Details
Creator Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer.
Title Bruner & George Livery & Boarding stables, Germantown Avenue, Germantown [graphic].
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1890
Date 1890
Physical Description 1 photograph: glass negative; 6.5 x 8.5 in.
Description Glass negative showing a view Bruner & George Livery at 5434 Germantown Avenue, a two-story stone building. Trolley tracks line the brick road in front of the building. A second two-story building on the right has a blacony on the third floor and a fence extending from the right side. A sign that reads "Bruner & George Livery & Boarding Stables" hangs on the side wall between the buildings. Bruner and George were a livery and boarding stables in Germantown, Philadelphia owned by Henry B. Bruner and Riter W. George. The business existed from circa 1858 to circa 1918. This property was owned by William Ashmead, a wagon manufacturer, after the American Revolution. Elliston Perot Morris bought the building in 1907.
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, Elliston P. (Elliston Perot), 1831-1914 -- Homes and haunts.
Bruner & George.
Commercial streets -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Stables -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Philadelphia artists.
Geographic subject Germantown (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Germantown Avenue (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 5434.
Genre Glass negatives.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Marriott C. Morris Collection [*P.9895.7.8]
Accession number *P.9895.7.8