A photo set of property plaques of the All-Saints Royal Hospital in the Mac-Bride collection

Abstract

Between the 16th and 18th centuries, the All-Saints Royal Hospital was the most important medical, surgical and assistance  institution in Lisbon. Its general characteristics, as well as the policies that motivated its creation and deactivation, are well known to  historians who have considered the subject, but also to all those interested in the history of Lisbon, particularly about the 1755  Earthquake, a cataclysm that greatly damaged the famous building, which was demolished a few years later. A number of buildings  were part of the estate of the Royal Hospital, which came into its possession in various forms. In each, there was a small plaque with 
the monogram of that institution by the door. Several of these plaques survived to our days, and were registered by photographer  Eduardo Portugal in 1945, by request of Alberto Mac-Bride, a doctor-surgeon and olisipograph, interested in the history of the Royal 
Hospital of All Saints.