Details
Creator Corrie, George J., composer.
Contributor Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 21-1886, artist.
Lee & Walker, publisher.
Sinclair, Thomas, b. ca. 1805-1881, printer.
Title Point Breeze Park, schottisch
Publisher Philadelphia : Lee & Walker, 722 Chestnut St
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1858
Date [ca. 1858]
Physical Description 6 p.: ill.; 34 cm.
Is referenced by Wainwright 294
Notes Cover illustration is a lithograph, tinted with two stones, showing several spectators at a trotting race at the park on the Penrose Ferry Bridge Road near Point Breeze. In the right, several men, in top hats, stand in the judge's stand while male and female club members mob the piazzas of the two-story main clubhouse as the two trotters pulling sulkies race past on the course. A few spectators stand on the grounds and landscaped paths. Also shows a second smaller clubhouse building. The park, established in 1855 by the Point Breeze Park Association of sportsmen, promoted trotting races as agricultural exhibitions to circumvent an 1817 city ban of horse racing. The park was sold to a private owner in 1901 and later sold for an amusement park in 1912.
Artist: Lith. from nature by J. Queen; Printer: T. Sinclair's lith., Phila.
Price printed on recto: 38 Cts. Nett.
Philadelphia on Stone
POS 610
Free Library of Philadelphia: Castner 2:85 and 15:3.
Gift of David Doret.
Subject Horse racing -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Sports spectators -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Point Breeze Park (Philadelphia, Pa.)
South Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Genre Lithographs -- 1850-1860.
Sheet music -- 1850-1860.
Illustrator Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 21-1886, artist.
Printer Sinclair, Thomas, b. ca. 1805-1881, printer.
Lee & Walker, publisher.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Books Rare| Sheet Music Poi 10074.F (Doret)
Accession number 10074.F (Doret)