Insane Department

Psychiatric Department, Hospital

Mentally Ill Persons

Men

Exercise

Blockley Almshouse

Philadelphia General Hospital

Photographs

male patients in insane exercising yard.

Back of image: exercising yard, insane department. Male side showing part of the ward building

See: Charles Lawrence, History of Philadelphia Almshouses and Hospitals (1905), p. 214. See PGH Box 16 #22

Original image: Philadelphia General Hospital Photograph Collection, Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia, box 18, photo no. 3

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_18_3

History, 19th Century

Philadelphia

1 photograph : albumen print, sepia

16 x 21.5 cm