Insane Department

Psychiatric Department, Hospital

Blockley Almshouse

Philadelphia General Hospital

Photographs

Street in Front of Insane Wards.

Front of image: street in front of Insane Ward

From: Charles Lawrence, History of the Philadelphia Almshouses and Hospitals, 1905, p. 196. 5 copies

Original image: Philadelphia General Hospital Photograph Collection, Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia, box 16, photo no. 28

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_16_28

History, 19th Century

Philadelphia

1 photograph

19.5 x 25 cm