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Title: Bartram's House, Bartram's Garden
Description: Photograph showing Bartram's House, a two-story stone house with three engaged stone columns decorating the front facade. The house has three dormer windows on the roof and is surrounded by trees. Bartram’s Gardens, founded by American botanist John Bartram, is the oldest surviving botanic garden in North America. Built in 1728, the gardens cover forty-six acres with a focus in North American plants. The Gardens became a Philadelphia city park in 1891. Bartram’s stone house was originally built 1728-1731., Photograph from negative number 554., 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 21, 1888
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.2072]

Title: Bartram's House, Bartram's Garden
Description: Photograph showing Bartam's House, a two-story stone house with three engaged stone columns decorating the front facade. The house has three dormer windows on the roof and is surrounded by trees. Bartram’s Gardens, founded by American botanist John Bartram, is the oldest surviving botanic garden in North America. Built in 1728, the gardens cover forty-six acres with a focus in North American plants. The Gardens became a Philadelphia city park in 1891. Bartram’s stone house was originally built 1728-1731., Photograph from negative number 554., 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 21, 1888
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.2073]

Title: Schuylkill Front of Bartram House from N. [Sam in foreground]
Description: Photograph showing Bartram's House, a two-story stone house with three engaged stone columns decorating the front facade. The house has three dormer windows on the roof and is surrounded by trees. Marriott C. Morris' brother Samuel Buckley Morris sits in the front yard beneath a tree. Bartram’s Gardens, founded by American botanist John Bartram, is the oldest surviving botanic garden in North America. Built in 1728, the gardens cover forty-six acres with a focus in North American plants. The Gardens became a Philadelphia city park in 1891. Bartram’s stone house was originally built 1728-1731., Photograph from negative number 556., 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 21, 1888
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.2075]

Title: Bartram House from down in the Garden
Description: Photograph showing Bartram's House, a two-story stone house with engaged stone pillars and dormer windows seen from a garden. The garden is dotted with trees and shrubs and bordered by low, prickly plants. Fallen leaves cover the ground. Bartram’s Gardens, founded by American botanist John Bartram, is the oldest surviving botanic garden in North America. Built in 1728, the gardens cover forty-six acres with a focus in North American plants. The Gardens became a Philadelphia city park in 1891. Bartram’s stone house was originally built 1728-1731., Photograph from negative number 557., 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 21, 1888
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.2076]

Title: Window & Inscription. John Bartram 1770
Description: Photograph showing a window decorated with a carved volute border at the Bartram House. A stone plaque sits in the wall above the window surrounded by carved decorations. The plaque is inscribed: Tis God alone Almyty Lord, the Holy One by me adord. John Bartram 1770. A leafless vine climbs the wall to the left of the window., Photograph from negative number 1279., 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 28, 1888
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.2077]

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