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Pennsylvania Hospital, in Pine Street Philadelphia – Historic Photo Reproduction

Pennsylvania Hospital, in Pine Street Philadelphia, 1800 — antique engraving
Pennsylvania Hospital, in Pine Street Philadelphia, 1800. 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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Step back in time with Pennsylvania Hospital, in Pine Street Philadelphia, an antique engraving rich in period detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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Pennsylvania Hospital, on Pine Street, is shown here as one of the plates in William Birch & Son's 1800 series of views of the city. The hospital was founded in 1751 through the efforts of Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Bond, and it ranks among the earliest hospitals in the American colonies. Birch's engravings were meant to record Philadelphia as it looked at the turn of the century, when it was still the young nation's largest city. The hand coloring was added to the engraving, so the building's brick and surroundings reflect the work of the colorist as well as the engraver.

Created / published1800
Medium1 print : engraving, hand-colored.
SubjectsHand-colored engraving by Wm. Birch & Son. Illus. in: The City of Philadelphia...as It Appeared in the Year 1800..., 1800. Plate 26. Ref. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Pa.--P(3); Artists, P.I.; Hospitals; RBD; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,482 × 1,189 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-176933

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