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Title: Veteran Wheelman Asso[ciation] at the Penn Hotel
Description: Photograph showing the Veteran Wheelmen’s Association, a group of men posing on a road with their bicycles. Some men stand propping up their bicycles while two men sit in the middle. A sign pointing toward Willow Grove is visible behind the group. Most of the men wear suits and hats. The Veteran Wheelman’s Association was a Philadelphia cycling club formed in 1908., Manuscript note on the envelope: Lockhart, Arth. Vickery, Maurice A. Peuncy, 1437 Walnut, C.H.C. Cunningham, August C. Frank., 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: Fall 1921
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.2013.13.642]

Title: Veteran Wheelman Asso[ciation] at the Penn Hotel
Description: Photograph showing the Veteran Wheelmen’s Association, a group of men posing on a road with their bicycles. Some men stand propping up their bicycles while two men sit in the middle. A sign pointing toward Willow Grove is visible behind the group. Most of the men wear suits and hats. The Veteran Wheelman’s Association was a Philadelphia cycling club formed in 1908., Manuscript note on the envelope: Lockhart, Arth. Vickery, Maurice A. Peuncy, 1437 Walnut, C.H.C. Cunningham, August C. Frank., 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: Fall 1921
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.2013.13.643]

Title: Veteran Wheelman Asso[ciation] at the Penn Hotel
Description: Photograph showing the Veteran Wheelmen’s Association, a group of men posing on a road with their bicycles. Some men stand propping up their bicycles while two men sit in the middle. A sign pointing toward Willow Grove is visible behind the group. Most of the men wear suits and hats. The Veteran Wheelman’s Association was a Philadelphia cycling club formed in 1908., Manuscript note on the envelope: Lockhart, Arth. Vickery, Maurice A. Peuncy, 1437 Walnut, C.H.C. Cunningham, August C. Frank., 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: Fall 1921
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.2013.13.644]

Title: Veteran Wheelman Asso[ciation] at the Penn Hotel
Description: Photograph showing the Veteran Wheelmen’s Association, a group of men posing on a road with their bicycles. Some men stand propping up their bicycles while two men sit in the middle. A sign pointing toward Willow Grove is visible behind the group. Most of the men wear suits and hats. The Veteran Wheelman’s Association was a Philadelphia cycling club formed in 1908., Manuscript note on the envelope: Lockhart, Arth. Vickery, Maurice A. Peuncy, 1437 Walnut, C.H.C. Cunningham, August C. Frank., 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: Fall 1921
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.2013.13.645]

Title: [Group portrait of cyclists], Audubon
Description: Film negative showing a group of men, women, and one boy posed for a portrait. Some stand on a wooden platform, others stand on the ground propping up bicycles. One man sits on the ground while another kneels next to him. Most of the men wear three-piece suits and hats while the women wear long skirts and white blouses., 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: May 19, 1908
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.2013.13.232]

Title: [Group outside a cabin], Pocono Lake, [PA]
Description: Film negative showing a group sitting around a table outside a cabin at Pocono Lake. A woman walks down the front steps toward the table and a bicyce leans agains the cabin on the right. The Pocono Lake Preserve was pioneered by a group of Quakers, including Isaac Sharpless, who camped in the area in 1904. In 1908, this group bought the property from the Pocono Mountain Ice Company and designed it as a basic, rustic campground., June 30 - July 5, 1909., 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: 1909
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.2013.13.360]

Title: " How do debble does dey make a bicycle?" = Como diablos se hacen los bicírculos?
Description: Racist, genre scene showing an African American boy, seated on his knees, in a room with a dirt floor and strewn rubbish. His right hand is raised to his head, and he holds a tire pump and broken bicycle tire in his left hand. The boy, attired in a long-sleeved shirt, pants, and suspenders looks down with a look of anguish at the rubber tire pulled off of its hub. Behind the boy is a cot covered with haphazard-placed mounds of bedding. To his left, a cat stands in front of a wooden chair on which an empty glass bottle rests. Scene also includes a wooden storage cabinet in the right., Date from copyright statement: Copyright 1891 by Stohmeyer & Wyman., Curved buff mount with rounded corners., RVCDC, Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022., Gift of David Long.
Creator: Strohmeyer & Wyman
Date: 1891
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - misc. photo. - Strohmeyer & Wyman [P.2018.16.5]

Title: [Washington Monument, Green Street entrance to Fairmount Park, Philadelphia.]
Description: View of the equestrian statue of George Washington on a pedestal above allegorical figures, along with "typical" American people. Photographer William Doering (left), Albert Lindsay (center) and an unidentified man stand in front of the monument with their bicycles. Other men admire the monument in the background. Designed by Rudolf Siemering in 1897 and unveiled at the Green Street entrance to Fairmount Park. Moved to the end of the Benjamin Franklin Parkway in front of the Philadelphia Museum of Art in 1928. Depicts the monument at Green Street entrance., Title supplied by cataloguer., Monument commissioned by the Society of the Cincinnati of Pennsylvania, whose members were descendants of Washington's soldiers., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
Creator: Doering, William Harvey, 1858-1924, photographer
Date: ca. 1897
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern slides - Doering [P.9453.34]

Title: [William Doering bicycling, Long Island, N.Y.]
Description: Depicts William Doering, photographer, bicycling along a path near tall pointed hedges. A man is standing on a ladder and lighting street lamps near the road. Another man stands behind a carriage in the background., Title supplied by cataloguer., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
Creator: Doering, William Harvey, 1858-1924, photographer
Date: ca. 1900
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern slides - Doering [P.9453.207]

Title: [Bicycling trip, with Al Lindsay and William Doering in Fairmount Park, Philadelphia.]
Description: Depicts Al Lindsay (standing in the foreground) and William Doering (photographer, right of Al Lindsay) posed with three other men with their bicycles on a trail in Fairmount Park., Title supplied by cataloguer., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
Creator: Doering, William Harvey, 1858-1924, photographer
Date: ca. 1895
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern slides - Doering [P.9453.165]

Title: [Bicycling trip, William Doering drinking from fountain, Fairmount Park, Philadelphia.]
Description: Depicts William Doering (photographer) drinking water from a fountain in Fairmount Park. His bicycle rests against the stone wall behind him., Title supplied by cataloguer., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
Creator: Doering, William Harvey, 1858-1924, photographer
Date: ca. 1895
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern slides - Doering [P.9453.167]

Title: "Have dinner at one dear."
Description: Genre scene satirizing the "new woman" and the role of women in the home. Shows the lady of the house dressed in bloomers (bicycle garb) with her back to her children who play with toys on the floor. With her bicycle by her side, she tells her husband, who is washing clothes, to have dinner ready by one., Copyrighted 1897 by William H. Rau on negative., Additional places of publication printed on mount, including Chicago; Hamburg, Germany, and Milan, Italy., Title on negative., Distributor's imprint printed on mount., Buff curved mount with rounded corners., Griffith & Griffith, established in Philadelphia in 1896, expanded in 1908 to included offices in St. Louis and Liverpool. The non-Philadelphia offices were relocated in 1910., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Erika Piola.
Creator: Rau, William Herman, 1855-1920, photographer
Date: c1897
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Rau - Portraits & genre [P.2003.32.2]

Title: Portion of our party in park back of Hamilton Hotel, [Bermuda]
Description: Glass negative showing a group of men and women in a garden behind the Hamilton Hotel. Some sit, some stand, and others lean against their bicycles., Photographer remarks: N.E. Luscher? took off cap., Time: 1, Light: Good light, no 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: March 15, 1886
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.857]

Title: [Portion of our party in park back of Hamilton Hotel, Bermuda]
Description: Glass negative showing a group of men and women in a garden behind the Hamilton Hotel. Some sit, some stand, and others lean against their bicycles., Photographer remarks: Underdeveloped, Time: 1:05, Same as last., 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: March 15, 1886
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.858]

Title: [Copy of Hinkle's picture of Deshler-Morris House, 4782 Main Street. To send with Perot Reunion invitations]
Description: Glass negative showing a view of the Deshler-Morris House (later 5442 Germantown Avenue), a two-story stone house seen from across a brick road. The house has shuttered windows and ivy climbing the walls. A boy rides a bicycle in front of the wooden fence that extends from the left side of the building. 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., Title supplied by cataloger., David Hinkle (1836-1916) was a popular studio photographer in Germantown around the 1860s., 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: ca. 1889
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [*P.9895.10.3]

Title: Copy of Hinkle's picture of our [Deshler-Morris] house 4782 Main St. To send with Perot Reunion invitations
Description: Glass negative showing a mounted photo of the Deshler-Morris House, a two-story house with shuttered windows and two chimneys at 5442 Germantown Avenue. The house is surrounded by trees and a boy rides a bicycle on the sidewalk. 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., David Hinkle (1836-1916) was a popular studio photographer in Germantown around the 1860s., Time: 3:20, Light: Fair 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: January 10, 1889
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.1388]

Title: [Man on a bicycle], Sea Girt, NJ
Description: Film negative showing a man riding a bicycle on a path in front of a two-story house at Sea Girt. A field and a barn are visible in the distance., August & September, 1908., 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: 1908
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.2013.13.291]

Title: [William and Karl Doering bicycling past St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Old York Road and Ashbourn Avenue, Elkins Park, Pa.]
Description: Depicts William and Karl Doering (photographer with son) bicycling on a wide road near St. Paul's Episcopal Church. The clock tower is visible in the background., Title supplied by cataloguer., Church built in 1861 after designs by James C. Sidney and altered in 1922 after designs by Horace Trumbauer., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
Creator: Doering, William Harvey, 1858-1924, photographer
Date: ca. 1900
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern slides - Doering [P.9453.201]

Title: [Bicycling trip, with William, Catharine Rupp and Karl Doering.]
Description: Depicts William Doering (photographer), Catharine Rupp Doering (wife of the photographer) and Karl Doering (son of the photographer) bicycling along a wide path flanked by large trees., Title supplied by cataloguer., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
Creator: Doering, William Harvey, 1858-1924, photographer
Date: ca. 1900
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern slides - Doering [P.9453.205]

Title: [William and Catharine Rupp Doering bicycling, Long Island, N.Y.]
Description: Depicts William Doering, photographer, and wife, Catharine Rupp Doering, bicycling along a path near tall pointed hedges., Title supplied by cataloguer., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
Creator: Doering, William Harvey, 1858-1924, photographer
Date: ca. 1900
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern slides - Doering [P.9453.206]

Title: [William and Catharine Rupp Doering bicycling, Long Island, N.Y.]
Description: Depicts William Doering, photographer, and wife, Catharine Rupp Doering, bicycling along a tree-lined path. An unidentified man rides beside them. Two large homes are visible in the background., Title supplied by cataloguer., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
Creator: Doering, William Harvey, 1858-1924, photographer
Date: ca. 1900
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern slides - Doering [P.9453.208]

Title: [Group bicycling along driveway of large house, Long Island, N.Y.]
Description: Depicts two women and a man, one of them probably Catharine Rupp Doering, bicycling along an entrance drive, away from the large dwelling in the background., Title supplied by cataloguer., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
Creator: Doering, William Harvey, 1858-1924, photographer
Date: ca. 1900
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern slides - Doering [P.9453.209]

Title: [Bicycling trip, William Harvey and Catharine Rupp Doering and friends.]
Description: Depicts a group of four men, three women and one boy with bicycles on the side of a road, including Karl Doering (son of the photographer), Catharine Rupp Doering (wife of the photographer), William Harvey Doering (photographer), Mrs. Schwarts (photographer's sister), her husband Al Schwarts and Al Lindsay., Title supplied by cataloguer., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
Creator: Doering, William Harvey, 1858-1924, photographer
Date: ca. 1900
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern slides - Doering [P.9453.190]

Title: The new woman--wash day
Description: Genre scene satirizing the "new woman" and the role reversal of men and women in the home. Depicts a woman attired in bloomers and gloves (bicycle garb), with one foot propped on a chair as she smokes. Her husband bends over the wash tub and wrings an article of clothing as he does her laundry, some of which dries above their heads on a line. The woman's bicycle is propped near the door., Additional places of publication printed on mount include: London; Toronto-Canada; Ottawa-Kansas., Printed on mount: Works and studios. Arlington, N.J.; Littleton, N.H.; and Washington, D.C., Sun sculpture trademark printed on mount., Title printed on mount., Publisher's imprint printed on mount., Title also printed on verso in five additional languages., Buff curved mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Erika Piola.
Date: c1901
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Underwood & Underwood - Portraits & genre [P.9998]

Title: Rolling cigarette
Description: Illustrated trade card for W. Duke Sons & Co., a manufacturing branch of the American Tobacco Co., depicting a female bicycle and trick rider performing in costume. She rolls a cigarette and sits on a penny-farthing or high wheeled bicycle. Also includes a small vignette of a bicycle on verso., Advertising text printed on verso promotes "Honest long cut, the best smoking and chewing tobacco.", One of twenty-five cards included with tobacco packages and issued as one of a series by the American Tobacco Co., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Helen Beitler., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1890]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - American Tobacco [P.2002.9.2]

Title: [Woman with bicycle at entrance gate, Sea Girt]
Description: Film negative showing a woman with a bicycle standing next to a wooden fence with an elaborately decorated gate at Sea Girt. A bust statue (possibly Shem Pearce) stands in the pinnacle above the gate, 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: Summer 1907
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.2013.13.75]

Title: [Marriott Canby Morris Jr. with bicycle, Spring Lake, NJ]
Description: Film negative showing Marriott C. Morris' son Marriott C. Morris Jr. as a boy walking in the grass near Wreck Pond. He wears short pants, a long coat, and a wide-brimmed hat. A bicycle leans against a tree to the left and a bench sits overlooking the pond behind him. The Monmouth House is visible over the water in the distance. Monmouth House was the first major hotel in Spring Lake, completed in 1876. It burned down in 1900, was rebuilt, and remained until 1974. Spring Lake was a coastal resort area popular in the late 19th and early 20th century., 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: Summer 1907
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.2013.13.102]

Title: Our dining room [in Avocado] at Sea Girt, [NJ], from pantry door
Description: Glass negative showing the interior of the dining room at the Morris family summer home, Avocado, furnished with a table and chairs. A bicycle sits in the corner of the room and a shelf holding various vases, a lamp, and a clock sits on the adjacent wall. Elliston Perot Morris bought property in Sea Girt, N.J. in 1875, where he built the summer home Avocado after designs by Quaker architect Hibberd Yarnall. Morris left Avocado, named after a Perot family estate in Bermuda, to his daughter Elizabeth Canby Morris in his will. It was sold in 1947 after her death. By 1958 the house had been demolished., Time: 2, Light: Cloudy day., 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: September 10, 1886
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.1018]

Title: [Side view of Avocado, Sea Girt, NJ]
Description: Glass negative showing a side view of the Morris family home Avocado, a multi-story house featuring a wide porch, a tower with a balcony and tracery decoration. A woman stands on the porch and a bicycle leans against the railing beneath her. Trees grow on the left side of the house. Elliston Perot Morris bought property in Sea Girt, N.J. in 1875, where he built the summer home Avocado after designs by Quaker architect Hibberd Yarnall. Morris left Avocado, named after a Perot family estate in Bermuda, to his daughter Elizabeth Canby Morris in his will. It was sold in 1947 after her death. By 1958 the house had been demolished., 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.9895.6.10]

Title: Don on back porch at Olney with H[annah] P[erot] M[orris]
Description: Glass negative showing Marriott Morris' cousin Hannah Perot Morris and Don, a speckle-coated dog, sitting on the porch at the residence of her father Samuel Morris. A neat hedge lines the path leading to the house and vines climb up the pillars of the porch. A bicycle leans against the wall in the background behind a rocking horse. Morris wears a long, high-necked dress and a hat., Photographer remarks: Overtimed., Time: 12:45, 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 26, 1888
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.1270]

Title: Elwell's Bicycle Party (all but 7) on croquet ground back of Hamilton Hotel, [Bermuda]
Description: Glass negative showing a large group of men and women gathered on a covered porch decorated with latticework behind Hamilton Hotel. Some of the men and women stand, and others sit on chairs in front of the railing. A bicycle with a large from wheel sits on the left. The women wear long high-necked dresses and hats while the men wear three-piece suits and hats. Frank A. Elwell was part of the League of American Wheelmen and conducted bicycle tours through Europe, America, and Bermuda beginning around 1884. He added ladies tours in 1892., Time: PM, Light: Good light. No 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: March 21, 1886
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.873]

Title: [Elwell's Bicycle Party (all but 7) on croquet ground, back of Hamilton Hotel, Bermuda]
Description: Glass negative showing a large group of men and women gathered on a covered porch decorated with latticework behind Hamilton Hotel. Some of the men and women stand, and others sit on chairs in front of the railing. A bicycle with a large from wheel sits on the left. The women wear long high-necked dresses and hats while the men wear three-piece suits and hats. Frank A. Elwell was part of the League of American Wheelmen and conducted bicycle tours through Europe, America, and Bermuda beginning around 1884. He added ladies tours in 1892., The upper left corner of the negative is missing., Same as last., Photographer remarks: Better negative- W.A. French took off cap for this & last one, no. 873., 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: March 21, 1886
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.874]

Title: Elliston & Marriott & bicycles Villa Park, [NJ]
Description: Film negative showing Marriott C. Morris' sons Elliston Perot Morris Jr. and Marriott Canby Morris Jr. as boys wheeling bicycles down a road next to a lake in Villa Park. The boys wear white shirts, hats, and ties. A house is visible across the lake in the background. Spring Lake was a coastal resort area popular in the late 19th and early 20th century. The Villa Park area was first owned and developed by William Reid and John Rodgers in 1875. Villa Park became a part of Spring Lake after the latter’s incorporation in 1892., Inscription on negative: E + M at Villa Park 6/23, 1912, Originally located in negative album [P.2013.13a], 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: June 23, 1912
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.2013.13.506]

Title: Marriott & Janet by tandem bicycle, Cedar Mer [Sea Girt, NJ]
Description: Film negative showing Marriott C. Morris' children Janet Morris and Marriott C. Morris Jr. as young children standing next to a tadem bicycle propped against a tree at Cedar Mer. Marriott Morris Jr. wears a white shirt, hat, and glasses, and uses a pump on the rear tire. Janet Morris wears a white dress and ribbons in her hair and stands to the right. Elliston Perot Morris bought property in Sea Girt, N.J. in 1875, where he built the summer homes Avocado and Cedar Mer. Morris left Cedar Mer to his son Marriott Canby Morris in his will. It was sold in 1951 after his death. By 1958 the house had been demolished., Inscription on negative: Marriott + Janet Sea Girt 9/1912, Originally located in negative album [P.2013.13a], 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: September 1912
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.2013.13.520]

Title: M[arriott] C[anby, Jr.], Libby & Ruth on tandem bicycle, Madison, Wisconsin
Description: Glass negative showing Marriott Morris' son Marriott Canby Jr., his wife Elizabeth, and daughter Ruth, riding a tandem bicycle down a path in Madison, Wisconsin. Ruth Morris sits in the front basket. All three riders wear white outfits and smile at the camera. There are tall brick buildings and foliage on the left side of the path., 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: ca. 1942
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.109.3]

Title: [Copy of Hinkle's picture of Deshler-Morris House, 4782 Main Street. To send with Perot Reunion invitations]
Description: Glass negative showing a view of the Deshler-Morris House (later 5442 Germantown Avenue), a two-story stone house, seen from across a brick road. The house has shuttered windows and ivy climbing the walls. A boy rides a bicycle in front of the wooden fence that extends from the left side of the building. 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., Title supplied by cataloger., David Hinkle (1836-1916) was a popular studio photographer in Germantown around the 1860s., 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: ca. 1889
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [*P.9895.10.1]

Title: Bicycle group in Public Garden, St. George's. A. H. Bull, S. Harry Sargeant, E. Eugene Sargeant & Dr. Buddington. [Bermuda]
Description: Glass negative showing a view of A.H. Bull, S. Harry Sargeant, E. Eugene Sargeant, and Dr. Buddington standing behind two bicycles in a public garden at St. George's. The bicycle on the left has a large front wheel and a small rear wheel while the bicycle on the right has two wheels of the same size. The men wear three-piece suits with hats. The men on either end wear deer-stalker hats. Palm trees and other foliage grow behind the group., Time: 3, 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: March 18, 1889
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.1428]

Title: Hall doorway, 4782 Main Street [Deshler-Morris House, Germantown]
Description: Glass negative showing a view looking through an open door from inside the Deshler-Morris House at 4782 Main Street, later 5442 Germantown Avenue. There is a wooden porch outside the door and a garden extends into the background. A bicycle stands on the right and leafy shrubs border the garden on the left. 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., Photographer remarks: Small but clear and good, 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: June 19, 1882
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.64.4]

Title: [Marriott Canby Morris Jr. on bicycle, Sea Girt]
Description: Film negative showing Marriott C. Morris' son Marriott Canby Morris Jr. riding a tall bicycle on a path next to Wreck Pond. Morris wears a sailor suit and a wide brimmed hat and holds onto a tree. Slender trees line the path and a bridge crosses the water in the background., 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: Summer 1907
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.2013.13.143]

Title: [Marriott C. Morris, Elliston Perot Morris Jr., Marriott Canby Morris Jr. on sidewalk with bicycle, Sea Girt]
Description: Film negative showing Marriott Canby Morris and one of his sons, either Elliston Perot Morris Jr. or Marriott Canby Morris Jr., riding a bicycle down a path lined with trees. Morris' other son walks in the grass to the right of the path., 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: Summer 1907
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.2013.13.93]

Title: Bicycle party. Herbert Morris, H[orace] E[ugene] Smith, J[edidiah] H. Adams & myself. Taken before starting on ride to Doylestown, Norristown & W. Chester
Description: Glass negative showing Marriott Canby Morris and his third cousin Herbert Morris (Haverford College class of 1889), along with Horace Eugene Smith (class of 1886) and Jedidiah H. Adams (class of 1887) posing next to their bicycles. The group stands on a stone patio in front of a house and wear cycling outfits., Photographer remarks: Weak neg. Intens., Time: 8:40, Light: Fair no 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 22, 1884
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.248]

Title: [Bicycle party. Herbert Morris, Horace Eugene Smith, Jedediah H. Adams & myself]
Description: Glass negative showing Marriott Canby Morris and his third cousin Herbert Morris (Haverford College class of 1889), along with Horace Eugene Smith (class of 1886) and Jedidiah H. Adams (class of 1887) sat on a porch with their bicycles next to them leaning on the porch pillars. The men wear cycling outfits., Same as last, but machines stacked on porch & fellows sitting down., Photographer remarks: Quite weak neg., Time: 8:45, Light: Same as 248. [Fair, no 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 22, 1884
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.249]

Title: Taking canvas shelter to beach, S[ea] G[irt]
Description: Film negative showing a group gathered around a canvas tent in front of the Morris famiy home Cedar Mer. Two men stand on either side of the tent while a young man wheels a bicycle on the left. A girl sits on the ground in front of the tent while another child peeks through a hole in the side of the tent. The men wear long black jackets and ties while the boys wear white shirts and ties. The boy on the bicycle wears a hat. The girl wears a white dress and straw hat. Quaker architect Hibberd Yarnall built the summer home Cedar Mer around 1875. After his death in 1882, Elliston Perot Morris bought the property. Morris left Cedar Mer to his son Marriott Canby Morris in his will. It was sold in 1951 after his death. By 1958 the house had been demolished., Originally located in negative album [P.2013.13a], 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: June 23, 1912
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.2013.13.502]

Title: Elliston & Marriott & bicyles at Mill, [Sea Girt]
Description: Film negative showing Marriott C. Morris' sons Elliston Perot Morris Jr. and Marriott Canby Morris Jr. as boys with bicycles standing on a wooden bridge near a mill at Sea Girt. The boys wear white shirts, hats, and ties. The mill stands behind the bridge to the right., Inscription on negative: 6/23, 1912 at the Mill Sea Girt, Originally located in negative album [P.2013.13a], 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: June 23, 1912
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.2013.13.507]

Title: Elliston, Marriott & Wistar Wood on bicycles, [Brielle, NJ]
Description: Film negative showing a view of Marriott C. Morris' sons Elliston P. Morris Jr. and Marriott C. Morris Jr. and his third cousin twice removed Morris Wistar Wood as young boys standing with bicycles in front of a building with a sign reading "Brielle." The boys all wear hats., Inscription on negative: Elliston, Marriott + Wistar Wood 9-1912, Originally located in negative album [P.2013.13a], 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: September 1912
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.2013.13.518]

Title: Race Street in Philadelphia's Chinatown
Description: View looking down Race Street in Chinatown. Includes storefronts adorned with buntings, awnings, and flags. Pedestrians, horse-drawn carts and carriages, and cyclists crowd the thoroughfare. Probably taken during Chinese diplomat and statesmen Li Hongzhang's visit to Philadelphia on September 3, 1896., Publisher's imprint printed on mount., Title printed on mount., Curved gray mount with rounded corners., Date inferred from type of mount., Gift of Raymond Holstein.
Creator: Berry, Kelley & Chadwick
Date: [ca. 1896]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Holstein stereo - Streets - Race Street [P.2011.47.1937]

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