Object Status:
Unlocated
Accession Date:
May 1779
Primary Source Reference:
Du Simitière Memorandum Books, Library of Congress, fol. 39r
Notes:
Engraving by Nicholas Garrison (1701-1781), after James Hulett (d. 1771), "A View of the House of Employment, Alms-House, Pennsylvania Hospital, and Part of the City of Philadelphia" (ca. 1767)
The donor, Charles Cist (1738-1805), was a Philadelphia printer. He was born in in St. Petersburg, Russia (birth name Thiel) and emigrated to America in 1769, settling in Philadelphia in 1773.
