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Launch of the USS Pennsylvania... Wills Eye Hospital...
Launch of the USS Pennsylvania... Wills Eye Hospital...
Item # 700166
July 20, 1837
NATIONAL GAZETTE & LITERARY REGISTER, Philadelphia, July 20, 1837
* Wills Eye Hospital ad (1800's)
* USS Pennsylvania launching
* United States Navy sail warship
Page 2 has a nice article: "The Launch" of the U.S.S. Pennsylvania. At the time this three-decked ship of the U.S. Navy was the largest U.S. sailing warship ever built. Her only cruise was a single trip from Delaware Bay thru Chesapeake Bay to the Norfolk Navy Yard. It was destroyed during the Civil War.
The front page has an article: "The Wills Hospital" in Phila. "...for the disease of the eye...". This remains a famous and respected eye hospital to this day. It was established just 5 years previous.
Four pages, never bound nor trimmed, nice condition.
Category: Pre-Civil War
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