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Gentlemen's Club House, Manheim Grounds postcards.
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Creator
Brightbill, George M., collector.
Contributor
McKim, Mead & White, architect.
Title
Gentlemen's Club House, Manheim Grounds postcards. [graphic].
Date
1905-1910
Physical Description
4 photomechanical prints (postcards): photolithograph; 9 x 15 cm.(3.5 x 5.5 in.)
Description
Exterior views of the Gentlemen's Club House built 1890-1891 after designs by McKim, Mead & White.
Notes
Contains 2 postcards printed in color and 2 printed in black and white.
Also known as the Germantown Cricket Club. Established in 1854. General George Meade opened the playing grounds in Nicetown where the Germantown Club played cricket against their rival team, the Young America Club. In the late 1880s the two clubs were consolidated into one, and in 1889 the combined organization moved to the Manheim grounds on land formerly owned by the Littell and Price families. McKim, Mead & White designed the main clubhouse in 1891. A player's wing, pool house, squash courts and a swimming pool were added to the grounds in 1903, along with a bowling alley in 1907.
Sheet numbers: 100A04 and 100B08.
Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Subject
Germantown Cricket Club.
Clubhouses -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject
Germantown (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Manheim Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- West -- 411.
Genre
Photomechanical prints -- Color -- 1900-1910.
Photomechanical prints -- 1900-1910.
Postcards -- 1900-1910.
Associated name
McKim, Mead & White, architect.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Brightbill postcards [Germantown - Buildings - 100]
Accession number
Brightbill 100
100-a04-b
100-b08-b
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