Friends Asylum for the Insane near Frankford [graphic]

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Title: Friends Asylum for the Insane near Frankford [graphic]
Creator: Doughty, 19th century, printmaker
Contributor: Childs & Inman, publisher.
Clements C. Fry Collection of Medical Prints and Drawings (Yale Medical Library, Historical Library)
Published / Created: [after 1861]
Publication Place: Philadelphia
Publisher: Childs & Inman Lith
Description: Title from item.
Place of publication derived from printer's known place of business.
Date derived from hospital's name change in 1861.
The hospital, founded in 1813, was the first private hospital in the nation, and is still in operation. The name was changed from Asylum for the Relief of Persons Deprived of the Use of Their Reason after 1861 and is now called Friends Hospital.
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Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Hospitals, U.S.A.
Extent: 1 print : trimmed sheet 14.9 x 24.7 cm
Language: English

Genre: Lithographs
Material: lithograph ; and hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Friends' Asylum for the Insane.
Friends Hospital (Philadelphia, Pa.).
Subject (Topic): Psychiatric hospitals
Subjects: Friends' Asylum for the Insane
Friends Hospital (Philadelphia, Pa.).
Psychiatric hospitals

Access: Public
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