Exterior views

Almhouses

Hospitals, Urban

Rivers

Blockley Almshouse

Philadelphia General Hospital

Photographs

Exterior view of PGH, facing east across the Schuylkill River.

Front of image: The Philadelphia Almshouse West side of the Schuylkill River, corner of 34th and South Streets (built in1825). Facing east, this sketch made without the high fence which obscures the first story of the building, in March 1889, by D.J. Kennedy

Original image: Philadelphia General Hospital Photograph Collection, Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia, box 14, photo no. 6

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

1889

StillImage

PGH_14_6

History, 19th Century

Philadelphia

Pfahler, George E. (George Edward), 1874-1957. Pfahler collection

1 print

15 x 24.5 cm