About This Item
Title
Resident Physician and Attendant
Subject
Internship and Residency
Physicians
Hospital Communication Systems
Blockley Almshouse
Philadelphia General Hospital
Rosenau, M. J. (Milton Joseph), 1869-1946
Photographs
Description
Resident being woken by night messenger with note.
Back of image: Night messenger with/a note to Resident Physician.
Rosenau was resident Physician at PGH in 1889.
Source
Original image: Philadelphia General Hospital Photograph Collection, Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia, box 1, photo no. 5
Philadelphia General Hospital was originally part of the Philadelphia Almshouse, which was founded in 1731 for the city’s poor, elderly and indigent. Nicknamed “Old Blockley,” because of its location in Blockley Township of West Philadelphia, the hospital was renamed Philadelphia General Hospital in 1919. The hospital eventually closed in 1977. The images in this collection have been compiled from a number of sources but appear to be predominantly from the personal photo albums of attending physicians.
Publisher
Digitized by the Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia
Date
1888
Type
StillImage
Identifier
PGH_1_5
Temporal Coverage
History, 19th Century
Spatial Coverage
Philadelphia
Is Part Of
Bower, John L. (John Lincoln), 1865-1955. Bower album
Original Format
1 photograph : albumen print, sepia
Physical Dimensions
9 x 12.5 cm
Citation
“Resident Physician and Attendant,” The College of Physicians of Philadelphia Digital Library, accessed December 6, 2024, https://cppdigitallibrary.org/items/show/607.