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Pennsylvania Hospital, Pine Street, Philadelphia – Vintage Photo Print

Pennsylvania Hospital, Pine Street, Philadelphia, 1854 — antique engraving
Pennsylvania Hospital, Pine Street, Philadelphia, 1854. Antique engraving from the Philadelphia collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Pennsylvania Hospital, Pine Street, Philadelphia comes to life in this antique engraving, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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Pennsylvania Hospital, Pine Street, Philadelphia

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Pennsylvania Hospital on Pine Street, shown here in a wood engraving from Gleason's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion in July 1854, stands among the oldest institutions of its kind in the United States. Benjamin Franklin and Dr. Thomas Bond founded it in 1751, and its central building, completed in the 1750s, gave Philadelphia a model for public care of the sick and mentally ill. By the 1850s, the illustrated weeklies were regularly printing engravings of such landmarks, so the view also reflects how city institutions were presented to a national readership.

Created / published1854
Medium1 print : wood engraving.
SubjectsPublished in Gleason's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion, July 1854, p. 24. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Pennsylvania--Philadelphia; Hospitals--Pennsylvania; Shelf.; Hospitals; Geogr.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,212 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-136882

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