Photo, Print, Drawing Mower U.S.A. General Hospital, Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia.
About this Item
Title
- Mower U.S.A. General Hospital, Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia.
Summary
- This print is a bird's eye view of the Mower General Hospital, operated by the U.S. Army during the American Civil War. Built in 1862 after the designs of Philadelphia architect John McArthur, Jr., the hospital was located opposite the Chestnut Hill track of the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad. The hospital received injured soldiers transported directly from the battlefield between January 1863 and May 1865. Designed as a pavilion to control the spread of infection, it consisted of hospital wards radiating from a central enclosed complex of administrative and utility buildings, all within the circumference of a mile. The complex included the administration building, a chapel, post office, bandstand, food preparation shops and storage houses, a barber shop, dining room, and guard house. The buildings are numbered 1--40 in the image, with the key on the bottom of the print near the title. The hospital had fresh water from the Chestnut Hill water works, gas lighting, and indoor plumbing. The complex was razed following the war. The print, by James Fuller Queen, a Philadelphia lithographer and pioneer chromolithographer known for his attention to detail, was used as the frontispiece to Rules and Special Orders of the Mower United States Army General Hospital at Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, published in 1865.
Names
- Kipling, W. Copyright Holder.
- Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 21-1886 Artist.
Created / Published
- Philadelphia : P.S. Duval & Son Lithography, 1865.
Headings
- - United States of America--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia
- - 1865
- - Chromolithographs
- - Hospitals
- - Military hospitals
- - Mower Hospital (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
- - Railroads
- - United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
Notes
- - Title devised, in English, by Library staff.
- - "Digital catalog number: POS 490"--Note extracted from World Digital Library.
- - Original resource extent: 1 print : chromolithograph ; 30 x 52 centimeters.
- - 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
- 2021670457
Online Format
- compressed data
- image