Details
Creator Brightbill, George M., collector.
Title Price Homestead, Ladies' Club House, Manheim Grounds postcards. [graphic].
Date ca. 1910
Physical Description 2 photomechanical prints (postcards): photolithograph, color; 9 x 15 cm.(3.5 x 5.5 in.)
Description Exterior views of the octagonal shaped Price Homestead, incorporated into the Germantown Cricket Club (or Manheim Grounds) as the Ladies' Club House. The ladies were responsible for maintaining the garden between the club and the dormitories. They were offered a bicycle membership in the winter months and were also provided with two putting greens. Whist matches (the forerunner of bridge) were popular in the 1890s.
Notes The Germantown Cricket Club was 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 (Gentlemen's 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 number: 100A06.
Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Subject Clubhouses -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Germantown (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Manheim Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- West -- 411.
Genre Photomechanical prints -- Color -- 1900-1910.
Postcards -- 1900-1910.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Brightbill postcards [Germantown - Buildings - 100]
Accession number Brightbill 100
100-a06-a