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Blockley Almshouse in 1893

Blockley Almshouse. This Hexamer Survey Map, drawn in 1893, shows the almshouse and hospital a decade before the complex was officially renamed the Philadelphia General Hospital. 

1893
Attribution/Credit

Hexamer General Surveys, vol. 28, available from Asylum Project; also Greater Philadelphia GeoHistory Network (see this source for Hexamer Index)