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Creator Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer.
Title Group in our parlor. Father, Cos. H[annah] P[erot] Morris, Auntie Beulah & Uncle Chas. Rhoads, Bess, Geo. S. Morris, Mother & Aunt Lydia Morris, also dog "Jet," [Deshler-Morris House, 5442 Germantown Avenue] [graphic].
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1888
Date May 17, 1888
Physical Description 1 photograph: glass negative; 4 x 5 in.
Description Glass negative showing a group posed in a decorated interior of the Deshler-Morris House at 5442 Germantown Avenue, including Marriott Morris' parents Elliston P. Morris and Martha Canby Morris, sister Elizabeth Canby Morris, cousin George Spencer, aunts Lydia Morris and Beulah Rhoads, uncle Charles Rhoads, and secon cousin once removed Hannah Perot Morris. Charles Rhoads and Hannah Morris stand in the back while the others sit. Elizabeth Morris, in the center of the group, holds a small black dog, Jet, in her lap. The men wear three-piece suits and the women wear dark-colored dresses. 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 Time: 9 P.M.
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.
Morris, Elliston P. (Elliston Perot), 1831-1914 -- Portraits.
Morris, Martha Canby, 1846-1919 -- Portraits.
Morris, Elizabeth Canby, 1867-1947 -- Portraits.
Morris, George Spencer, 1867-1922 -- Portraits.
Morris, Hannah Perot, 1854-1931 -- Portraits.
Morris, Lydia Spencer, 1829-1903 -- Portraits.
Rhoads, Beulah Sansom Morris, 1829-1923 -- Portraits.
Rhoads, Charles, 1828-1903 -- Portraits.
Deshler-Morris House (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Animals.
Dogs.
Dwellings -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Group portraits.
Fashion.
Parlors -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Pets.
Women.
Philadelphia artists.
Geographic subject Germantown (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Germantown Avenue (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 5442.
Genre Glass negatives.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.1294]
Accession number P.9895.1294