Details
Creator Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer.
Title Interior of [Mana]squan meeting house, showing front door & S.W. cor[ner], [Manasquan, NJ] [graphic].
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1885
Date August 31, 1885
Physical Description 1 photograph: glass negative; 4 x 5 in.
Description Glass negative showing an interior room of the Old Friend's Meeting House in Manasquan, N.J. filled with wooden benches. A small stove sits in the center of the room. The front door is open and windows on both walls let in sunlight. The Manasquan Friends Meeting House was built circa 1730. Originally a two-story structure, it was remodeled into a one-story building in 1812 after storm damage in 1808. The original Meeting House was sold in 1885 and a new building built a year later.
Notes Photographer remarks: Taken from gallery. Torn down 9/1886.
Time: 12:20
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 Manasquan Friends Meetinghouse (Manasquan, N.J.)
Friends' meeting houses -- New Jersey -- Manasquan.
Philadelphia artists.
Geographic subject Manasquan (N.J.)
Genre Glass negatives.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.727]
Accession number P.9895.727