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Title: Aunt A.T. [Anna Tatnall] Canby. [Sea Girt, NJ]
Description: Glass negative showing a three-quarter length portrait of Marriott C. Morris' aunt Anna Tatnall Canby. She sits in a wicker chair and wears a straw hat with ribbons, a brooch, and a checkered shawl., Photographer remarks: In porch. A little overexp., Time: 3:50, Light: 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: July 21, 1884
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.290]

Title: Cascade near Natural Bridge [VA] below rustic bridge. Aunt A[nna Canby] on bridge
Description: Glass negative showing Marriott Morris' aunt Anna Tatnall Canby on a wooden bridge crossing over the cascading Cedar Creek. Canby stands in the center of the bridge in profile. Either bank is lined with trees, their barnches extending over the water., Time: 11:20, 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: October 13, 1886
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.1039]

Title: Aunt Annie T. Canby at Avocado, [Sea Girt, NJ]
Description: Film negative showing a close view of Marriott C. Morris' aunt Anne Tatnall Canby standing on the porch of Morris family home Avocado. She wears a checkered dress with a high, lacy collar and her hair in curls. 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., Badger Album, 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 1908
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.2014.42.31]

Title: Group on back porch at Sea Girt. Aunt Hetty, Uncle Edward, Aunt Annie, Mother & Bessie, [Sea Girt, NJ]
Description: Glass negative showing Marriott C. Morris' mother Martha Canby Morris, sister Elizabeth Canby Morris, aunt Anne Canby, granduncle Edward Bellah, and grandaunt Hetty Bellah gathered on a porch, likely at the Morris family home Avocado. The majority of the group sit on chairs while Elizabeth Morris stands in profile behind them. The women wear long dark dresses and hats while Edward Bellah wears a three-piece suit and hat., Time: 8:30, There is a crack down the entire left side of the negative and it has been reinforced with an extra pane of glass., 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 26, 1886
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.973]

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