Patients, Children

Scarlet Fever

Convalescence

Child

Play and Playthings

Blockley Almshouse

Philadelphia General Hospital

Photographs

Back of image: 14153 (PGH-54) convalescents scarlet fever playing 7/20/1917

Original image: Philadelphia General Hospital Photograph Collection, Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia, box 16, photo no. 37

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

1917 July 20

StillImage

PGH_16_37

History, 20th Century

Philadelphia

1 photograph

20.5 x 25.5 cm