The New York Times

FEARFUL DISASTER IN PHILADELPHIA.; Falling of the Walls of the Blockley Alms-House Lunatic Asylum Between Thirty and Forty Inmates in the Ruins.

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THE DISASTER IN PHILADELPHIA.; Particulars of the Falling of the Walls of the Blockley Alms-house Lunatic Asylum.

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Philadelphia’s 200-year-old disability records show welfare reform movement’s early shift toward rationing care and punishing poor people

Drawing shows men making shoes at the Philadelphia Almshouse, circa 1899. Alice Barber Stephens/Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Alfred Bendiner Memorial Collection Charles ...
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After months of public feedback and controversy, Philly’s Mütter Museum opens new exhibition

A nursing uniform and other artifacts from the Blockley Almshouse, which provided medical care for the impoverished in Philadelphia from 1835 to 1919, are displayed in the ''Postmortem Project'' ...
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Philadelphia’s 200-year-old disability records show welfare reform movement’s early shift toward rationing care and punishing poor people | The Conversation

Drawing shows men making shoes at the Philadelphia Almshouse, circa 1899. Alice Barber Stephens/Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Alfred Bendiner Memorial Collection Nicole Lee ...