[Sallie, Mary, & Anne Emlen, Mr. Heins, Jennie Jones, Alice Shipley & Bess. Deshler-Morris House, 5442 Germantown Avenue]
Morris, Marriott Canby
1863-1948
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Glass negatives
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PA. Philadelphia
May 19, 1887
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1 photograph: glass negative; 4 x 5 in.
Glass negative showing Sallie Emlen, Mary Emlen, Anne Emlen, Mr. Heins, Jennie Jones, Alice Shipley, Marriott Canby Morris and his sister Elizabeth Canby Morris in the Deshler-Morris House garden at 5442 Germantown Avenue. Three of the women sit on a bench while one reclines in the grass at their feet. Two of the women and the men stand behind the bench. The women wear high-necked dresses with hats while the men wear 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, Marriott Canby
1863-1948
Portraits
Morris, Elizabeth Canby
1867-1947
Portraits
Emlen, Sarah
1861-
Portraits
Emlen, Mary
1863-
Portraits
Emlen, Anne
1865-
Portraits
Jones, Jennie
Portraits
Halsey, Alice Drinker Shipley
1862-1931
Portraits
Morris family
Homes and haunts
Deshler-Morris House (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Fashion
Gardens
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
Group portraits
Women
Germantown (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Germantown Avenue (Philadelphia, Pa.)
5442
P.9895.1127
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Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.1127]
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