Surgical Operation

Operating Rooms

General surgery

Surgical Instruments

Physicians

Nurses

Blockley Almshouse

Philadelphia General Hospital

Reynolds, C. R.

Kluttz, W. C.

Photographs

Resident physicians and four nurses present around table.

Front of image: C. R. Reynolds on left, W. C. Kluttz. Possibly Major General R. Reynolds.

C. R. Reynolds and W. C. Kluttz were resident physicians at PGH in 1899.

Original image: Philadelphia General Hospital Photograph Collection, Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia, box 11, photo no. 7

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

ca. 1899

StillImage

PGH_11_7

History, 19th Century

Philadelphia

1 photograph

35 x 35 cm