Details
Creator Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer.
Title In N.E. cor. of boys chamber at Westtown, showing Sam's bed (backgr[oun]d of picture) [graphic].
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1885
Date August 12, 1885
Physical Description 1 photograph: glass negative; 4 x 5 in.
Description Glass negative showing Marriott C. Morris' brother Samuel Buckley Morris' dormitory at Westtown Boarding School. Beds line each wall and fill the center of the room. Two columns in the center of the room support the slanted ceiling and a small metal stove stands next to the column on the right. Chairs stand next to the beds and a trunk sits at the foot of the bed in the foreground. Westtown Boarding School, a coeducational Quaker boarding school, opened in 1799. The first building on the campus was designed by David Evans, a Quaker architect. Later buildings included Industrial Hall, built in 1869, and the new main building, built in 1888 after designs by Quaker Addison Hutton (1834-1916). The first diploma was awarded in 1862.
Notes Time: 5:15
Light: Not much light.
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, Samuel Buckley, 1868-1886 -- Homes and haunts.
Westtown Boarding School.
Dwellings -- Pennsylvania -- Chester County.
Schools -- Pennsylvania -- Chester County.
Philadelphia artists.
Genre Glass negatives.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.688]
Accession number P.9895.688