Exterior view of Ely Building, constructed in 1829. Image shows Tenth Street facade after the 1845 alterations, designed by architect Napoleon LeBrun (1821-1901), in which a six-columned portico, entablature, pediment, and marble base were added. Building was demolished sometime between 1898 and 1907. Image includes shop of H. Hochstrasser, bell hanger and architectural carver., Published in Kenneth Finkel's Nineteenth-Century Photography in Philadelphia: 250 Historic Prints from The Library Company of Philadelphia, (New York: Dover, 1980), plate 98, (LCP Stack Is5, 8294.Q, Print Room)., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator
M'Clees, Jas. E. (James E.), photographer
Date
ca. 1855
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *phot. - McClees [Wagner P.7]
Exterior view of Ely Building, constructed in 1829. Image shows Tenth Street facade after the 1845 alterations, designed by architect Napoleon Le Brun, in which a six-columned portico, entablature, pediment, and marble base were added. Building was demolished sometime between 1898 and 1907. Image includes shop of H. Hochstrasser, bell hanger and architectural carver., Title from manuscript note on mount., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Reproduced in Kenneth Finkel's Nineteenth-Century Photography in Philadelphia: 250 Historic Prints from The Library Company of Philadelphia, (New York: Dover, 1980), plate 98., 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. 105., Arcadia caption text: Incorporated in 1826, against the wishes of many in the medical community who feared it would create harmful competition with the University of Pennsylvania’s medical school, Jefferson Medical College contributed to Philadelphia’s importance as the nation’s leading medical center during the mid-19th century. At its building on Tenth Street near Sansom Street, shown here c. 1855, faculty including Samuel D. Gross and Thomas D. Mütter gave instruction in topics such as surgery, materia medica, and obstetrics and diseases of women and children. The college, known today as Thomas Jefferson University, was the second in the country to open its own teaching hospital to foster student interaction with patients.
Creator
M'Clees, Jas. E. (James E.), photographer
Date
ca. 1855
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - McClees - Education [8339.F.26]
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]
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]
Aerial view of Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania, located at 3200-3254 Henry Avenue in the East Falls neighborhood of Philadelphia. Depicts a five-story building with columned portico entrance (constructed circa 1925 after designs by the firm Ritter & Shay) and circular driveway lined with automobiles. The school was founded in 1850 as the Female Medical College of Pennsylvania, the first medical school for women in the world. It was renamed Medical College of Pennsylvania in 1970, and in 1993 it merged with Hahnemann University., Negative number: 19866n.
Creator
Aero Service Corporation, photographer
Date
July 6, 1939
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Aero Service [P.8990.19866n]
Exterior view of building designed by architect Thomas Ustick Walter and built between 1849 and 1853 for the Medical Department of Pennsylvania College. Upon this school's closure in 1861, the Eclectic Medical College of Philadelphia, founded 1860, purchased the building and occupied it from 1863 to ca. 1874. It is unclear when the building was demolished. The Eclectic Medical College of Philadelphia became the Philadelphia University of Medicine and Surgery in 1865 and offered it's final lecture sessions between 1875-76. The Dean of the University, T.B. Miller, continued to sell bogus diplomas until 1880, when, after exposes in the Philadelphia Record, the school became extinct., Title and date from typed label on verso., Yellow mount with rounded corners., 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. 106., Arcadia caption text: Towering above the surrounding row homes, this building at 252-254 South Ninth Street was built in 1849 after the designs of Thomas Ustick Walter. Four different medical institutions occupied the Collegiate Gothic style building in its first three decades, beginning with the Medical Department of Pennsylvania College (of Gettysburg), which merged with the Philadelphia College of Medicine in 1859. This school closed in 1861 and the Eclectic Medical College of Philadelphia moved in. This institution became the Philadelphia University of Medicine and Surgery in 1865. Shown here c. 1868, the fraudulent university granted bogus degrees until 1880., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator
Bartlett & French, photographer
Date
ca. 1868
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Bartlett & French - Education [P.8484.24]
Commemorative print containing bust-length portraits, within a decorative border, of the original faculty of the first degree granting U.S. medical college for women that opened in 1850. Faculty includes William S. Mullen, President; N. R. Moseley, Prof. of Anatomy General, Special and Surgical; Jas. F. X. McCloskey, Prof. of the Institutes and Practice of Medicine; Jos. Longshore, Prof. of Obstetrics and Diseases of Women and Children; C. W. Gleason, Prof. of Physiology and Surgery; M. W. Dickeson, Prof. of Materia Medica and Therapeutics; and A. D. Chaloner, Prof. of Chemistry. Border designed as Gothic-style columns and arches decorated with female figures, including Wisdom and Peace. Also contains a vignette below the portraits depicting a classical style building with columns, possibly the building rented by the college at 229 Arch Street or an unexecuted rendering of the future permanent medical college building. Female Medical college was renamed Womens Medical College in 1867., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 625, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 904 S 57, Simons, a prominent Philadelphia daguerrean, photographed over twenty daguerreotype portraits of members of Philadelphia medical faculties that were published as engravings by Virgil F. Harrison in 1846., Address label pasted on verso for Mrs. Aldona L. Dickeson.
Creator
Newsam, Albert, 1809-1864, artist
Date
[ca. 1850]
Location
Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bc 904 S 57
Bird's eye view from City Hall tower looking north showing the cityscape surrounding Broad Street. Identifiable buildings include Masonic Temple (1-33 North Broad, built 1868-1873, James H. Windrim, architect); the Arch Street Methodist Episcopal Church (1344-1348 Arch, built 1869, Addison Hutton, architect); First Baptist Church (northwest cor. Broad and Arch, built 1856, Stephen Decatur Button, architect); Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts (118-126 North Broad, built 1872-76, Furness & Hewitt, architects); Offenbach's Garden, carriage depository or bazaar, formerly the site of the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad Depot (southeast corner of Broad and Cherry Streets); cyclorama building that displayed the Battle of Gettyburg in the early 1890s (northeast corner of Broad and Cherry Streets); Hahnemann Medical College (230 North Broad); and Roman Catholic High School (301-313 North Broad, built 1890, Edwin Forrest Durang, architect). Horse-drawn vehicles on Broad Street are also visible., Title printed on mount., Photographer's imprint printed on verso., Buff 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 J.F. Dallet.
Creator
Kilburn, B. W. (Benjamin West), 1827-1909
Date
c1891
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Kilburn - Views [P.9418.2]
