About This Item
Title
Laundry Building
Subject
Laundry Service, Hospital
Blockley Almshouse
Philadelphia General Hospital
Photographs
Description
exterior view.
See: Charles Lawrence, History of Philadelphia Almshouses and Hospitals (1905), p. 344. See PGH box 16 #33, Box 18 #12, Box 19 #5.
Source
Original image: Philadelphia General Hospital Photograph Collection, Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia, box 19, photo no. 7
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_19_07
Temporal Coverage
History, 19th Century
Spatial Coverage
Philadelphia
Original Format
1 photograph : albumen print, sepia
Physical Dimensions
16 x 21.5 cm
Citation
“Laundry Building,” The College of Physicians of Philadelphia Digital Library, accessed November 30, 2024, https://cppdigitallibrary.org/items/show/792.