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Title: [Three people and a dog resting under trees near a residence]
Description: Depicts a man and a young woman sitting on a wooden fence underneath of two trees in the front yard of an unidentified residence. A young girl sits on a bicycle and a dog rests on the dirt path nearby. Tree foliage conceals most of the house in the foreground. An unidentified body of water is visible in the distance., Forms part of the Robert S. Redfield collection., Gift of Alfred G. Redfield.
Creator: Redfield, Robert S., 1849-1923, photographer
Date: [ca. 1890]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Redfield [P.8983.35]

Title: Little boy riding a small tricycle, Philadelphia
Description: Portrait showing a little boy riding a children's tricycle on the sidewalk in Philadelphia. He wears a white playsuit and black boots., Artura postcard., See Robert Bogdan and Todd Weseloh’s “Real Photo Postcard Guide: The People’s Photography,” (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2006), p. 225., Keith was a Philadelphia photographer who specialized in portraiture, mainly of working-class Philadelphians in South Philadelphia and Kensington from the 1910s to the 1940s.
Creator: Keith, John Frank, 1883-1947, photographer
Date: ca. 1922
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Photographs-Keith [P.2008.10.73]

Title: [Wooded area, England]
Description: Film negative likely taken during Marriott C. Morris’ European honeymoon showing a view of a woman walking a bicycle down a path lined with tall trees and other foliage in England., 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: 1897
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.2013.13.16]

Title: [Group in front of a house near a lake]
Description: Photograph showing a group of men gathered in front a two-story house with a large tree growing in the yard, likely at Massachusetts. Various bicycles are propped up against the house and a dog stands beneath the tree. A lake is visible in the background behind the men., September 13, 14, + 15, 1907., 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 1907
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.2013.13.588]

Title: [Group in front of a house near a lake]
Description: Photograph showing a group of men gathered in front a house with a large tree growing in the yard, likely in Massachusetts. Various bicycles are propped up against the house and a dog stands beneath the tree. A lake is visible in the background behind the men, September 13, 14, + 15, 1907., 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 1907
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.2013.13.589]

Title: The Sec. Ed
Description: Photograph showing a man leaning against his bicycle in front of a tree, likely at Massachusetts. He wears a three-piece suit and holds his hat in his hand, which rests on his hip. A path runs behind the tree., September 13, 14, + 15, 1907., 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 1907
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.2013.13.600]

Title: Miss Schenkl on a tricycle, back of Hamilton H[otel], [Bermuda]
Description: Glass negative showing Miss Schenkl riding a tricycle on a dirt road behind the Hamilton Hotel. She stands between two large wheels, with the smaller wheel behind her and wears a long, high-necked dark dress., Photographer remarks: Fogged by gaslight in Bermuda., Time: 4, Light: Sun out., The emulsion has started to flake off around the edges 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: March 26, 1886
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.892]

Title: My bicycle, side view in front of box bush, (Miss Annes)
Description: Glass negative showing Marriott Morris' bicycle with a large front wheel posed in front of a leafy bush in a garden., Time: 2:00, Light: Dark day, 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: June 9, 1887
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.1138]

Title: [Man with a bicycle in front of George Inn, England]
Description: Film negative likely taken during Marriott C. Morris’ European honeymoon showing a man standing next to a bicycle on a dirt road in front of the George Inn. The two-story inn has signs reading "Cebonsey Harman Fine Ales," "George-Inn," and "Good Stabling." The man has a beard and mustache and wears a three-piece suit and hat. A large puddle blocks part of the road and a child walks down the street in front of the building. More children gather near the building to the left., 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: 1897
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.2013.13.20]

Title: [Statue of William Tell Altdorf-Switzerland]
Description: Glass negative showing a view of statue of William Tell leaning on a sword with one hand and the other arm upraised. A brick road crowded with people and bicycles runs in front of the statue. A clock tower and other buildings rise behind the statue., 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. 1892
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.59.8]

Title: [Group of cyclists]
Description: Photograph showing a group of men with their bicycles standing across a dirt road, likely in Massachusetts. Many of the men wear hats and bowties as they prop up their bicycles., September 13, 14, + 15, 1907., 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 1907
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.2013.13.587]

Title: [Group standing in front of a garage]
Description: Photograph showing a group of men standing in front of a one-story building with a sign reading "Garage," likely at Massachusetts. A dirt road curves in front of the building and various cars are parked along the road. Bicycles lean agains the front of the building. Many of the men wear suits, hats, and bowties., September 13, 14, + 15, 1907., 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 1907
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.2013.13.591]

Title: [Group standing in front of a garage]
Description: Photograph showing a group of men standing in front of a one-story building with a sign reading "Garage," likely at Massachusetts. A dirt road curves in front of the building and various cars are parked along the road. Bicycles lean agains the front of the building. Many of the men wear suits, hats, and bowties., September 13, 14, + 15, 1907., 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 1907
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.2013.13.592]

Title: [Group of four cyclists on a boardwalk]
Description: Photograph showing four men standing on a wooden boardwalk each propping up a bicycle. The men wear light shirts, ties, and one wears a hat. The water is visible in below the boardwalk on the left., September 13, 14, + 15, 1907., 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 1907
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.2013.13.597]

Title: [View of a bicycle on a dirt road], Audubon
Description: Film negative showing a view of a bicycle standing next to a dirt road at Audubon, Pa. Thick trees line the roadside and a house is visible in the distance., 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.2013.13.229]

Title: My bicycle, side view in front of box bush. (Miss Anne's)
Description: Photograph of Marriott C. Morris' bicycle with a large front wheel posed in a garden in front of a leafy bush., Photograph from negative number 1138., 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 9, 1887
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.2094]

Title: My bicycle, side view in front of box bush. (Miss Anne's)
Description: Photograph of Marriott C. Morris' bicycle with a large front wheel posed in a garden in front of a leafy bush., Photograph from negative number 1138., 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 9, 1887
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.2095]

Title: The Hog Comes Out Strongly on the Wheel.
Description: A man in the form of a pig rides a bicycle. The valentine criticizes him for unmannerly behavior., Text: We never need / To ask your breed, / It shows so plain in word and deed, / And your face so well reveals the story ; / But when we deal / With you on a Wheel / More strongly than ever you make us feel / That here's a HOG in all his glory., Provenance: Helfand, William H.
Date: [between 1840 and 1880?]

Title: Don't get the clothes too blue!
Description: Genre scene satirizing the "new woman" and the role of women in the home. Shows the lady of the house dressed in bicycle garb with her bicycle at her side pointing her finger and instructing her husband on how to do the laundry. The husband stands in front of the wash tub, article of clothing in hand, with dirty laundry piled in the baby's cradle next to him., Title printed on mount., Photographer's imprint printed on verso., 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., Kilburn, successor to stereograph publisher Kilburn Brothers in 1877, broadened the firm's portfolio from White Mountain scenery to include genre and comic subjects and international views.
Creator: Kilburn, B. W. (Benjamin West), 1827-1909
Date: c1897
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Kilburn - Portraits and genre [P.2003.32.3]

Title: "Sew on your own buttons, I'm going for a ride."
Description: Genre scene satirizing the "new woman" and the role of women in the home. Shows the lady of the house dressed in bicycle garb with her bicycle at her side, telling her husband to do the sewing while she goes out for a ride. The husband is seated with their daughter next to him as his wife, who hovers above them, gives the order., Copyrighted by B. L. Singley., Title printed on mount., Publisher's imprint printed on mount., Buff curved mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., See related: stereo - Keystone View Company - Portraits and genre [P.2003.21] and stereo - Keystone View Company - Portraits and genre [P.2017.3.3].
Creator: Keystone View Company
Date: c1899
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Keystone View Company - Portraits and genre [P.9897]

Title: The "new woman."
Description: Genre scene satirizing the "new woman" and the role of women in the home. Shows the lady of the house sitting at a table reading a newspaper as her husband stands in the kitchen dryng dishes. With a confused look, he peers at her from the other room. She is dressed in bicycle garb with her bicycle resting in the doorway nearby., Copyrighted by B. L. Singley., Title printed on mount., Publisher's imprint printed on mount., Printed text in six languages on verso: Die "moderne frau."; La 'donna nuova."; La femme nouvelle."; La Nueva Mufer."; Den "ny kvinde."; and Des "na kvinnan.", 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.
Creator: Keystone View Company
Date: c1899
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Keystone View Company - Portraits and genre [P.9964.2]

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., Copyrighted by Strohmeyer & Wyman., 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: c1897
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Underwood & Underwood - Portraits & genre [P.2004.5.1]

Title: Harry Paiste on his bicycle in a rain storm in the Juras
Description: Glass negative of a photograph showing Harry Paiste riding a bicycle in the rain. He wears a suit and a round hat as he lowers his face into the wind., Photographer remarks: Copy from a cabinet [Phillips, Philadelphia, photographer]., Time: 3:40 PM, Light: no sun, good light, 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: July 7, 1891
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.1633]

Title: Mr. Wilson's house at Como. [Spring Lake, NJ]
Description: Glass negative showing Mr. Wilson's large, two-story home set on a wide lawn at Spring Lake, N.J. The driveway leads from the road, through a rounded archway and into a courtyard. Two women sit on the porch, a man stands on the lawn near the road, and another man sits on a tricycle in the road to the right. Spring Lake was a coastal resort area popular in the late 19th and early 20th century., Photographer remarks: 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 bicycle., Time: 10:30, 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: September 9, 1887
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.1212]

Title: [Fortified tower, probably England]
Description: Film negative likely taken during Marriott C. Morris’ European honeymoon showing a view of a stone tower with a crenellated rooftop standing next to a river, probably in England. A boat travels down the river and a dirt road runs in front of the tower. A bicycle leans against a fence next to the road., 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 1897
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.2013.13.8]

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.2013.13.638]

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 reads: 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.2013.13.639]

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.2013.13.640]

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.2013.13.641]

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: "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: 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]

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