and assisted by fellow soldiers to the building; male and female pedestrians converse and traverse the streets; two boys attempt to help a man with his valise; and Zouaves patronize a female vendor's stand. Other views show the "Interior of Hospital" where women volunteers and doctors attend to bed-ridden soldiers; the "Kitchen" equipped with an ice box, cooking stove, and heating stove where two women prepare food on a counter; the "Dining Room" in which several soldiers eat at three long rows of tables near a heating stove; the "Laundry" room where women sort, fold, and wash cloths in a sink, near a large vat of boiling water; the "Ladies Kitchen" containing cupboards of dishware, a small cooking stove, and a rack of cooking utensils in which three women work; the "Wash Room" in which four men wash up at a trough of sinks; the "Drug Room" in which a pharmacist distills drugs for a soldier and women volunteer in front of a wall of medicinal bottles; a female volunteer at the counter of the "Store Room" attended by a man surrounded by several shelves packed with supplies; the "Bath Room" lined with tubs in which a soldier begins to undress; and female volunteers setting tables in the "Officers Dining Room.", Also includes two American flags draped over the borders of one of the views. The hospital provided care to the most seriously injured before their reassignment to other hospitals. Closed on August 11, 1865., Philadelphia on Stone, Library of Congress: PGA - Queen--Citizens ... (D size) [P&P], Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 15 C 581 b copy 1, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 15 C 581 b copy 2, HSP copy 2 missing blue tint stone.
- Creator
- Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 21-1886, artist
- Date
- [ca. 1862]
- Location
- Library of Congress | Prints and Photographs Division LOC PGA - Queen--Citizens ... (D size) [P&P]
- Title
- Episcopal Hospital (Late Leamy estate)
- Description
- View showing the hospital, also known as the "Bishop Potter Memorial House," opened in 1852 in the donated former residence of Philadelphia merchant John Leamy at Front Street and Lehigh Avenue in Kensington. A horse-drawn wagon departs from the hospital grounds along the landscaped oval driveway in front of the institution. Also shows two figures near the left wing of the building. The hospital, founded by Bishop Alonzo Potter as a religious institution, provided health services and religious services to individuals "without distinction of country, creed, or color" under the administration of church communicants. Residence served as the hospital until the completion of a new building at the site in 1862., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 211, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bd 61 P 53 #88, p. 27, Free Library of Philadelphia: Jackson Collection - J70, Part of an album of "Philadelphia Views."
- Creator
- Schell, Francis H., 1834-1909, artist
- Date
- [ca. 1858]
- Location
- Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bd 61 P 53 #88, p. 27
- Title
- Union Volunteer Refreshment Saloon, of Philadelphia. [graphic] : Being the first institution of the kind in the United States. Organized, May 27th. 1861 / J. Queen, del. & lith.
- Description
- Union Volunteer Refreshment Committee's blindstamp on recto., Detailed inscription by Fales about the history of the saloon on recto. Transcription available at repository., Manuscript note on recto: "John A. McAllister Esq. with the kind regards of Saml B. Fales, Phila. Nov. 24th, 1866." Fales served on the Union Volunteer Refreshment Committee as correspondence secretary and financial agent, and became the committee's main fundraiser., Lively scene containing a view of the two hospitals, refreshment stand, and other buildings of the Refreshment Saloon located near the Navy Yard at Swanson and Washington Avenues. Depicts a large crowd gathered to watch the arrival and departure of Union troops in November of 1863. Arriving soldiers march past the cannon, known as "Fort Brown," fired to forewarn saloon volunteers of the forthcoming arrival of troops. Departing soldiers board a Philadelphia, Wilmington, & Baltimore railroad car for the South. American flags dot the landscape. Crowd includes a band and an African American man. Contains the names of committee members and volunteers below the image. Situated at the transportation hub between the North and the South on land leased en gratis from the Philadelphia, Wilmington & Baltimore Railroad, the Saloon was a volunteer relief agency providing meals, hospital care, washing, sleeping, and writing facilities to military personnel, refugees, and freedmen. It served over 800,000 men, 1,025,000 meals before closing on December 1, 1865.
- Creator
- Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 21-1886 lithographer., creator
- Date
- [1863]
- Location
- http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W412.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. **W412 [5778.F]
- Title
- American Academy of Music Director, C. Anschutz Business agent, Adolph Birgfeld Positively last appearance of the German Opera Troupe Saturday eve'g, Jan. 31, '63, grand gala opera night for the sole benefit of the Citizens' Volunteer Hospital: corner of Washington Avenue and Broad Street. Czar and Carpenter Grand comic opera, in 3 acts, by A. Lortzing. ... Doors open at 7 o'clock. Opera commences at 8. Prices of admission, one dollar Seats reserved without extra charge. Family circle, 50 cents Amphitheatre, 25 cents Seats can be secured at once, at the Academy of Music, and Gould's Music Store, corner of Chestnut and 7th Streets. Tickets of admission also to be had at Mr. Risley's, Continental Hotel, P.W. Hazzard's Book Store, G. Andre & Co's Music Store, and at the hospital
- Description
- Printed area, including double-rule border, measures 42.3 x 16.6 cm., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
- Creator
- American Academy of Music (Philadelphia, Pa.)
- Date
- [1863]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare PB Phi Aca Mus 1863 5778.F.42a (McAllister)
- Title
- Mower General Hospital, Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia
- Description
- Series of views showing interiors and exteriors of the Civil War Army hospital. Photographs show the entrance to the hospital; the administration building; parade grounds; quarters of the surgeon in charge; guard house and lecture room; the water tank at Ardleigh Street; views looking south from the observatory tower located on the administration building; the cooking department; a hospital ward; the general office; and a corridor. Views include an observation deck; a fire brigade during a drill; cooking staff; office clerks; patients; and soldiers traversing the grounds., Eighteen of the images contain photographer's imprint on mount., Eighteen of the images contain manuscript note on verso: Chestnut Hill Hospital., Stereographs on yellow mounts with square corners., Five of the images originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War Views, Places, and Events and a Hart, Phillips, McAllister Civil War scrapbook., Described in Rules and special orders of the Mower United States Army and General Hospital (Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1865). (Am 1865 Phi Mow,15730.D)., See transcription of Coleman Sellers Letterbook, entry August 15, 1863, John Moran research file., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Mower General Hospital, built in 1862 after the designs of Philadelphia architect John McArthur, Jr. between Stenton, Germantown, Springfield and Abington avenues opposite the Chestnut Hill track of the Reading Railroad (7900-8000 blocks Stenton Avenue) received injured soldiers transported directly from the battlefield between January 1863 - May 1865. The hospital, designed as a pavilion to control the spread of infection, consisted of several hospital wards radiating from a central enclosed complex of administrative and utility buildings. Complex included the administration building, a chapel, post office, band-stand, food preparation shops and storage houses, a barber shop, dining room, and guard house. Hospital utilized fresh water from the Chestnut Hill water works, gas lighting, and indoor plumbing. Building was razed following the war.
- Creator
- Moran, John, 1831-1903, photographer
- Date
- ca. 1863
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Moran - Hospitals - M [(12)1540.F.9b; 5779.F.6e, 6k & 6i; P.8947.1-.18], Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Moran - Hospitals [5779.F.14d; P.8464.24; P.8464.29; P.8992.24]
- Title
- McClellan Hospital, ward 14
- Description
- Shows a heavily decorated patient ward at the Civil War hospital established in February 1863 at Germantown Avenue and Cayuga Street in Nicetown. Two rows of recovering soldiers seated next to their beds line both sides of the ward. Decorations include streamers, flags, lace bedspreads, flowers, framed pictures, and patriotic statements of affirmation painted on the walls. Also shows a row of heaters down the middle of the floor., Title from manuscript note on verso., Attributed to John Moran., Distributor's label pasted on verso: From M.S. Hagaman's photograph & ivorytype rooms, No. 936 Arch Street, Philadelphia., Yellow mount with square corners., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Hagaman operated from 936 Arch Street from 1863 to 1868., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
- Creator
- Moran, John, 1831-1903, photographer
- Date
- ca. 1863
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Moran - McClellan [P.8979.11]
- Title
- Christ Church Hospital
- Description
- Exterior view of front facade of hospital building constructed 1856-1861 after designs by John M. Gries at 2100 North Forty-ninth Street. Building adorned with Gothic details, including narrow pointed arched windows, gable roofs, pinnacles and spires. A carriage drives away from the front entrance of the home along the same path where pedestrians stroll the grounds. Founded in 1772 by Dr. John Kearsley to support poor and widowed women of the Church of England., Published in Edward W. Clark's A Record of the Inscriptions of the Tablets and Grave-Stones in the Burial-Grounds of Christ Church, Philadelphia (Philadelphia: Collins, printer, 705 Jayne Street, 1864), opposite page 85., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 119, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Library Company of Philadelphia: in Uy8 96795.D., Historical Society of Pennsylvania:
- Creator
- Tholey, Charles P., d. 1898, artist
- Date
- [1864]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W63 [Uy8 96795.D.85a]
- Title
- View of the Union Volunteer Refreshment Saloon, Philadelphia, where over 300,000 Union soldiers have been fed. [graphic] / Schell del; Adrian - Probasco sc.
- Description
- Signature of Corresponding Secretary inscribed on recto: S.B. Fales., Inscribed on recto of 5778.F.8c: Organized May 27th 1861 - finally closed Dec. 1st 1865 - torn down Jany 3, 1866 - 1,025,000 meals furnished to soldiers, sailors, freedmen & c. SBF, Inscribed on recto of P.2006.1: John Mcallister Jr. with regards of Samuel B. Fales. Organized May 27th 1861 - finally closed Dec. 1st 1865 - torn down Jany 3, 1866 - 1,025,000 meals furnished to soldiers, sailors, freedmen & c. SBF, Created postfreeze., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of materials related to the Cooper Shop and Union Volunteer Saloons and Hospitals., Exterior view showing heavy street activity in front of the saloon and hospital of the volunteer relief agency located near the Navy Yard at Swanson and Washington Avenues. A Philadelphia, Wilmington & Baltimore Railroad train arrives on the grounds, soldiers line up to enter the saloon, fire company wagons being used as ambulances pass in the streets; and a crowd of men and women stand near a policeman. Contains the names of committee officers and members below the image. Situated at the transportation hub between the North and the South on land leased en gratis from the Philadelphia, Wilmington & Baltimore Railroad, the agency provided meals, hospital care, washing, sleeping, and writing facilities to military personnel, refugees, and freedmen. It served over 800,000 men, 1,025,000 meals before closing.
- Creator
- Adrian & Probasco, engraver., creator, Schell, Francis H., 1834-1909, delineator., creator
- Date
- [ca. 1862]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. Ph Pr - 11x14 - Associations [5778.F.8c; 9a; 30b; P.2006.1.27]
- Title
- Masonic Temple and M.E. Church, Phila
- Description
- View looking south showing buildings on the east side of Broad Street near Arch Street, including the Surgical Institute, Eastern Division (northeast corner of Broad and Arch Streets), the Arch Street Methodist Episcopal Church (1344-48 Arch, built 1869-70, Addison Hutton, architect) and Masonic Temple (1-33 North Broad, built 1868-73, James H. Windrim, architect). In the foreground, an unhitched coach and dray sit on Broad Street near a utility pole and ladder. The first floor skeleton of City Hall is partially visible in the background., Title on negative., Publisher's imprint on mount., Yellow curved mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Robert M. Vogel.
- Date
- [ca. 1876]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - De Young's Palace Dollar Store [P.9047.9]
- Title
- First plate of four subjects for Birch's Philadelphia
- Description
- Montage of four titled vignette views showing the Philadelphia landmarks: "Franklin Library in 1800" (Library Hall) at Fifth and Library streets; "Pennsylvania Hospital in 1800" on Pine Street between Eighth and Ninth streets; "Swedes Church Southwark" (Gloria Dei); and "High St. Market House in 1800" above Second Street. Depicts the exterior of the library, hospital, and church, and the interior of the busy market shed., Proof copy., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
- Creator
- Birch, William Russell, 1755-1834
- Date
- [1828]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Birch's views [Sn 41a/P.2276.76]
- Title
- Union Volunteer Refreshment Saloon, of Philadelphia Being the first institution of the kind in the United States. Organized, May 27th. 1861
- Description
- Lively scene containing a view of the two hospitals, refreshment stand, and other buildings of the Refreshment Saloon located near the Navy Yard at Swanson and Washington Avenues. Depicts a large crowd gathered to watch the arrival and departure of Union troops in November of 1863. Arriving soldiers march past the cannon, known as "Fort Brown," fired to forewarn saloon volunteers of the forthcoming arrival of troops. Departing soldiers board a Philadelphia, Wilmington, & Baltimore railroad car for the South. American flags dot the landscape. Crowd includes a band and an African American man. Contains the names of committee members and volunteers below the image. Situated at the transportation hub between the North and the South on land leased en gratis from the Philadelphia, Wilmington & Baltimore Railroad, the Saloon was a volunteer relief agency providing meals, hospital care, washing, sleeping, and writing facilities to military personnel, freedom seekers. It served over 800,000 men, 1,025,000 meals before closing on December 1, 1865., Union Volunteer Refreshment Committee's blindstamp on recto., Title from item., Date inferred from content., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 771, Detailed inscription by Fales about the history of the saloon on recto. Transcription available at repository., Manuscript note on recto of 5778.F Union Volunteer: "John A. McAllister Esq. with the kind regards of Saml B. Fales, Phila. Nov. 24th, 1866." Fales served on the Union Volunteer Refreshment Committee as correspondence secretary and financial agent, and became the committee's main fundraiser., Manuscript note on recto of P.2023.2: Mr. McNally with the compliments of Samuel B. Fales, No. 707 Vine St. Philadelphia., Description revised 2023., Access points revised 2021., P.2023.2 gift of Philadelphia Magazine., Digital image shows 5778.F Union Volunteer., Queen was a premier Philadelphia lithographer and pioneer chromolithographer known for his attention to detail, who served in the Civil War militia from 1862 until 1863, and created several lithographs with Civil War subjects, including views of and contribution certificates for the city's relief institutions.
- Creator
- Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 21-1886, artist
- Date
- [1863]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **W412 [5778.F Union Volunteer and P.2023.2]
- Title
- [Chamberlin weather strips trade cards]
- Description
- Series of illustrated trade cards featuring exterior views of buildings constructed with Chamberlin weather strips, including "Shriner's Hospital, Philadelphia, Pa.," "Gillingham & Hynes built terraces, Philadelphia, Pa.," and "Children's Hospital, Pittsburgh, Pa." Trade cards also contain the names of the architects and contractors, including Phillip H. Johnson and Raymond A. Raff Co. (Shriner's Hospital, 1926); Gillingham & Hynes (terraces); and York & Sawyer (Pittsburgh, Pa.), E.P. Mellon (New York), and W. T. Grange Construction Co. (Pittsburgh's Children's Hospital). Views surrounded by ornate border and flanked by vignettes of Chamberlin products, including sill and side strips for sliding windows; interlocking center for in-opening casements; brass sill--outopening casements; Chamberlin at D.H. sill; interlocking equipment for outside transoms; and corrugation windows., Title supplied by cataloger., Playing card designs printed on versos., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
- Date
- [ca. 1930]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Chamberlin [P.9450.6-8]
- Title
- Photograph Album of Philadelphia and Vicinity
- Description
- Photograph album compiled by Philadelphia photographer Robert Newell containing views by the photographer and his peers, including F. De. B. Richards. Images depict major city landmarks and views of Fairmount Park, including benevolent, educational and financial institutions, historic sites, residences, churches and meetinghouses, bridges, and hotels and taverns. Sites documented include Broad Street (Civil War) Hospital; Foster Home (Twenty-Fourth and Poplar); Germantown Academy; the former bookstore and printing office of William Young (200-204 Chestnut); Landing Avenue during alterations (East bank of Schuylkill); Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (old and new); Carpenters Hall; Independence Hall; Academy of Music; Merchants' Exchange; Girard, Farmers', Mechanics', Pennsylvania, and Fourth National banks; Bartram's, Keene, and Rittenhouse mansions; Woodford residence (Fairmount Park); Washington's residence (Germantown); Womrath property, "where the first 4th of July" was celebrated" (4216 Frankford); Oldest house in Lansdown" (West Fairmount Park); Old Farm house (Broad and Oxford); St. Judes Episcopal church; Fairmount Water Works, and boat houses and ice houses along the Schuylkill; Cedar Hill, Laurel Hill and Woodlands cemeteries; Columbia, Old Callowhill Street, Girard Avenue, and New York Connecting Railroad bridges; Continental, Valley Green, Maple Spring, Markley's and Cole's hotels; and "Punch Bowl" (2100 Broad), "Abbey" (Hunting Park and Wissahickon Aves), Old Buck? (Lancaster Pike) and Old Grey's Ferry taverns.
- Title
- Scrapbook of Prints
- Description
- Scrapbook containing primarily engraved periodical illustrations issued between circa 1820 and 1852 from American publications, including "Wellman's Literary Miscellany" and "Sartain's Magazine." Illustrations predominantly depict sentimental, religious, and genre views, many after European paintings, and often including children and animals, predominantly dogs.
- Title
- [Scrapbook of prints]
- Description
- Scrapbook containing primarily engraved periodical illustrations issued between circa 1820 and 1852 from American publications, including "Wellman's Literary Miscellany" and "Sartain's Magazine." Illustrations predominantly depict sentimental, religious, and genre views, many after European paintings, and often including children and animals, predominantly dogs. Titles include The Village School; Sunday Morning; Samuel & Eli; The Invasion; Early Piety; Sunday Morning; Calumet, or the Christian Indian; Christ Healing the Sick; The Child and the Mastiff; The Reaper's Friend; Hawk and Dove; The Young Tutors; The Farmer's Daughter; Rural Life (Wellman's Literary Miscellany); Innocence and Roguery; The Magic Lake, a scene from The Pilgrim of Love, The Valley of Repose, and The Exiles at Babylon from Sartain's Magazine; The First Friend; and The Sermon on the Mount. Other illustrations, some vignette on mauve-colored paper, depict Philadelphia and regional landmarks, including Schuylkill Near Flat Rock; Gilpin Mills on the Brandywine; Andalusia, the seat of Nicholas Biddle, Esq.; The Residence of the Count de Survilliers (i.e., Joseph Bonaparte) Bordentown; Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia; and Pennsylvania Hospital for the Insane. Also includes a tipped in miniature, embossed die cut of a vase of flowers., Patterned red paper binding., Artists and engravers include William Redmore Bigg; Thomas Birch; Hugh Bridport; J. G. Chapman; Thomas Doughty; George B. Ellis; Jean Augustin Franquelin; Hendemann; Illman & Sons; David G. Johnson; T. Kelley; J. B. Longacre; John B. Neagle; J. Holmes; F. Humphrys; W. Mason; John McArthur; Frederick Richard Pickersgill; J. W. Steel; Stuart & Fowler; W. E. Tucker; Henry Warren; Welch & Walter; Benjamin West; and Franz Winterhalter., Printers and publishers include Benjamin Rogers and Key & Biddle., Contains hand-colored title page printed "On stone by P.S. Duval's Lithy. Phila." and titled "Manchester Print Works. I. P. Wendell & Co. Philadelphia.", Some prints identified with title written in manuscript below image., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Housed in phase box., Contains several blank pages, many with glue marks.
- Date
- [ca. 1820-ca. 1852]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Scrapbook [P.9844.54]
- Title
- Photograph album of Philadelphia and vicinity
- Description
- Photograph album compiled by Philadelphia photographer Robert Newell containing views by the photographer and his peers, including F. De. B. Richards. Images depict major city landmarks and views of Fairmount Park, including benevolent, educational and financial institutions, historic sites, residences, churches and meetinghouses, bridges, and hotels and taverns. Sites documented include Broad Street (Civil War) Hospital; Foster Home (Twenty-Fourth and Poplar); Germantown Academy; the former bookstore and printing office of William Young (200-204 Chestnut); Landing Avenue during alterations (East bank of Schuylkill); Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (old and new); Carpenters Hall; Independence Hall; Academy of Music; Merchants' Exchange; Girard, Farmers', Mechanics', Pennsylvania, and Fourth National banks; Bartram's, Keene, and Rittenhouse mansions; Woodford residence (Fairmount Park); Washington's residence (Germantown); Womrath property, "where the first 4th of July" was celebrated" (4216 Frankford); Oldest house in Lansdown" (West Fairmount Park); Old Farm house (Broad and Oxford); St. Judes Episcopal church; Fairmount Water Works, and boat houses and ice houses along the Schuylkill; Cedar Hill, Laurel Hill and Woodlands cemeteries; Columbia, Old Callowhill Street, Girard Avenue, and New York Connecting Railroad bridges; Continental, Valley Green, Maple Spring, Markley's and Cole's hotels; and "Punch Bowl" (2100 Broad), "Abbey" (Hunting Park and Wissahickon Aves), Old Buck? (Lancaster Pike) and Old Grey's Ferry taverns., Images also include neighboring and tenant businesses, including Charles Oakford & Sons, hats, Continental Hotel (29a), John C. Clark & Sons, stationers and printers, L. S. Boyer & Co., coal, and a "Shaving and Hair Cutting Emporium," on 228-232 South Third (29b), and a real estate office, 524 Arch (45b); street vendors (74b); and broadsides displayed on buildings and walls (49b & 79b). Several of the Fairmount views also show visitors, patrons to refreshment saloons, and park guards. Scrapbook also contains a small number of photographic reproductions of engravings, including one of Masonic Hall (700 block Chestnut) and images reproduced in R. Newell & Son's "Old Landmark" series (1876), including Old Swede's Church, Friends Almshouse, and Robert Morris Hotel., Title supplied by cataloger., Some of the contents identified by inscriptions on album pages. Inscriptions annotated and corrected in different hand., Texts from R. Newell & Son's "Old Landmark" series tipped in between album pages., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Images from album reproduced in The Print and Photograph Department of the Library Company of Philadelphia's Center City Philadelphia in the 19th century (Portsmouth, N.H.: Arcadia Publishing, 2006)., Album reformatted for conservation. Housed in two phase boxes, including binding and index., Robert Newell, the prominent Philadelphia commercial photographer operated a studio from circa 1855 to 1900. His firm, which originally specialized in portraiture, later focused on "Artistic Business and Landscape Photographs" and was reorganized as R. Newell & Son circa 1872. In 1876, the studio (Robert and Henry Newell) issued a series of six viewbooks under the title "Old Landmarks & Relics of Philadelphia." Newell also produced series of stereographs during the 1860s depicting commercial streets, the volunteer fire companies, and views of Fairmount Park and local cemeteries, as well as invented acid proof photographic ware in the 1870s.
- Creator
- Newell, Robert, 1822-1897
- Date
- ca. 1860-ca. 1900
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *albums (flat) [P.9062]
- Title
- Views of Philadelphia
- Description
- Collection of prints from the various editions and restrikes of Birch's "Views of Philadelphia," originally published in 1800 as The City of Philadelphia, in the State of Pennsylvania North America; as it appeared in the year 1800. Four editions of the views, purchased through subscription and totaling 44 unique plates including a map of the city and title page with vignette, were published by William Birch in Philadelphia from 1800 until 1828. First and largest edition contained 29 plates, the pictorial views drawn by Thomas Birch and engraved by Samuel Seymour between 1798 and 1800; with the map and title page executed by script engraver William Barker. Bookseller Robert Campbell is listed as a seller on many of these plates, but appears to have been disassociated with the project before publication of the bound volume. Second edition of 22 plates was published in 1804. Third edition of 14 plates was published in 1809. Fourth edition of 12 plates was published between 1827 and 1828. The first and second edition were printed by Philadelphia printer, Richard Folwell. The later editions, predominately completed by William Birch alone, contained reissues of selected plates from the first edition as well as new engravings of prominent city structures erected after 1800. In the 1840s restrikes of five plates were produced by bookseller Robert Desilver, and in the 1860s, twelve by the antiquarian John McAllister, Jr; many of the restrikes originally published in the fourth edition. Collection also contains the second edition copper plate of the Bank of Pennsylvania, and the fourth edition copper plate of The Late Theatre in Chestnut Street., Series of late 18th and early 19th-century views of principal sections of the city of Philadelphia including primary streets, government buildings, local landmarks, and financial, religious, educational, and benevolent institutions. The series, the first of its kind in the United States, was created to attract new citizens and to illustrate to an international audience the vitality of the nation's premiere city. The views focus on structures, but also contain lively depictions of daily street life in Philadelphia. Plates depict Philadelphia's Delaware River port with the Penn Treaty Tree; several street views including Arch Street, High (Market) Street, and Third Street; city markets; city banks, such as the Bank of the U.S.; the State House (Independence Hall); Congress Hall; prominent churches, such as Christ Church; Pennsylvania Hospital; Library and Surgeon's Hall; Chestnut Street Theatre; the Alms House; Walnut Street Jail; the Water-Works; and the Schuylkill Bridge., See S. Robert Teitelman's Birch's views of Philadelphia. (Philadelphia: The Free Library of Philadelphia, 1982, rev. 2000)., Snyder, "William Birch: His Philadelphia views," The Pennsylvania magazine of history and biography 73 (July, 1949), p. 271-315., Snyder, "Birch's Philadelphia views: New discoveries," The Pennsylvania magazine of history and biography 88 (April, 1964), p. 164-173., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., William Birch, trained in England, was a Philadelphia engraver, miniaturist, and enamel painter. He also engraved and published in 1804 "The Country Seats of the United States of North America."
- Creator
- Birch, William Russell, 1755-1834
- Date
- 1800-1860, bulk 1800
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Birch's views [Sn 1 - Sn 43]
- Title
- [Group portrait photograph of fourteen African American nurses and nursing students outside of Dr. J. H. Mudgett’s Private Hospital and Training School for Nurses, 2030 N. 13th Street, Philadelphia]
- Description
- Group portrait depicts the women, including Helen Waller, posed in three rows on the steps outside the entryway to the hospital and training school. Five woman stand in a line in the top and bottom rows and four women stand in a line in the middle row. The women hold their arms to their sides or behind them and have plain expressions. The women in the bottom row wear white, ankle-length dresses with long sleeves and collars, white stockings, and white shoes with heels. They also wear nurses caps with the one of the woman in the middle trimmed with a thin black stripe along the edge, possibly “Miss Harris, super-intendant of the nurses.” The women in the upper rows wear white, long-sleeved shirts, white apron dresses, and nurses caps. The sign naming the hospital and school adorning the building is partially visible in the right. The figure who is Helen Waller, a 1919 graduate of the hospital is not known, but likely one of the women in the first row., Dr. J. H. Mudgett’s Private Hospital and Training School for Nurses was established by New Hampshire-born white (per census records) physician John H. Mudgett and chartered in 1919. Mudgett served as the medical director of surgery. In 1921, the school was one of a number of nursing schools advertised in the “Evening Public Ledger” as offering “Free Tuition, Board, Lodging, and a Nominal Fee” to be trained as a nurse. Mudgett, graduated Dartmouth Medical School in 1896 and resided in Philadelphia as a physician by circa 1905. By 1925, he was listed as only a physician with no listing for the training school. Mudgett, a member of the First African Baptist Church, died in 1945. At the time of his death he was in a multiracial marriage with Adeline Mudgett (1889-1958), a former dressmaker. His race on his death certificate had been altered from white to “colored.” Helen Waller (1897-1925) was one of the first nurse graduates of Mudgett’s Hospital in 1919. By 1924, she worked as a child hygiene nurse before her death in 1925 from tuberculosis., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from article about “Mudgett’s Hospital Has Its First Commencement,” Philadelphia Tribune, July 19, 1919., Name of photographer from photographer's stamp on verso., Manuscript note on verso: Helen Waller, 2020 Turner Street., See also complementary group portrait photographs - Education - M [P.2022.5.2 & 3].
- Creator
- Paul, Dan E., photographer
- Date
- [1919]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *group portrait photographs - education - Mudgett's Hospital [P.2022.5.1]
- Title
- [Group portrait photograph of Dr. Mudgett and four African American physicians outside of Dr. J. H. Mudgett’s Private Hospital and Training School for Nurses, 2030 N. 13th Street, Philadelphia]
- Description
- Group portrait depicts Dr. John Herbert Mudgett and four African American physicians, posed, standing and seated, on the steps outside the entryway to the hospital and training school. In the right, two physicians, attired in dark-colored suits and ties, stand next to Mudgett and the other men seated on the stairs. One of the physicians also wears a mustache. They look past the photographer. In the center, Mudgett, grey-haired, wearing glasses, and attired in a white suit with bow tie, sits on the outer edge of the middle stair. He looks past the photographer and his hands are clasped and rest in his lap. To his right, another two physicians sit next to him on the stairs. They are attired in dark-colored suits with either a tie or bow tie. One physician wears glasses. They rest their hands and/or arms on the upper part of their bent legs. They look at the photographer. The visible shoes of the men are shined, except Mudgett’s which are scuffed. View also shows a boot scraper near the foot of Mudgett, at the base of the steps, and in the right, the sign reading "Dr. Mudgett’s Private Hospital" adorning the wall of the building., Dr. J. H. Mudgett’s Private Hospital and Training School for Nurses was established by New Hampshire-born white (per census records) physician John H. Mudgett and chartered in 1919. Mudgett served as the medical director of surgery. In 1921, the school was one of a number of nursing schools advertised in the "Evening Public Ledger" as offering "Free Tuition, Board, Lodging, and a Nominal Fee" to be trained as a nurse. Mudgett, graduated Dartmouth Medical School in 1896 and resided in Philadelphia as a physician by circa 1905. By 1925, he was listed as only a physician with no listing for the training school. Mudgett, a member of the First African Baptist Church, died in 1945. At the time of his death he was in a multiracial marriage with Adeline Mudgett (1889-1958), a former dressmaker. His race on his death certificate had been altered from white to “colored.”, Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from photograph with complementary content and article about “Mudgett’s Hospital Has Its First Commencement,” Philadelphia Tribune, July 19, 1919., Name of photographer from photographer's stamp on verso., Manuscript note on verso: Helen Waller. Helen Waller (1897-1925) was one of the first nurse graduates of Mudgett’s Hospital in 1919. By 1924, she worked as a child hygiene nurse before her death in 1925 from tuberculosis., See also complementary group portrait photographs - Education - M [P.2022.5.2 & 3].
- Creator
- Paul, Dan E., photographer
- Date
- [1919]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *group portrait photographs - education - Mudgett's Hospital [P.2022.5.2]
- Title
- [View of operating room with Dr. J.H. Mudgett and African American men physicians and African American women nurses at a surgical procedure at Dr. J. H. Mudgett’s Private Hospital and Training School for Nurses, 2030 N. 13th Street, Philadelphia]
- Description
- View shows Dr. John Herbert Mudgett and African American physicians and nurses surrounding an African American person lying on a surgical gurney and covered in surgical drapes in an operating room. Mudgett, center and looking at the camera, and attired in a surgical cap and gown, rests his hands on the patient. To his right stands a nurse, attired in a cap and a white surgical gown who looks with a side glance at the camera. To her right, a man anesthesiologist, in right profile, is seated, and holds his hands above the face of the patient. In the right foreground, two men physicians, attired in surgical caps and gowns stand over and have their hands on the patient. One man looks at the patient and the other man looks at the camera. In the left, center background, possibly Miss Harris, super-intendant of the nurses, attired in a striped, nurse's cap looks over the shoulder of Mudgett. In the far right background, a nurse attired in a surgical cap and gown looks, with a slight frown, at the camera. The face and head of another nurse wearing a surgical cap is seen behind her. View also includes two uncovered windows in the background., Dr. J. H. Mudgett’s Private Hospital and Training School for Nurses was established by New Hampshire-born white (per census records) physician John H. Mudgett and chartered in 1919. Mudgett served as the medical director of surgery. In 1921, the school was one of a number of nursing schools advertised in the “Evening Public Ledger” as offering "Free Tuition, Board, Lodging, and a Nominal Fee" to be trained as a nurse. Mudgett, graduated Dartmouth Medical School in 1896 and resided in Philadelphia as a physician by circa 1905. By 1925, he was listed as only a physician with no listing for the training school. Mudgett, a member of the First African Baptist Church, died in 1945. At the time of his death he was in a multiracial marriage with Adeline Mudgett (1889-1958), a former dressmaker. His race on his death certificate had been altered from white to "colored.", Title supplied by cataloger., Name of attributed photographer from complementary photographs., Date inferred from photographs with complementary content and article about "Mudgett’s Hospital Has Its First Commencement," Philadelphia Tribune, July 19, 1919., See also complementary group portrait photographs - Education - M [P.2022.5.1 & 2].
- Creator
- Paul, Dan E., photographer
- Date
- [1919]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *group portrait photographs - education - Mudgett's Hospital [P.2022.5.3]
- Title
- The Game of Philadelphia Buildings Flashcards
- Description
- Card game containing fifty-three cards depicting landmarks and historic and well-known sites in the city.