Surgical Operation ca. 1899

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.

Back of image: Surgeon General Reynolds as a Blockley resident

Original image: Philadelphia General Hospital Photograph Collection, Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia, box 11, photo no. 8

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_8

History, 19th Century

Philadelphia

1 photograph : sepia

35 x 35 cm