[Family group at back porch of Deshler-Morris House, 4782 Main St. Father, Bess, Hannah, Mother, Aunt Lydia, Uncle Charles Rhoads, Auntie Beulah. Geo. S. Morris & Catherine Harman. Germantown]
Morris, Marriott Canby
1863-1948
photographer
Deshler, David
architect
still image
Graphic
Glass negatives
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PA. Philadelphia
April 14, 1889
1889
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1 photograph: glass negative; 5 x 8 in.
Glass negative showing a group of Marriott C. Morris' family, including his aunt Beulah Sansom Rhoads, uncle Charles Rhoads, father Elliston P. Morris, sister Elizabeth Canby Morris, cousin Hannah Perot Morris, mother Martha Canby Morris, aunt Lydia Spencer Morris, and cousin George Spencer Morris, as well as Catherine Harman gathered on the Deshler-Morris House porch at 5442 Germantown Avenue. Three of the women and one man sit in chairs in the front row while another woman sits behind them. Three of the men and two of the women stand in the back. The women wear long, high-necked dresses. Three of the women wear bonnets. The men wear three piece suits. 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.
Forms part of Marriott C. Morris Collection.
Morris, Elliston P. (Elliston Perot)
1831-1914
Portraits
Morris, Martha Canby
1846-1919
Portraits
Morris, Elizabeth Canby
1867-1947
Portraits
Rhoads, Beulah Sansom Morris
1829-1923
Portraits
Rhoads, Charles
1828-1903
Portraits
Morris, George Spencer
1867-1922
Portraits
Morris, Hannah Perot
1854-1931
Morris, Lydia Spencer
1829-1903
Portraits
Harman, Catherine
approximately 1809-1891
Portraits
Morris family
Homes and haunts
Deshler-Morris House (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Dwellings
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
Fashion
Group portraits
Women
Germantown (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Germantown Avenue (Philadelphia, Pa.)
5442
*P.9895.1504
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Marriott C. Morris Collection [*P.9895.1504]
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