Frontispiece for The Annual Report of the Board of Directors of the Pennsylvania Institution for the Deaf and Dumb for 1850 (Philadelphia; Crissy & Markley, printers, 1851). (LCP Am 1851 Pen Ins 50596.O.22), Exterior view of the school located at the northwest corner of Broad and Pine Streets. Designed by Philadelphia architect John Haviland, the building was constructed in 1824-26, soon after the school's founding.
Creator
Newsam, Albert, 1809-1864, artist., creator
Date
[1851].
Location
http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W276.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. W276 [P.2164]
Aerial view of the Mt. Airy campus of the Pennsylvania Institution for the Deaf and Dumb (later renamed Pennsylvania School for the Deaf). Constructed circa 1890 after designs by Cope & Stewardson and Wilson Brothers & Company, the school operated at this location from 1892 until 1984, when it relocated to Germantown. The school was established by David Sexias in Center City in 1820. View includes residences and adjacent railroad tracks. Looks northeast towards Montgomery County., Negative number: 1536.
Creator
Aero Service Corporation, photographer
Date
ca. 1915
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Aero Service [P.8990.1536]
View looking northwest showing the building constructed 1824-26 after the designs of John Haviland at 320 South Broad Street. View includes street railroad tracks, street lamps, and adjacent residences. The school, incorporated in 1821, provided instruction in trades and manufactures to deaf and mute persons., Title and date from manuscript note on verso., 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. 107., Arcadia caption text: This 1858 view of Broad Street looking northwest from Pine Street depicts the thoroughfare as more structures were springing up near the once rural area. The massive Greek Revival building, familiar today as the University of the Arts’ Dorrance Hamilton Hall, was erected 1824-1826 for the Pennsylvania Institution for the Deaf and Dumb after the designs of John Haviland. This school, chartered in 1821, taught deaf and mute students industrial and trade skills, such as tailoring and lithography. The school left the building in 1893, at which time the Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art (now University of the Arts) purchased it.
Creator
M'Clees, Jas. E. (James E.), photographer
Date
June 1858
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *photo - McClees [8339.F.19]
Rooftop view looking south from the tower observatory of the Colosseum at the southeast corner of Broad and Locust Streets showing a partial view of the Beth Eden Baptist church built circa 1869 after designs by Edward Tuckerman Potter; a partially obscured view of the Pennsylvania Institution for the Deaf and Dumb (i.e., Deaf & Dumb Asylum) built 1824-26 after designs by John Haviland; and brick row houses facing Broad Street and Spruce Street. Originally constructed in 1873 in New York City, the Colosseum was dismantled and rebuilt in Philadelphia to exhibit cycloramas during the Centennial celebration in 1876. Removed to Boston in 1883 and stables built on the site by John Wanamaker., Title printed on mount., Publisher's imprint printed on mount., White mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator
Walker, Lewis E. (Lewis Emory), 1822-1880
Date
[ca. 1876]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Walker - Views [P.8452]