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Title: United States Naval Hospital postcards
Description: Exterior views of the United States Naval Hospital built by Karcher & Smith in 1929-1933. Demolished in 2001., Divided backs., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: c1937
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department LCP postcards - Hospitals, asylums and homes - [P.9048.285 - 286]

Title: Jefferson Hospital and annex, Philadelphia, Pa
Description: Exterior view looking east of the Samuel Gustine Thompson Memorial Annex at the southeast corner of Sansom and Clifton Streets, built in 1922-1924 by John T. Windrim in honor of William E. Thompson, who had been one of the trustees of Jefferson Hospital. Engineers Stone & Webster supervised the construction of the 17 story private ward building. New annex building replaced the nurses' home at 1020 Sansom Street., Numbered 117 and 121330 on recto., Sheet number: 108A04., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Brightbill, George M., collector
Date: ca. 1925
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Hospitals - 108]

Title: Jewish Hospital, York & Tabor Roads, Philadelphia, Pa
Description: Exterior view of the Home for Aged and Infirm Israelites constructed in 1888 by Furness, Evans & Co. on the campus of the Jewish Hospital., Sheet number: 108A04., Divided back., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Brightbill, George M., collector
Date: ca. 1910
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Hospitals - 108]

Title: Medico-Chirurgical Hospital postcards
Description: Depicts exterior views of the Medico-Chirurgical College and Hospital buildings. Depicts an aerial view of the campus on Cherry Street between 17th and 18th Streets showing (from left to right) the maternity and children's hospital; the clinical amphitheatre; the main hospital building; the power house; college hall and the new dispensary and laboratory building. Also includes more detailed images of the main hospital building and the laboratory building., Contains 1 postcard printed in color and 3 printed in black and white., The Orphan Asylum and the Home for Indigent Widows occupied the site before the Medico-Chirurgical College acquired the property circa 1890. The original Medico-Chirurgical hospital building was located in the reconstructed Orphan's Asylum built by William Strickland after a devastating fire destroyed the original building in 1822., Sheet numbers: 108A05 and 108B04., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Brightbill, George M., collector
Date: 1900-1915
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Hospitals - 108]

Title: Misericordia Hospital postcards
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., 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.
Creator: Brightbill, George M., collector
Date: 1920-1940
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Hospitals - 108]

Title: St. Joseph's Hospital postcards
Description: Exterior views of hospital founded in 1849 to care for the community of Irish immigrants in Philadelphia, who fled from the famine in Ireland. The hospital began in a three story home at the corner of 16th Street and Girard Avenue. Considered the oldest Catholic hospital in Philadelphia., Contains 1 postcard printed in color and 1 printed in black and white., Sheet numbers: 108A08 and 108B06., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Brightbill, George M., collector
Date: 1905-1910
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Hospitals - 108]

Title: Pennsylvania Hospital. [graphic]
Description: 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., Snyder, Martin. "J.C. Wild and His Philadelphia Views," Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography (January 1953, Vol. LXXXVII), p. 32-75., 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.
Creator: Wild, J. C. (John Caspar), ca. 1804-1846, artist., creator
Date: c1840, 1848.
Location: http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W275-3.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. W275 [P.2163]

Title: "The Kenwood," Chestnut Hill, Pa
Description: Depicts a car parked in front of The Kenwood, a mental sanatorium in Chestnut Hill. The building in the foreground was constructed in 1884 after designs by George Simpson. This newer building sits adjacent to the original house on the property (left), built circa 1860 as a private residence, then altered to The Eldon Hotel, one of three resort hotels in Chestnut Hill. The hotel occupied the property until 1910, when it was converted to the Kenwood mental sanatorium., Real photo. Divided back. Post marked 1912., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: ca. 1912
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department LCP postcards - Hospitals, asylums and homes - [P.9933.11]

Title: Mary J. Drexel Home postcards
Description: Exterior views of the front facade and entrance to the Mary J. Drexel Home at South College and Corinthian Avenues. Built in 1888 on the campus of Lankenau Hospital to house the deaconesses' home, children's hospital, home for the elderly and school for girls., About half (7 out of 15) postcards issued by The Rotograph Co., New York., Sheet numbers: 138A02, 138A03, 138B03, 138B04 and 138B05., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Brightbill, George M., collector
Date: 1900-1910
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Organizations (By Name) - 138]

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: Plan of U.S. Military Hospital at Edgewood Chestnut Hill Penna. [graphic] / John McArthur Jr. Archt, No. 209 So. Sixth St. Phia.
Description: Eleven of twelve drawings inscribed on verso: Book 57 B.598., 5791.F.5 inscribed October 3, 1863., 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)., Series of architectural drawings including a site plan and section plans of the hospital facility. Site plan includes an inset of the "Plan of iron trucks for conveying food to wards made of iron wire gage" and depictions of the surrounding roads, Chestnut Hill Railroad, store depot, and depot for patients. Also contains annotations about the locations of drain pipes, sewage pipes, and gas, fire, and water mains. Section plans depict the first and second stories of the central building, operating rooms, first and second stories of the medical department; stewards apartment, kitchen, prison ward, ward for 60 beds, section of ventilators, and a corridor. Plans include sky lights, bathrooms, sleeping rooms, dining rooms, waiting rooms, barracks, wash rooms, scullery, cauldrons, stoves, sinks, pantries, knapsack room, offices, apothecary shop, and post mortem room. Plan of operating rooms also contains a key to symbols representing gas burners. Plan of first story of the medical department also contains a design for the shelving of the apothecary shop. Section plans include scale 4 ft to 1 inch.
Creator: McArthur, John, 1823-1890, architect., creator
Date: 1861-1863.
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. **architectural drawings - McArthur [5791.F.1-3; 5-13]

Title: Citizens Volunteer Hospital Association of Philadelphia. Instituted, September 5th 1862. [graphic] / From nature by Jas. Queen.
Description: Location: Broad St. and Washington Ave., northeast corner., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image., Historical Society of Pennsylvania:
Creator: Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 21-1886 lithographer., creator
Date: ca. 1865.
Location: http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W067.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. **W67 [P.8650]

Title: Citizens Volunteer Hospital. Corner of Broad St. and Washington Avenue. [graphic] / Drawn & lith. by James Queen, Philada.
Description: Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 15 C 581, Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of material concerning Civil War volunteer saloons and hospitals., 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.
Creator: Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 21-1886, lithographer., creator
Date: [1862]
Location: http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W068.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *W68 [5778.F]

Title: Citizens Volunteer Hospital. Corner of Broad St. and Washington Avenue. [graphic] / Drawn & lith. by James Queen, Philada.
Description: Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 15 C 581, Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of material concerning Civil War volunteer saloons and hospitals., 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.
Creator: Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 21-1886, lithographer., creator
Date: [1862]
Location: http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W068.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *W68 [5778.F]

Title: Citizens Volunteer Hospital Association of Philadelphia. Instituted, September 5th 1862. [graphic] / From nature by Jas. Queen.
Description: Location: Broad St. and Washington Ave., northeast corner., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image., Historical Society of Pennsylvania:
Creator: Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 21-1886 lithographer., creator
Date: ca. 1865.
Location: http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W067.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. **W67 [P.8650]

Title: Philadelphia College and Infirmary of Osteopathy, S.E. corner 19th and Spring Garden Streets, Philadelphia, Pa
Description: Exterior view of the college and hospital at the southeast corner of 19th and Spring Garden Streets. The college purchased the property in 1916 and commissioned Savery & Scheetz to design additions and alterations., Numbered 21428N on verso., Founded in 1898. Name changed to Philadelphia College of Osteopathy in 1921., Also identified as the Osteopathic Hospital of Philadelphia., Sheet number: 153B03., Divided back., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Brightbill, George M., collector
Date: ca. 1916
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Schools - Miscellaneous - 153]

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: Germantown Hospital postcards
Description: Exterior views., Contains 2 postcards printed in color and 1 printed in black and white., Sheet numbers: 100A02 and 100B04., Divided backs., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Brightbill, George M., collector
Date: ca. 1910
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Germantown - Buildings - 100]

Title: German Hospital postcards
Description: Exterior views of German Hospital building adjoining the Mary J. Drexel Home at Girard and Corinthian Avenues. Founded in 1860 to provide medical care to the German population in the area. Building in images constructed circa 1874. In 1917 name changed to Lankenau Hospital in honor of John Lankenau, one of the hospital's early presidents. The Mary J. Drexel Home, which can be seen in the background of some of the postcards, was built in 1888 and later housed the hospital's deaconesses' home, children's hospital, home for the elderly and a school for girls., Contains 8 postcards printed in color and 2 printed in black and white., Sheet numbers: 108A02, 108A03, 108A04, and 108B02., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Brightbill, George M., collector
Date: 1900-1915
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Hospitals - 108]

Title: Wills Eye Hospital postcards
Description: Exterior view of front facade of hospital built circa 1832 after designs by Thomas Ustick Walter. Also includes a collage of images depicting the interior of the hospital and staff tending to patients., Founded by James Wills, Jr. as "The Wills Hospital for the Relief of the Indigent Blind and Lame." The lot on Race Street was purchased for $20,000 and the cornerstone of the building laid in 1832., Sheet number: 108B07., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Brightbill, George M., collector
Date: 1905-1935
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Hospitals - 108]

Title: The Phipps Institute for Consumptives, 7th & Lombard Sts. Philadelphia, Pa
Description: Exterior view of institute looking northeast. Built in 1913. Founded by Henry C. Phipps as the Institutue for the Study, Treatment and Prevention of Tuberculosis., Numbered 539 on verso., Sheet number: 108A07., Divided back., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Brightbill, George M., collector
Date: ca. 1915
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Hospitals - 108]

Title: Christ Church Hospital, Philadelphia, Pa. -- Founded in 1772
Description: Exterior view of front facade of hospital built 1856-1861 after designs by John M. Gries. Founded in 1772 by Dr. John Kearsley to support poor and widowed women of the Church of England., Also known as the Kearsley Home., Sheet number: 108B01., Divided back. Post marked 1958., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Brightbill, George M., collector
Date: ca. 1958
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Hospitals - 108]

Title: Germantown Dispensary and Hospital, Germantown, Philadelphia
Description: Aerial views of the hospital complex. Designed by Cope & Stewardson. Completed 1897. Located at Chew and Penn Streets in Germantown., Negative numbers: 7149n, 7150n, 7155n, 7156n, 7157n, 7158n, 7160n, 7161n, 7162n.
Creator: Aero Service Corporation, photographer
Date: ca. 1926
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Aero Service [P.8990.7149n; P.8990.7150n; P.8990.7155-7158n; P.8990.7160n-7162n]

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: Jefferson Hospital, 10th & Walnut Streets, Philadelphia
Description: Aerial views of Jefferson Hospital and surrounding area., Negative numbers: P142, P143, P144, P145.
Creator: Aero Service Corporation, photographer
Date: December 31, 1930
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Aero Service [P.8990.P142-P145]

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: Friends Asylum for the Insane near Frankford. [graphic] / Doughty, del.
Description: Location: Roosevelt Blvd. at Adams Ave., Frankford., Frontispiece to Fifteenth Annual Report of the State of the Asylum for the Relief of Persons Deprived of the Use of their Reason, (Philadelphia: Printed by T.A. Conrad, corner Sixth and Cherry Streets, 1832). Report also contains "Map of the Asylum Farm" and "Groundfloor of the Asylum" printed on tissue by Childs & Inman Lithrs. Philadelphia., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image., Library Company of Philadelphia: in Am 1814 Phi Asy (box) 9092.O.11a., Historical Society of Pennsylvania:
Creator: Doughty, Thomas, 1793-1856 artist., creator
Date: [1832]
Location: http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W143.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. W143 [Am 1814 Phi Asy (box) 9092.O.11a]

Title: Friends' Asylum for the Insane near Frankford. [graphic] / From nature & on stone by G. Lehman.
Description: Published as the frontispiece of the annual reports of the asylum (entitled: ... Annual Report of the State of the Asylum for the Relief of Persons Deprived of the Use of Their Reason) from 1836 to 1840., Select link below for a digital image., Exterior view of the front of the almshouse founded by the Society of Friends in 1813 located in the Frankford section of Philadelphia.
Creator: Lehman, George, d. 1870, artist., creator
Date: [1836].
Location: http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W144.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. W144 [P.2049]

Title: Christ Church Hospital [graphic] / C. Th.
Description: Location: Forty-ninth St. at Monument Ave., 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., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image., Library Company of Philadelphia: in Uy8 96795.D., Historical Society of Pennsylvania:, Exterior view of front facade of hospital built 1856-1861 after designs by John M. Gries. Founded in 1772 by Dr. John Kearsley to support poor and widowed women of the Church of England.
Creator: Tholey, Charles P., d. 1898., creator
Date: [1864]
Location: http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W063.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. W63 [Uy8 96795.D]

Title: Hahnemann Hospital and Medical College postcards
Description: Exterior views of Hahnemann medical college and hospital building occupied circa 1885 after the Homeopathic Medical College merged with the Hospital of Philadelphia to create Hahnemann. This gothic structure was razed in 1928 to make way for a new 20 story hospital building., Contains 3 postcards printed in color and 2 printed in black and white., Sheet numbers: 108B03, 153A01A and 153A01B., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Brightbill, George M., collector
Date: 1905-1913
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Hospitals - 108] and [Schools - Miscellaneous - 153]

Title: The Philadelphia Home for Incurables postcards
Description: Contains images of The Philadelphia Home for Incurables at Belmont and Conshohocken Avenues. Includes views of Inglis House built in 1927 after designs by Ballinger Company, showing elderly women sitting near the circle in front of the building. Also depicts an interior view of Founders Hall., Sheet numbers: 138B15 and 138B16., Divided backs., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Brightbill, George M., collector
Date: ca. 1930
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Organizations (By Name) - 138]

Title: Byberry Hospital and Northeast Philadelphia
Description: Aerial views from high altitude. Includes original buildings of the Byberry Hopital complex constructed between 1906 and the mid-1920s in the Byberry or Somerton section of northeast Philadelphia. Established in 1907 as Philadelphia Hospital for Mental Diseases, it was renamed Philadelphia State Hospital when the state of Pennsylvania took over the operations in 1936. Closed in 1990, the buildings were demolished 2006-2008., Negative numbers: 20313s, 22518s, 22520s., Negative 20313 dated September 18, 1939.
Creator: Aero Service Corporation, photographer
Date: 1939-1941
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Aero Service [P.8890. 20313s; P.8990.22518s; P.8990.22520s]

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