Photo, Print, Drawing View of the Philadelphia Alms House: Blockley. View of the Philadelphia alms house : Blockley
About this Item
Title
- View of the Philadelphia Alms House: Blockley.
Other Title
- View of the Philadelphia alms house : Blockley
Summary
- This 1835 lithograph by George Lehman shows the Blockley Alms House in Philadelphia, as seen from Hyde Park on the east bank of the Schuylkill River. The view shows the riverbanks where two men fish and cows graze. A two-masted sailing ship passes by, with other ships on the river and the sprawling city stretched out in the background. William Strickland (1788--1854), a founder of Greek Revival architecture in the United States, designed the quadrangle of four large buildings that formed the almshouse. The original Philadelphia Alms House was constructed in the early 1730s and was the first multifunctional government-sponsored institution for the care of the poor in America. In addition to housing and feeding the poor, it offered an infirmary and hospital for the sick and the insane, a workhouse, and an orphanage. When the original almshouse became overcrowded, the authorities chose a sizable undeveloped parcel of land in Blockley, west of the city center, for the new structure, which was completed in 1833. George Lehman (circa 1800--70) was a Swiss-born landscape artist, engraver, and lithographer, who in 1824 immigrated to the United States with his family, several of whom were also stonecutters.
Names
- Lehman, George, circa 1800-1870 Artist.
Created / Published
- Philadelphia : Lehman & Duval, 1835.
Headings
- - United States of America--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia
- - 1835
- - Almshouses
- - Blockley Almshouse
- - Boats and boating
- - Hospitals
- - Lithographs
- - Mentally ill
- - Orphanages
- - Orphans
- - Poor persons
- - Schuylkill River (Pennsylvania)
Notes
- - Title devised, in English, by Library staff.
- - "Digital catalog number: POS 805"--Note extracted from World Digital Library.
- - Original resource extent: 1 print : lithograph ; 22 x 29 centimeters.
- - Reference extracted from World Digital Library: George Lehman, Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary, Library Company of Philadelphia, http://www.lcpdigital.org.|Philadelphia External on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers, http://www.librarycompany.org/pos/posdictionary.htm. External
- - Original resource at: The Library Company of Philadelphia.
- - Content in English.
- - Description based on data extracted from World Digital Library, which may be extracted from partner institutions.
Medium
- 1 online resource.
Source Collection
- Philadelphia on Stone
Digital Id
Library of Congress Control Number
- 2021670209
Online Format
- compressed data
- image