Description

Photograph of a lithograph entitled "Maryland Hospital" by Isodore Laurent Deroy (1797-1886) of a drawing ("drawn from nature") by Augustus Köllner (1813-1906), published by Goupil, Vibert and Company in 1852. Maryland Hospital (Baltimore, Md.), founded in 1797 by an act of the Legislature and originally intended as a refuge for yellow fever sufferers, was later leased to Drs. Smyth and McKenzie, then became a hospital for the insane, and finally, once patients were relocated to Spring Grove Hospital, was bought by Johns Hopkins and demolished in 1874 to make way for The Johns Hopkins Hospital. To the left in the background is old Washington College (University) Hospital, where Edgar Allan Poe died, which later became Church Home and Infirmary. The view is looking southwest across what was then Joppa Road. The scene is contemporary to the times: a wagon and a carriage on the road, a horseback rider, livestock grazing on pasture, and a few African Americans and other pedestrians meeting and talking. (Cator print number 113.)

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Enoch Pratt Free Library / State Library Resource Center

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Digital Maryland