About This Item
Title
Insane Department
Subject
Psychiatric Department, Hospital
Mentally Ill Persons
Women
Exercise
Blockley Almshouse
Philadelphia General Hospital
Photographs
Description
Female Insane exercising yard showing part of the diningroom building.
Back of image: one of the exercising yards-insane departmetnt-female side. Showing part of the congregate diningroom building
See: Charles Lawrence, History of Philadelphia Almshouses and Hospitals (1905), p. 234. See PGH Box 16 #29, Box 19 #8, Box 19 #10.
Source
Original image: Philadelphia General Hospital Photograph Collection, Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia, box 18, photo no. 11
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.
Publisher
Digitized by the Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia
Date
ca. 1899
Type
StillImage
Identifier
PGH_18_11
Temporal Coverage
History, 19th Century
Spatial Coverage
Philadelphia
Original Format
1 photograph : albumen print, sepia
Physical Dimensions
15.5 x 20 cm
Citation
“Insane Department,” The College of Physicians of Philadelphia Digital Library, accessed September 8, 2024, https://cppdigitallibrary.org/items/show/786.