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Title: Horticultural Hall.
Description: Exterior view of Horticultural Hall, depicts landscaped gardens, benches and two large street lamps standing before the building's entrance.
Creator: Centennial Photographic Co., photographer., creator
Date: 1876
Location: Centennial - photos [P.9580.9]

Title: Horti: Grounds from Horti: Building.
Description: View of Horticultural Grounds from promenade. Shows a portion of the roof, paths, path lights, benches, gardens, and trees. Also shows women with parasols standing on the path.
Creator: Centennial Photographic Co., photographer., creator
Date: 1876
Location: Centennial - album [P.8965.30c]

Title: Fountain Avenue.
Description: View down Fountain Avenue of the Horticultural Grounds and Horticultural Hall with trees in the background. People on the walkways and the promenade of the building. In the foreground are flowers, shrubs, planters, and urns. To the right is a gazebo. Image is identical to P.9137.3.
Creator: Centennial Photographic Co., photographer., creator
Date: 1876
Location: *Centennial - photos [P.9037.6]

Title: Fountain Avenue.
Description: View down Fountain Avenue of the Horticultural Grounds and Horticultural Hall with trees in the background. People on the walkways and the promenade of the building. In the foreground are flowers, shrubs, planters, and urns. To the right is a gazebo. Image is identical to P.9037.6.
Creator: Centennial Photographic Co., photographer., creator
Date: 1876
Location: *Centennial - photos [P.9137.3]

Title: Horticultural Hall - for "art and industry".
Description: Exterior view of Horticultural Hall, with fountain and landscaping in the foreground. People walk on grounds; benches and two large street lamps stand before the building's entrance.
Creator: Centennial Photographic Co., photographer., creator
Date: 1876
Location: Centennial - photos [P.9047.185]

Title: Fountain Avenue.
Description: Exterior view of Horticultural Hall and surrounding gardens. Also shows flowerbeds, potted plants, paths, and trees.
Creator: Centennial Photographic Co., photographer., creator
Date: 1876
Location: Centennial album [P.8965.29c]

Title: Operti's Tropical Garden
Description: View of Operti's Tropical Garden at Fairmount Park. Depicts a central fountain with mythological statues surrounded by lush plant life. Hanging above the fountain is a three-tiered chandelier. The background also shows a stage or platform with arranged seating and a harp.
Creator: Centennial Photographic Co., photographer., creator
Date: 1876
Location: Centennial - album [P.8965.23d]

Title: Operti's Tropical Garden
Description: View of Operti's Tropical Garden. Depicts pathways winding through a landscape of bountiful plant life. Statues are shown throughout the garden. In the background, a man stands in front of a small, cascading waterfall.
Creator: Centennial Photographic Co., photographer., creator
Date: 1876
Location: Centennial - album [P.8965.23f]

Title: Fountain Avenue from Horticultural Hall.
Description: View of the Horticultural Grounds showing lamp-lined paths, benches, trees, gardens, and buildings in the distance.
Creator: Centennial Photographic Co., photographer., creator
Date: 1876
Location: Centennial album [P.8965.30b]

Title: Bellevue Stratford postcards
Description: Contains images of the Bellevue Stratford Hotel, built 1902-1904 by G.W. & W.D. Hewitt. Includes exterior views of the hotel looking southwest. Also depicts interior views of the hotel including the Clover Club Banquet Hall, Vienese Room, Ladies' Restaurant, main office, lobby, grand ballroom and the Oak Hall and South Garden sections of the roof garden. Also includes an image of William Penn holding a model of the Bellevue Stratford in his hand., Contains 37 postcards printed in color and 26 printed in black and white., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Brightbill, George M., collector
Date: 1900-1960
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Hotels and Restaurants - Bellevue Stratford - 110]

Title: Philadelphia lawn mowers at Horticultural Hall, Fairmount Park
Description: Illustrated trade card depicting a boy pushing a lawn mower in the grass of the Sunken Gardens in the foreground and the southwest elevation of Horticultural Hall in the background. Also shows a fountain and a man guiding a horse-drawn mower. The exhibition hall was built in 1875 after designs by Hermann J. Schwarzmann in West Fairmount Park for the Centennial Exhibition, held in Philadelphia’s Fairmount Park in 1876 to celebrate America’s one-hundredth anniversary of independence and to showcase the strengths of the country’s industry, manufactures, agriculture, and art. Building demolished in 1955 even though the 383' long, 193' wide building was supposed to remain a permanent botanical conservatory, showcasing exotic plant species and Victorian gardens., Price list organized by lawn mower style printed on verso., Distributor's imprint printed on verso: Engle, Buchner & Kramer, hardware, 22 Main Street, Dayton, Ohio., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1888]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Philadelphia [P.9748]

Title: Elliston P. Morris Jr. and lawn mower, 6706 Cresheim Rd., Pelham
Description: Photograph showing Marriott C. Morris' son Elliston Perot Morris Jr. as a child pretending to push a lawnmower at their home at 6706 Cresheim Road. He wears a dark, wide brimmed hat and holds onto the mower's handles. A brick wall borders the lawn., 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 1902
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.2021]

Title: Marriott C. Morris Jr. and Elliston P. Morris Jr. with flowering shrubs, Pelham
Description: Photograph showing Marriott C. Morris' sons Elliston Perot Morris Jr. and Marriott Canby Morris Jr. as children in a garden standing next to a flowering shrub. Both boys wear light colored frocks and dark stockings. Marriott Morris Jr. on the left has long hair tied back with a ribbon. Large, leafy shrubs border the garden 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: 1904
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.2044]

Title: From rear windows, 6706 Cresheim Road Germantown
Description: Photograph showing a view of two lines of trees spanning the garden at Morris' home at 6706 Cresheim Road. Behind the straight lines of a trees there is a large house set back from the road on the left. The print is mounted on a cream colored board with a generous border., Photograph from negative number *8-6., Digitization and cataloging has been made possible through the generosity of David Marriott Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, and William Perot Morris in memory of Marriott Canby Morris and his children: Elliston Perot Morris, Marriott Canby Morris Jr., and Janet Morris and in acknowledgment of his grandchildren: William Perot Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, Jonathan White Morris, and David Marriott Morris., Edited.
Creator: Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer
Date: April 5, 1899
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.2013.28.5]

Title: Garden at 131 W. Walnut Lane with John Gagen, 1928
Description: Panoramic view showing the expansive backyard garden at Marriott C. Morris's Germantown residence. Garden includes tilled plots of land, patches and rows of flowers and bushes, and wire fencing extending from a building in the back, left of the image. Gardener John Gagen stands near a patch of daffodils in the right side of the garden. The residential and out buildings, including the garage (far right) of the Morris estate are visible in the background. Trees and lawns also adorn the property. The house was renovated 1905-1907 with the Morris Family taking residence about 1907., Title and date from manuscript note on verso., Attributed to Marriott C. Morris., Edited.
Creator: Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer
Date: [1928]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris [P.2016.37.3]

Title: [Vegetable cultivation at demonstration center at Little Wakefield, Germantown]
Description: Group of young women, including an African American woman, from the National League for Women's Service with plow, wheelbarrow, watering can, and other tools working in a vegetable garden. Shows eighteen women spread out over the garden tending to different plants. In the center, the African American woman stands holding a pitcher. A voluntary organization in support of the homefront during World War I, the League used the Little Wakefield estate as a demonstration center. They held classes in home economics and canning and preserving, grew fruits and vegetables, and cultivated bees. Little Wakefield was built by Thomas Rodman Fisher in 1829 on property adjacent to his father's estate, Wakefield, located at 1601 Lindley Avenue. La Salle University purchased the land in 1989., Title from published postcard., Date inferred from content., Photographer's blind stamp on recto., Purchase 1989., Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Creator: Pancoast, Charles R., 1858-, photographer
Date: [ca. 1918]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Pancoast [P.9276.41]

Title: International Exhibition Sydney
Description: View showing the buildings and grounds near Sydney Harbour of the exhibition to promote New South Wales technology, commerce, and industry. The exhibition, on display from September 17, 1879 to April 20, 1880, commemorated the centennial of the arrival of the First Fleet. Includes the Garden Palace designed by architect James Barnet, the Botanic Gardens, promenades, annexed exhibition halls, and pavilions. In the foreground, a man and woman couple stands at the harbor opposite the palace while a sailboat and rowboat glide on the water. Image surrounded by a border containing palm trees, lush vegetation, and the coat of arms for Sydney depicted with a white man sailor and aboriginal man, attired in a loincloth and holding a spear., Title from item., Printed above image: Supplement to the Illustrated Sydney News, July 1879., Accessioned 1883., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Date: 1879
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **GC - Exhibitions [5225.F.2]

Title: Elliston P. Morris Jr. , 6706 [Cresheim Rd., Pelham]
Description: Photograph showing Marriott C. Morris' son Elliston Perot Morris Jr. as a child riding a hobby horse in the garden at their home at 6706 Cresheim Road. He holds the horse's mane in his left hand and a hat in his right. A brick wall borders the garden 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: June 1902
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.2022]

Title: Elliston P. Morris Jr. and hobby horse, 6706 [Cresheim Rd., Pelham]
Description: Photograph showing Marriott C. Morris' son Elliston Perot Morris Jr. as a child riding a hobby horse in their garden at 6706 Cresheim Road. He holds onto the back of the horse with his right hand and points his left hand toward the sky. He wears a wide-brimmed hat. A brick wall borders the garden 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: June 1902
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.2023]

Title: Potts-Morris Aggregation in backyard, Cedar Mer, Sea Girt, NJ
Description: Photograph showing a woman and three children walking down a path through a field behind the Morris family home Cedar Mer. The children probably include Marriott C. Morris' sons Elliston Perot Morris Jr. and Marriott Canby Morris Jr., and his niece Helen Dickey Potts. The woman bends down to hold the youngest child's hand while the other two children look on. A man's shadow is visible in the foreground. 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., 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. 1902
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.2034]

Title: [Marriott C. Morris Jr. and Elliston P. Morris Jr., 6706 Cresheim Rd., Pelham]
Description: Photograph showing Marriott C. Morris' sons Elliston Perot Morris Jr. and Marriott Canby Morris Jr. in the garden at their home at 6706 Cresheim Road. Elliston Morris on the right is a toddler playing with wooden blocks. Marriott Morris Jr. on the left is a baby sitting in a stroller, also playing with blocks. Both children wear white frocks and hats., 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: 1901
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.2012]

Title: Marriott C. Morris Jr. posing with lawnmower, 6706 Cresheim Rd, Pelham
Description: Photograph showing Marriott C. Morris' son Marriott Canby Morris Jr. as a young boy pushing a lawnmower in their yard at 6706 Cresheim Road. He wears a wide brimmed straw hat and a sailor suit and smiles at the camera. Other houses are visible across the road 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: 1905
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.2049]

Title: Marriott C. Morris Jr. at Pelham opp. 6706 Cresheim Rd
Description: Photograph showing Marriott C. Morris' son Marriott Canby Morris Jr. as a young boy posing with a wheelbarrow in their front lawn at 6706 Cresheim Road. He wears a wide brimmed straw hat and a sailor suit. Other houses are visible across the road 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: 1905
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.2050]

Title: [Hunter's handsome drug stores, cor. Pacific & New Jersey Aves., cor. Atlantic & Indiana Aves., Atlantic City, N.J. and cor. Fifteenth and Wharton Sts., Philadelphia]
Description: Series of illustrated trade cards promoting Hunter's Drug Stores, and depicting white boys bowling, a large fish in a pond surrounded by flowers, and men and women laboring outside, including a white man and woman couple fetching water from a well, a white woman standing in a field carrying a staff, and a white woman watering flowers with smiling, human faces in a garden as a cupid figure with wings watches her from the other side of a fence. Two African American men, portrayed in racist caricature, haul large bundles of wheat past a milestone labeled "M. 10." In the left, the barefooted man is attired in a tunic, and in the right, the man is attired in a hat, a tunic, and shoes., Title supplied by cataloger., One print [P.9828.6173] contains advertising text printed on verso promoting the purity, quality and accuracy of Hunter's drugs and lists items available for sale at his drugstores., Date from copyright statement on six prints [P.9828.6175-6180]: Copyright 1882 by Ed. Wolf., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of William Helfand., RVCDC, Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Date: [ca. 1882]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helfand Patent Medicine Trade Card Collection - Pharmacists - H [P.9828.6173-6180]

Title: Group in our garden. Germantown, 5/5 '87. [Group in our Garden. Cos. Lill, Bella, & Edith & Morris Wistar. Cos Lizzie & John & Anchen Morris & Bess]
Description: Photograph showing a group portrait in a garden at the Deshler-Morris House, including Marriott C. Morris' sister Elizabeth Canby Morris, third cousins Elizabeth Morris Wistar, John Stokes Morris, and Anna Stokes Morris, third cousins once removed Anabelle Wistar, Edith Wistar, and Joshua Morris Wistar, and second cousin once removed Elizabeth Stokes Morris, . Two of the women sit in the front row with a girl leaning against the woman on the left and a boy leaning against the woman on the right. The others stand behind them. 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., Photograph from negative number 1120., 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 5, 1887
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9986.4]

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