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Title: Point Breeze Park, schottisch
Description: 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.
Creator: Corrie, George J., composer
Date: [ca. 1858]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books Rare Sheet Music Poi 10074.F (Doret)

Title: The second great match game for the championship, between the Athletic Base Ball Club of Philadelphia and the Atlantics of Brooklyn, on the grounds of the Athletics, Fifteenth & Columbia Avenue, Phila., Oct. 22nd, 1866
Description: Genre print depicting the Philadelphia Athletics and the Brooklyn Atlantics during a game in the Athletics field at Fifteenth Street and Columbia Avenue. The Brooklyn Atlantics are in the outfield, and an Athletics player positions himself to receive a pitch. In the foreground, two men sit at a table on the sidelines, three sit on chairs and other spectators watch the game, engage in fights, or keep score. In the left background, a low stand crowded with spectators is visible. The park is fenced and surrounded by trees. The names of each player and the umpire, and inning scores are included near the title. Formed in 1860 by James N. Kerns, the Philadelphia Athletics helped establish the National Association of Professional Baseball Players (NA) in 1871., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, Smithsonian Institution NMAH H&CL - Harry T. Peters America on Stone Collection [DL *60.2809]
Creator: Magee, John L., artist
Date: c1867
Location: Smithsonian Institution | NMAH Home and Community Life Collection SI NMAH H&CL - Harry T. Peters America on Stone Collection [DL *60.2809]

Title: [The Germantown Cricket Club]
Description: Lively view showing several spectators enjoying a match at the grounds of the cricket club (founded in 1854) at 411 West Manheim Street. Elegantly attired young men and women, walk, sit, and stand along the field and in a grandstand. Attire includes hats, bowlers, bustles, canes and parasols. In the right of the image, a lady converses with a cricket player near a couple conversing with spectators behind the brickwall of the stand. Others watch from a row of carriages near club buildings in the background. Several persons walk along a path bordering the field. Also contains 2 ink pen lithograph vignettes showing the front facade of the clubhouse and the gate to the club. Clubhouse vignette includes a cricket match. The clubhouse was built in 1891 after designs by McKim, Mead & White., Artist's signature in ink with date and in pencil in lower right corner., Title supplied by cataloger., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 91, Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., LCP AR [Annual Report] 1978 p. 53-54., Gift of Mrs. Francis P. Garvan.
Creator: Cooper, Colin Campbell, Jr., artist
Date: 1892
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **BW - Recreation - G [8384.F.2]

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