Details
Creator Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer.
Title Bockius house no. 4772 Main & Bruner's, (E[lliston] P. M[orris]'s) house, 4774, Main St. from the P[ost] O[ffice], [Germantown] [graphic].
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1889
Date April 17, 1889
Physical Description 1 photograph: glass negative; 5 x 8 in.
Description Glass negative showing the Bockius House at 5430 Germantown Avenue and Marriott C. Morris' father Elliston P. Morris' property at 5434 Germantown Avenue. Other houses extend to the right lining the brick road. Trolley tracks run down the center of the road. Trees and telephone poles stand in the sidewalk that separates the houses from the road. A boy leans against a telephone pole in front of a stone house with shuttered windows. The Bockius House was built for Albert Ashmead as a wedding gift. It was later occupied by Charles R. Bockius, and eventually Elliston Perot Morris, who remodeled it in 1903. 4774 Main Street (later 5434 Germantown Avenue) was owned by William Ashmead, a wagon manufacturer, after the American Revolution. Elliston Perot Morris bought the building in 1907.
Notes Time: 8:20
Light: Good sun.
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 Bockius, Charles, -1901 -- Homes and haunts.
Morris, Elliston P. (Elliston Perot), 1831-1914 -- Homes and haunts.
Bockius House (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Children.
Dwellings -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Philadelphia artists.
Geographic subject Germantown (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Germantown Avenue (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 5430-5434.
Genre Glass negatives.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Marriott C. Morris Collection [*P.9895.1506]
Accession number *P.9895.1506