Creator |
Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer. |
Title |
Group in our garden. Germantown, 5/5 '87. [Group in our Garden. Cos. Lill, Bella, & Edith & Morris Wistar. Cos Lizzie & John
& Anchen Morris & Bess] [graphic].
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Publisher |
PA. Philadelphia. 1887 |
Date |
May 5, 1887 |
Physical Description |
1 photograph: gelatin silver print; 6 x 7 in. |
Description |
Photograph showing a group portrait in a garden at the Deshler-Morris House, including Marriott C. Morris' sister Elizabeth
Canby Morris, third cousins Elizabeth Morris Wistar, John Stokes Morris, and Anna Stokes Morris, third cousins once removed
Anabelle Wistar, Edith Wistar, and Joshua Morris Wistar, and second cousin once removed Elizabeth Stokes Morris, . Two of
the women sit in the front row with a girl leaning against the woman on the left and a boy leaning against the woman on the
right. The others stand behind them. David Deshler built the original four-room summer cottage on this Germantown lot in 1752,
adding the three-story front addition in 1772. The house was sold to Col. Isaac Franks in 1792 after Deshler’s death. President
George Washington rented the home for the duration of the yellow fever epidemic of 1793 and the summer of 1794. Elliston and
John Perot purchased the house in 1804, selling it to Elliston’s son-in-law Samuel B. Morris after his death in 1834. The
house stayed in the possession of the Morris family for over a century, when Elliston P. Morris donated the house to the National
Parks Service in 1948. The name was officially changed to the Germantown White House in 2009.
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Notes |
Photograph from negative number 1120. |
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Digitization and cataloging has been made possible through the generosity of David Marriott Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris
Cox, and William Perot Morris in memory of Marriott Canby Morris and his children: Elliston Perot Morris, Marriott Canby Morris
Jr., and Janet Morris and in acknowledgment of his grandchildren: William Perot Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, Jonathan
White Morris, and David Marriott Morris.
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Edited. |
Subject |
Morris, Anna Stokes, 1879-1935 -- Portraits. |
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Morris, Elizabeth Canby, 1867-1947 -- Portraits. |
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Morris family -- Homes and haunts. |
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Morris, John Stokes, 1873-1911 -- Portraits. |
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Morris, Elizabeth Stokes, 1850- -- Portraits. |
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Wistar, Anabelle Cresson, 1872- -- Portraits. |
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Wistar, Elizabeth Buckley Morris, 1849-1925 -- Portraits. |
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Wistar, Edith, 1874-1909 -- Portraits. |
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Wistar, Joshua Morris, 1879-1958 -- Portraits. |
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Deshler-Morris House (Philadelphia, Pa.) |
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Children. |
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Gardens -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. |
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Group portraits. |
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Girls. |
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Women. |
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Philadelphia artists. |
Geographic subject |
Germantown (Philadelphia, Pa.) |
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Germantown Avenue (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 5442. |
Genre |
Gelatin silver prints. |
Location |
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9986.4] |
Accession number |
P.9986.4 |