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Title: Cape May Point, [NJ], from top of the lighthouse
Description: Glass negative showing a landscape view of Cape May Point taken from the top of the Cape May Lighthouse. Fields and buildings are visible below and the corner of a railing is visible in the foreground., Time: 12:45, Light: Faint sun., 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: April 16, 1887
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.1100]

Title: Boat on Lake Lily, Cape May Point, [NJ]. Gertie Hamilton & several other little girls on boat
Description: Glass negative showing a canoe holding one woman and four girls, including Gertie Hamilton, on Lake Lily, Cape May Point, N.J. The woman in the center of the canoe holds two oars. The far bank of the lake is lined with trees and various houses. The women and girls all wear hats and dresses., Time: 3:40, Light: good sunlight, 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: April 16, 1887
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.1101]

Title: Lighthouse at Cape May Point, [NJ]. Father & Bess in background, Mother in foregr[oun]d
Description: Glass negative showing a distant view of the Cape May Lighthouse, designed by army engineer William F. Raynolds (1820-1894), and its various outbuildings. A wide field surrounded by a fence is visible in the foreground. Marriott C. Morris' father Elliston P. Morris and sister Elizabeth Canby Morris stand next to the fence close to the lighthouse while his mother Martha Canby Morris stands in the field., Time: 12, Light: Good sun., The emulsion is flaking along the left edge of the plate., 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: April 16, 1887
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.1098]

Title: Lighthouse, Cape May Point. [NJ]
Description: Glass negative showing Cape May Lighthouse, designed by army engineer William F. Raynolds (1820-1894), with various outbuildings. A path leads toward the lighthouse across a wide field surrounded by a wooden fence., Photographer remarks: Upright on plate., Time: 12:10, Light: Good sun., 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: April 16, 1887
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.1099]

Title: [Group on beach, Cape May, New Jersey]
Description: View showing a group of people gathered on the beach in Cape May, New Jersey with large hotel buildings in the background. Several men and women wear bathing suits and are stretched out in the sand in the foreground. Others sit in chairs or stand with parasols. In the background, a large building with tall columns, probably Congress Hall, is partially visible., Title supplied by cataloger., Photographer's imprint on verso with printed list of fifty-three unnumbered views in the series., Buff mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Samuel C. Chester and Levin Corbin Handy partnered together in the 1880s.
Creator: Chester & Handy
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Chester & Handy [P.9260.11]

Title: [Stockton Hotel,] Cape May, N.J
Description: View showing guests sitting on the porch or piazza of the seaside hotel opened in 1869 on the entire block between Howard and Gurney streets and Columbia Avenue and the Atlantic Ocean. Depicts a row of tall columns and shuttered windows flanking the porch. The hotel, designed by S.D. Button, was damaged in the great fire of 1878, but endured. Demolished in 1910., Title printed on mount., Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Orange mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Trask & Bacon, a partnership between Albion K. P. Trask (1830-1900) and W. Frank Bacon (1843-1900), was active briefly in Philadelphia ca. 1875.
Creator: Trask & Bacon
Date: [ca. 1875]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Trask & Bacon [P.9260.80]

Title: Congress Hall, Cape May, N.J
Description: View showing one of the oldest seaside hotels, built in 1816 by Thomas Hughes, at Beach Drive and Congress Street. The hotel, originally called the "Big House," was renamed Congress Hall in 1828 when Hughes was elected to Congress. The grand lodging, able to accommodate 1000 guests, was destroyed by the great fire of 1878 and rebuilt in brick the following year. View includes a gazebo in the fenced courtyard., Black mount with rounded corners., Title from descriptive label pasted on verso., Contains label on verso describing the hotel, the proprietor J.F. Cake, and the West Jersey Railway Co., which provided service between Philadelphia and Cape May., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of New Jersey., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Souder & Nowell, a partnership between S.T. Souder and F.A. Nowell, was active in Philadelphia in 1874.
Creator: Souder & Nowell, photographer
Date: 1874
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Souder & Nowell - Cities & towns [5742.F.5a]

Title: Stockton Hotel, Cape May, N.J
Description: View showing the seaside hotel opened in 1869 on the entire block between Howard and Gurney streets and Columbia Avenue and the Atlantic Ocean. The hotel, destroyed in the great fire of 1878, was rebuilt, and destroyed again by fire in 1889. Includes horse-drawn carriages and guests standing near the entrance., Black mount with rounded corners., Title from descriptive label pasted on verso., Contains label on verso describing the hotel, proprietor Charles Duffy, and the West Jersey Railway Co., which provided transportation between Philadelphia and Cape May., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of New Jersey., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Souder & Nowell, a partnership between S.T. Souder and F.A. Nowell, was active in Philadelphia in 1874.
Creator: Souder & Nowell, photographer
Date: 1874
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Souder & Nowell - Cities & towns [5742.F.5c]

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