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Title: Wyck, front bedroom
Description: Interior view of bedroom, showing a four poster bed, two clothes chests and chairs lining the wall. Earliest section of the house built circa 1690 by Hans Milan. Center section and alterations were designed and completed by William Strickland in 1824. For nine generations belonged to the Wistar-Haines family., Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Title given in manuscript on mount.
Creator: Bullock, John G., 1854-1939, photographer
Date: ca 1913
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern - Bullock [P.9731.57]

Title: Anne M. Wistar's room at Howard Comfort's. Anne at desk
Description: Glass negative showing Marriott Morris' second cousin Anne Morris Wistar seated at a desk in a richly decorated interior in the residence of her brother-in-law Howard Comfort. Photographs decorate the desk, dresser, mirror and walls. Other decorations include fans, hats, scarves and a floral wallpaper. Wistar wears a high-necked dress with a bustle., Time: 5:45, 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: February 16, 1888
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.1257]

Title: Different view of Anne M. Wistar's room at Comfort's
Description: Glass negative showing a richly decorated interior room occupied by Marriott Morris' second cousin Anne Morris Wistar in the residence of her brother-in-law Howard Comfort. Photographs line the mantle and hang on the walls. A Chinese scroll hangs from the door and a bookshelf on the left wall. A small table stands in the center of the room filled with books and an easel holding a panting., Photographer remarks: Intens. 4 mo. '88., Time: 6, 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: February 16, 1888
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.1258]

Title: M[arriott] C. M[orris]'s room over little parlor, 5442 [Germantown Avenue, Deshler-Morris House]
Description: Glass negative showing a view of Marriott C. Morris' room in the Deshler-Morris House at 5442 Germantown Avenue. The walls are decorated with floral wallpaper. On the right wall is a large mantle holding various candlesticks and a clock. A framed portrait photograph hangs above the mantle. A chair sits beneath the window to the left and a dresser with a mirror stands against the left wall. 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., 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: 1887
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.64.10]

Title: Arnold mansion postcards
Description: Depicts the front facade from the garden and a detailed view of the pediment over the front doorway. Includes interior views of the right and left sides of the entrance hall, the great chamber, the parlor, and a bedroom., Contains 1 postcard printed in color and 9 printed in black and white., Mount Pleasant Mansion was built 1761-1765 for Captain John Macpherson after the designs of Thomas Nevil in Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, Pa. Macpherson, a privateer during the Seven Years’ War, purchased the estate with profits from these operations. Free white and Black laborers, indentured servants, and at least four enslaved people of African descent, whose names are unknown, worked on the plantation. In 1779, General Benedict Arnold purchased Mount Pleasant for his wife Peggy Shippen, but they never occupied the house. In 1792, General Jonathan Williams purchased the mansion. The City of Philadelphia purchased the property from the Williams family in 1869. On behalf of the city, the Philadelphia Museum of Art restored the house in 1926., Purchase 1984. Accessioned 2005., Accession numbers: P.2005.3.26 - 32, P.9048.5, P.9048.217 and P.9048.303., Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022.
Date: 1905-1926
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department LCP postcards - Residences A - M - [various]

Title: [Interior views of the McAllister Residence, 14 North Merrick Street, West Penn Square, Philadelphia]
Description: Interior views of John McAllister Jr.'s residence on West Penn Square showing bedrooms, parlors, the main staircase, and the furniture and artwork decorating the rooms and walls, including a fireplace and mantle, piano, paintings, tables, chairs, mirrors, beds, and wash basins. Several views include John McAllister, Jr., with an unidentified man in one view, sitting in chairs in a parlor., Title supplied by cataloger., Yellow mounts with rounded corners., One item [P.9389.2] reproduced in The Print and Photograph Department of the Library Company of Philadelphia's Center City Philadelphia in the 19th century (Portsmouth, N.H.: Arcadia Publishing, 2006), p. 26., Arcadia caption text: ... This house, built around 1835 on North Merrick Street, was one of a growing number of large double townhouses that lined Penn Square by the end of the 1830s. ... The image below provides a partial view of two of the bedrooms., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: [ca. 1870]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unidentified - Residences [P.9389.1-9]

Title: J[ane] R[hoads] M[orris] Room, 6706 Cresheim Rd., [Germantown, PA]
Description: Glass negative showing a view of an interior with a desk, dressing table, and mantle in Marriott C. Morris' home at 6706 Cresheim Road. Drawings and paintings hang on the walls and photographs decorate the furniture., Originally housed in negative box inscribed “Bought 12/27, 1899.”, 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: January 1899
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [*P.2013.13.560]

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