DESCRIPTION:
Subject: Home for Incurables, Children's House, Philadelphia, PA
Condition: Good (See scans)
Back side: Divided
Circulated: Yes
Year: 1909
Publisher: The World Post Card Co.
Postmark: February 26, 1909, Philadelphia, PA
"Many of the benevolent institutions opened in West Philadelphia in the late nineteenth century provided unusual services. The Philadelphia Home for Incurables, established in 1877 at the corner of 48th Street and Woodland Avenue on a five-acre grounds, for example, provided vocational training for people with permanent disabilities. For example, a man who was born crippled without any legs below the knee and with weakened hands and arms learned the trade of printing. A man with spinal injuries similarly learned telegraphy. In the rear of the Philadelphia Home for Incurables was the Wilson Memorial which served as a home for children who were not old enough to be admitted to the main institution. The children learned useful skills. There was a sewing hour for girls and boys learned to polish brasses or cane chairs." (Attribution: http://www.archives.upenn.edu/histy/features/wphila/history/history2.html)
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