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Title: Lutheran Orphans' Home postcards
Description: Contains exterior views of the orphanage building constructed in 1879 for the elderly and the new annex built circa 1896 by Carl Berger. Also depicts boys gardening on the property., Sheet number: 100B07., Undivided 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. 1905
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Germantown - Buildings - 100]

Title: Methodist Episcopal Orphanage
Description: Exterior view of the Methodist Episcopal Orphanage, built by Thomas Preston Lonsdale circa 1896., Numbered 8098 on recto., Sheet number: 138B10., 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. 1905
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Organizations (By Name) - 138]

Title: William Elkins Masonic Orphanage for Girls postcards
Description: Exterior views of orphanage built in 1904 after designs by Horace Trumbauer at North Broad Street and Hunting Park Avenue. Includes a view of Torresdale Boulevard, later known as Roosevelt Boulevard, in the foreground. The new highway connected the small farming community of Torresdale directly to central Philadelphia., Sheet number: 138A04., 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: 1905-1910
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Organizations (By Name) - 138]

Title: St. John's Orphan Asylum postcards
Description: Depicts boys playing on the lawn in front of the entrance to the orphanage and boys sitting on the lawn in front of Our Lady's Shrine., Photographs by Sliker., Sheet number: 138B18., Real photos. 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 [Organizations (By Name) - 138]

Title: House of refuge (girls), 22nd & Girard, Phila
Description: Exterior view of the House of Refuge Dormitory for Colored Girls at North 22nd and Poplar Streets built circa 1898 after designs by Addison Hutton. Shows the wrought iron fence before the front facade of the three-story building that has ivy growing on it. Trees line the sidewalk in the foreground., Title from manuscript inscribed in the negative., Manuscript inscribed in the negative: 7014., Sheet number: 138B08., Divided back., Gift of George M. Brightbill, 1999., Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022.
Creator: Brightbill, George M., collector
Date: [ca. 1905]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Organizations (By Name) - 138]

Title: Season ticket.--20 cts Floral bazaar for the benefit of the children of the Union Temporary Home, at Concert Hall, June 1st, 1858
Description: A ticket., Printed area measures 42 x 75 mm., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Union Temporary Home for Children (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Date: [1858]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1858 Union 3321.F.81 (McAllister)

Title: Girard College for Orphans, at Philadelphia, Pa
Description: View of Girard College at Girard Avenue facing northwest from Corinthian Avenue including Founder’s Hall and the eastern and western outbuildings. Shows several figures walking the grounds of the school in addition to street and pedestrian traffic including horse-drawn carriages and coaches, men on horseback, promenaders, and a laborer pushing a hand cart. The college buildings, designed by Philadelphia architect Thomas Ustick Walter in the Greek Revival style, were constructed 1833-1847. Girard College was established through a bequest from Stephen Girard, a Philadelphia financier and philanthropist, for the creation of a school for "poor white orphans.", Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 307/308, Library of Congress: DLC PP 2001: 068 Girard College
Creator: Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 21-1886, artist
Date: [ca. 1845]
Location: Library of Congress | Prints and Photographs Division LOC DLC PP 2001: 068 Girard College

Title: Salvation Army Home, 5415 Lansdowne Avenue, Phila
Description: Postcard promoting the Salvation Army Rescue Children's Home and Hospital. The home, established in 1893, provided shelter, training and medical care to destitute mothers and children. Depicts a group portrait of a row of eleven small children, including an African American girl, attired in identical white jumpers. The children are lined up from shortest to tallest child., Inscribed in negative: 26770., Contains manuscript note on verso addressed to Mrs. A. G. Crandall, Montpelier, Vermont., Purchase 2002., Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022., Real photo. Divided back. Post marked April 16, 1910.
Creator: Rau, William Herman, 1855-1920
Date: [ca. 1910]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department LCP postcards - Hospitals, asylums and homes [P.2002.52]

Title: William Whelan Papers, 1811-1841 (inclusive)
Description: The William Whelan Papers hold correspondence and documents showing the involvement of a Philadelphia merchant in his business, Irish-American society, and local charitable organizations., On deposit at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 1300 Locust Street, Philadelphia, PA 19107. For service, please contact the Historical Society at 215-732-6200 or http://www.hsp.org., William Whelan was born in Ireland, and came to America as a boy. He was a grocer in Philadelphia from 1809 through 1842, and was active in charitable organizations including St. John's Orphan Asylum and the Association of the “Friends of Ireland” and Irishmen in the City and County of Philadelphia.
Creator: Whelan, William, d. 1863
Date: 1811
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | MSS McA MSS 021, https://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/Islandora%3A64413#page/1/mode/1up

Title: Our Mother of Sorrows, Cathedral Cemetery W. Philadelphia
Description: View showing the Roman Catholic Church (corner stone laid 1867, 4800-4814 Lancaster Avenue), and adjacent St. Johns Orphan Asylum (built circa 1852) at the east end of the Cathedral Cemetery. In the right of the image, the Gothic-style church stands next to the gated entrance with gatehouse to the cemetery. A small church outbuilding, trees and paths landscape the church grounds. On a hillside behind the church, the asylum is visible. Several children stroll and play under the presence of Sisters of St. Joseph on the tree-lined property. In the foreground, pedestrians and horse-drawn carriages and buggies travel on Lancaster Avenue. Also includes printed annotations for the "Cemetery Gate" and "48th St." Our Mother, built after the designs of Edwin Forest Durang, replaced St. Gregory's Church built on the site soon after the purchase of the land in 1849 by Bishop Francis Patrick Kenrick for the development of a cemetery and other Catholic institutions in West Philadelphia., Not in Wainwright., Copyright secured., Date inferred from variant duplicate in the Print and Photograph Collection at the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., Inscribed in block letters below title: Original Plan - 1875., Philadelphia on Stone, PAHRC: United States, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Our Mother
Date: [ca. 1868]
Location: Philadelphia Archdiocesan Historical Research Center. | Graphics Collection. PAHRC United States, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Our Mother

Title: View of the city of Philadelphia, and its principal buildings
Description: Print containing a central panoramic view of Philadelphia surrounded by vignettes of prominent Philadelphia institutions. View looks west from Camden, New Jersey, showing islands and vessels in the Delaware River. Vignettes include the Almshouse, Fairmount, Girard College, Merchants' Exchange, Moyamensing Prison, Chestnut Street Theatre, U.S. Naval Asylum, State House, U.S. Mint, and the University of Pennsylvania. Most vignettes include small details like carriages, horses and pedestrians on foot., Philadelphia on Stone, Atwater Kent Museum: 40.14.19
Creator: Kollner, Augustus, b. 1813, artist
Date: 1842
Location: Atwater Kent Museum | Print Department AKM AKM 40.14.19

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