Details
Creator Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer.
Title [C.L.] Eberle's [drug] store from our parlor window, (cor[ner] Church La[ne] & Main St[reet]) seen from 5442 [Germantown Avenue, Deshler-Morris House] [graphic].
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1883
Date 1883
Physical Description 1 photograph: glass negative; 4 x 5 in.
Description Glass negative showing a view of a three-story storefront owned by Charles L. Eberle at 4779 Main Street as seen from the Deshler-Morris House porch. The building is located on the corner of Main Street and Church Lane and has two floors above the shop on the first floor. Signage is visible on the side and partially on the front of the building and reads "C.L. Eberle." A canvas sign hangs across the sidewalk and reads "Miss Kate Cotton Millinery." A man stands on the sidewalk in front of the store next to a tall tree growing in a planter on the sidewalk. Eberle purchased this drug store from Abraham Rex in 1859. He retired in 1899.
Notes No. 13.
Photographer remarks: good.
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 Eberle, Charles Louis, 1837-1914 -- Homes and haunts.
Morris family -- Homes and haunts.
Storefronts -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Philadelphia artists.
Geographic subject Germantown Avenue (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 5400 block.
Genre Glass negatives.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.100.1]
Accession number P.9895.100.1