Couldn't have done it without your help, Bill!
The centerpiece photo is an 1878 photograph by Schreiber of Philadelphia entitiled "Philadelphia Gun Club Shooting, 1878." Schreiber was a contemporary of Matthew Brady, and became famous for his farm landscapes and livestock photos after he gave the business to his sons.
The main building in the picture was the first PGC clubhouse, and was located on a piece of property owned by the family of one of the earliest PGC governors, Mr. Howell Bickley, and was close to the Biddle estate, "Andalusia", located north of the city of Philadelphia and hard by the Delaware River. The "Bickley Mansion", as it came to be known, served as the club grounds and venue from 1877 until 1894, when it moved a few miles upriver to its current location at Eddington on the Delaware. The photo became a reverse image in the famous Herman Simon painting, with the viewer looking over the left shoulders of the shooters and spectators, titled "Pigeon Shooting in 1878 at The Philadelphia Gun Club."
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