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Title: N. end of Electrical Building. Transportation B[ui]ld[in]g in distance
Description: Lantern slide showing a view of the Electrical Building, a large multi-story building adorned with arches, pillars, towers, and flags flying from rounded balconies designed by Van Brunt & Howe for the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago. Crowds of people gather in the street and on the bridges in front of the building. Various boats float on the water in front of the building. The Transportation Building with a rounded arch entryway stands in the background., Contains MCM stamp., 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.
Creator: Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer
Date: 1893
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.2168]

Title: Midway Plaisance-Dahomans
Description: Lantern slide showing a group of barefooted Black men Dahomans carrying a man in a fabric litter during the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893. The four men rest the wooden beams on top of their heads on head pads and hold their hands above their heads to support the beams. In the front left, the barechested man is attired in a necklace and a floral patterned sarong. In the front right, the man is attired in a sleeveless shirt with an American flag print, a belt with a pouch, and knee-length white shorts. In the right rear, the man is attired in a sleeveless white shirt, knee-length shorts, and an arm bracelet. In the background, white men and women spectators look on. The Kingdom of Dahomey was a West African kingdom located within present-day Benin that existed from approximately 1600 until 1904. Dahomey developed on the Abomey Plateau amongst the Fon people, a Gbe ethnic group., Contains MCM stamp. Title printed on label., Purchase 2001., Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022., 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.
Creator: Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer
Date: 1893
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.2169]

Title: Midway Plaisance-Cairo Street-Outrunners of Wedding Procession
Description: Lantern slide showing two men walking barefoot down a street. The men wear loose pants, textured vests, and turbans. Another man wearing a dark suit and hat stands behind the men facing the other direction., Contains MCM stamp. Title printed on label., 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.
Creator: Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer
Date: 1893
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.2170]

Title: View in Jefferson Park
Description: View showing three men standing on a stone footbridge spanning a creek in Jefferson Park, Chicago., Title printed on mount., Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Distributor's stamp on verso: From Pierce & Snyder, 122 Dearborn St., Chicago., Buff mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Melander, L. M.
Date: [ca. 1870]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Melander - Parks [P.9022.52]

Title: View in Lincoln Park
Description: View showing men, women and children sitting and standing around a pond in Lincoln Park, Chicago. Also shows geese in the water, a small gazebo, and trees., Title printed on mount., Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Distributor's stamp on verso: From Pierce & Snyder, 122 Dearborn St., Chicago., Buff mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Melander, L. M.
Date: [ca. 1870]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Melander - Parks [P.9022.53]

Title: First Methodist Episcopal Church, Clark and Washington sts
Description: View of the four-story building at the southeast corner of Clark and Washington Streets in Chicago that housed the First Methodist Episcopal Church on its upper floors from about 1857 until 1871. A signboard for the church is visible along with signs for a dentist and millinery & strawgoods store on the ground floor of the building. Businesses situated at the northeast corner of Clark and Washington Streets, including Bryant & Stratton's business college and Fifth National Bank, are also visible. Also depicts a large gas lamp in front of the Clark Street entrance to the church with "First Methodist Church" inscribed onto the glass panes. Building destroyed by the Great Fire of Chicago in 1871., Title and photographer's imprint printed on mount., Distributor's label pasted on verso: From James Cremer's stereoscopic emporium, 18 South Eighth St., Philadelphia. Family groups taken for the stereoscope, and photography in all its branches., Manuscript note on verso: Muschamp - 17, Yellow mount with rounded corners., Gift of Mr. Saul Koltnow., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., John Carbutt operated a photography studio and resided in Chicago from 1861-1870.
Creator: Carbutt, John, 1832-1905
Date: [ca. 1870]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Carbutt - Religion [P.9022.64]

Title: Grace Episcopal Church, Wabash av
Description: Oblique view of the church's third location designed by Loring & Jenney in 1868 on Wabash Avenue between 14th and 15th Streets in Chicago. Also shows adjacent dwellings and wooden sidewalk in the foreground., Title and photographer's imprint printed on mount., Distributor's label pasted on verso: From James Cremer's stereoscopic emporium, 18 South Eighth St., Philadelphia. Family groups taken for the stereoscope, and photography in all its branches., Manuscript note on verso: Muschamp - 12, Small, circular burn mark on left side of stereograph., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Gift of Mr. Saul Koltnow., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., John Carbutt operated a photography studio and resided in Chicago from 1861-1870.
Creator: Carbutt, John, 1832-1905
Date: [ca. 1870]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Carbutt - Religion [P.9022.65]

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