Buildings and Property Photographs 1909-1958.

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Mary J. Drexel Home and Philadelphia Motherhouse of Deaconesses. Buildings and Property Photographs 1909-1958.

Buildings and Property Photographs 1909-1958.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/57312504

This series comprises approximately 300 black and white, color, and sepia-toned photographs of buildings and properties owned by the Mary J. Drexel Home and Philadelphia Motherhouse of Deaconesses (MJDH/PMD). These photographs were retained as part of the visual history of the MJDH/. Many of the photographs are undated but appear to be from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Those that are dated are from 1909-1958, with the majority dating from approximately 1957-1958. Represented in the photographs are the three locations of the MJDH/PMD: the first location of the MJDH/PMD at 2100 S. College Avenue, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; the second location of the motherhouse at 801 Merion Square Rd., Gladwyne, Pennsylvania; and the second location of the MJDH at 238 Belmont Avenue, Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania. Photographs are separated into categories of exterior shots and interior shots for both locations of the motherhouse. Many of the exterior shots are undated, except for a series of photographs from the dedication day for the motherhouse in Gladwyne on June 8, 1954, and a series of photographs chronicling construction of an addition to the motherhouse in 1957-1958. There is only one photograph of the Mary J. Drexel Home after it relocated to Bala Cynwyd and there is one folder of photographs depicting the vacation homes for the deaconesses located in the Pocono Mountains of Pennsylvania and at Cape May Point, New Jersey. The flat box contains an undated "panoramic" shot of the MJDH/PMD at its 2100 S. College Avenue location. It is in two pieces and is exhibiting signs of deterioration.

3 boxes (1.0 cubic ft.)

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