Philadelphia Almshouse, 1840

Almshouses

Hospitals, Urban

Blockley Almshouse

Philadelphia General Hospital

Pictorial Works

Exterior view with Schuykill river in foreground.

Image taken from: Charles Lawrence, History of the Philadelphia Almshouse and Hospitals (1905).

Original image: Philadelphia General Hospital Photograph Collection, Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia, box 29, photo no. 13

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

1840

StillImage

PGH_29_13

Philadelphia

1 print

20 x 26 cm