Insane Department

Psychiatric Department, Hospital

Mentally Ill Persons

Women

Aged

Nurses

Blockley Almshouse

Philadelphia General Hospital

Photographs

Portraits

Elderly female patient seated next to nurse.

Back of image: Inmate of Insane Department

Original image: Philadelphia General Hospital Photograph Collection, Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia, box 2, photo no. 9

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.

Digitized by the Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia

1888

StillImage

PGH_2_9

History, 19th Century

Philadelphia

Bower, John L. (John Lincoln), 1865-1955. Bower album

1 photograph : albumen print, sepia

9 x 12.5 cm