Castner Scrapbook v.9, Hospitals, Charitable, page 22

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Castner Scrapbook v.9, Hospitals, Charitable, page 22

Item Info

Item No: pdcc02444
Title: Castner Scrapbook v.9, Hospitals, Charitable, page 22
Historic Street Address: 20th & Race Streets, Northwest corner
Media Type: Scrapbooks
Source: Print and Picture Collection
Notes:

Item pdcc00799, top [item dimensions 13.0 cm x 17.7 cm]:

Print shows the facade of the Pennsylvania Institution for the Blind which stood at 20th and Race Streets from 1835. German-born Julius Reinhold Friedlander, a young teacher of blind and visually impaired, established the institution a few years before, in 1832.  Also shows pedestrians and a guardhouse.

Building demolished: YES 1838


Notes:

Item pdcc00800, bottom [image dimensions 10.0 cm x 12.3 cm]:

Shows the Pennsylvania Institution for the instruction of the Blind, which stood at 20th and Race Streets, from 1835. German-born teacher of the blind and visually impaired, Julius Reinhold Friedlander established the institution a few years before it occupied this new building, in 1832.

Building demolished: YES


Geocode Latitude: Geocode Longitude:-75.172407
Geocode Latitude:39.957440

Call Number: A917.481 P536 v.9
Creator Name: Castner, Samuel, Jr., 1843-1929 - Compiler
Wild, J. C. (John Caspar), approximately 1804-1846 - Artist
Bowen, John T., approximately 1801-1856? - Lithographer

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