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Front of [Deshler-Morris House], 5442 [Germantown Avenue] (copy) small [graphic].
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Creator
Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer.
Contributor
Deshler, David, architect.
Title
Front of [Deshler-Morris House], 5442 [Germantown Avenue] (copy) small [graphic].
Publisher
PA. Philadelphia. 1880-1900
Date
ca. 1880-ca. 1900
Physical Description
1 photograph: glass negative; 4 x 5 in.
Description
Glass negative showing a photograph mounted and resting on a easel of the Deshler-Morris House at 5442 Germantown Avenue. In the photograph, a boy rides a bicycle down the sidewalk in front of the wooden fence that stands to the left of the house. 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.
Notes
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.
Edited.
Subject
Morris family -- Homes and haunts.
Deshler-Morris House (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Dwellings -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Photographs.
Philadelphia artists.
Geographic subject
Germantown (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Germantown Avenue (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 5442.
Genre
Glass negatives.
Associated name
Deshler, David, architect.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.99.10]
Accession number
P.9895.99.10
In Collections
Marriott C. Morris Collection Negatives
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