Frank Royer Keefer

Obstetrics and Gynecology Department, Hospital

Physicians

Nurses

Blockley Almshouse

Philadelphia General Hospital

Keefer, Frank R., 1865-

Humphrey, Glennis Eugene

Harris, Thomas J.

Bermeker, Amandena

Bozorth, Mattie

Marshall, Ellen

Messick, Laura

Anderson, Agnes L.

Mullem, Eva

Revell, Margaret R.

Backofen, Malvina

Photographs

Portraits

Seated with a group of residents and nurses.

Amandena Bermeker graduated from PGH School of Nursing in 1888, Mattie Bozorth and Ellen Marshall in 1889, Laura Messick, Agnes L. Anderson, Eva Mullem and Margaret R, Revell in 1890, Malvina Backofen in 1891.

Original image: Philadelphia General Hospital Photograph Collection, Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia, box 2, photo no. 27

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_27

History, 19th Century

Philadelphia

1 photograph

9.5 x 11.5 cm