College of Physicians of Philadelphia
The College of Physicians of Philadelphia (19 South 22nd Street), “founded in 1787, is one of the oldest professional medical organizations in the country. Twenty-four physicians of 18th-century Philadelphia gathered ‘to advance the science of medicine and to thereby lessen human misery’.”1.
Its current headquarters, a building by Cope & Stewardson (1909), has been designated a National Historic Landmark in 2008.
The Historical Medical Library of the College was established in 1788 and was “Philadelphia’s central medical library for over 150 years, serving its medical schools, hospitals, physicians and other health professionals”2.
The College also owns a huge collection of portraits and busts of famous physicians and surgeons.
The entrance hall and the staircase to the first floor
The Norris Room
The Weir Mitchell Room
The Ashhurst Room
- Photos by Luca Borghi @ (June 2017), courtesy of Chrissie Perella, archivist, on behalf of the CPP.
- Locate the item on this Google Map
Related items:
- Adam Kuhn’s portrait
- Arthur K. Asbury’s portrait
- “Benjamin Rush” by Adele von Helmbold
- Charles Lester Leonard’s portrait
- “David Hayes Agnew” by Bernard Uhle
- George Bacon Wood’s portrait
- George Washington Norris’ portrait
- George William Norris’ portrait
- Jacob Mendes Da Costa’s portrait
- James Cornelius Wilson’s bust
- John Ashhurst, Jr.’s portrait
- John Carson’s portrait
- “John Heysham Gibbon” by Charles Hopkinson
- John Hunter’s portrait
- John Morgan’s portrait
- John Redman’s portrait
- John Rhea Barton’s bust
- Joseph G. Richardson’s portrait
- Joseph Leidy’s portrait
- Louis Adolphus Duhring’s portrait
- Memorial Chimney Piece
- Nathaniel Chapman’s bust
- Norris room fireplace
- Samuel B. Sturgis’ portrait
- Samuel David Gross’ bust
- Samuel Jackson’s portrait
- “Silas Weir Mitchell” by Robert Vonnoh
- Silas Weir Mitchell’s bust
- William Cullen’s portrait
- William Fisher Norris’ portrait
- William Henry Pancoast’s bust
- William Harvey portrait
- William Thomson’s lantern for the Detection of Color Blindness
- William Thomson’s portrait
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- William Williams Keen’s portrait
Bibliography
- Julie S. Berkowitz, The College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Portrait Catalogue. With photographs by Rick Echelmeyer, College of Physicians of Philadelphia, Philadelphia 1984, pp. 244