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Title: Interior of the Library, Haverford [College] from folding doors. E[lias] H[enley] White & W[illiam] S[amuel] Hilles in foregr[oun]d. Wilfred White near gate
Description: Glass negative showing the interior of Magill library at Haverford College (founded 1833). The walls are lined with shelves and covered in books. Many of the shelves have bust statues resting on top. Elias Henley White (Haverford College class of 1885) and William Samuel Hilles (class of 1885) sit in the foreground reading. Wilfred White (class of 1886) sits in the background. Magill Library was built in 1864 as a library and assembly hall., Photographer remarks: Expos. about right but stop too large for sharpness., Time: 11:45, Light: Faint 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: February 7, 1885
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.496]

Title: [Jedediah H.] Adams & [Allan M.] Mowry [in costumes worn as witnesses at Everett Society mock trial, 3, 28, '84, Haverford College]
Description: Glass negative showing a full length portrait of Jedediah H. Adams and Allan M. Mowry (Haverford College class of 1887 and part of the Everett Society) dressed in elaborate costumes. One is dressed as a woman with a long dresses and purse and the other wears a three-piece suit, top hat, and false beard. They stand in front of a stone wall covered with vines and a suitcase sits on the ground near the man's feet. The Everett Society was founded by students in 1858. Their activities included declamations, orations, debates and essay writing. The Society merged with the Haverford Athenaeum in 1889 to form the Everett-Athenaeum Society., Same as last., Photographer remarks: Upright on plate. Intensified. Collodion flowed over., Time: 12:30, Light: Fair., 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 31, 1883
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.237]

Title: David Murray, our waiter at Haverford [College] & his wife at door of Gym
Description: Glass negative showing African American waiter David Murray and his wife posing in a doorway at Haverford College (founded 1833). In the left, Murray, attired in a white collared shirt, a tie, a waistcoat, a jacket, pants, and black shoes, stands placing his left hand on the back of the chair his wife sits in to the right and slightly in front of him. Mrs. Murray, wearing her curly hair tied behind her head and attired in hoop earrings, a long-sleeved checkered blouse with a white lace collar and decorative buttons running down the middle, a dark-colored skirt with ruching at the bottom, and dark-colored shoes, sits with her hands on her lap. David looks at the viewer while Mrs. Murray faces slightly left., Photographer remarks: Undertimed., Time: 11:10, Light: Faint sun out., 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., Purchase 2001., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Edited.
Creator: Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer
Date: May 29, 1885
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.611]

Title: Group at back door of Founder's. Prof[essor] Sharpless' 3 children, [Helen, Amy and Fredric], & Eddie Thomas, [Haverford College]
Description: Glass negative showing Professor Isaac Sharpless' three children, Helen, Amy Cope, and Fredric Sharpless, and Professor Allen Clapp Thomas' son Eddie Thomas (Haverford College class of 1897), posed in a doorway at Founder's Hall. Thomas stands in the back and while the Sharpless children sit on the step. Isaac Sharpless was a Quaker mathematician and astronomer at Haverford College (founded 1833). He served as Dean of Haverford College from 1884 to 1887, and then president from 1887 to 1917. Allen Thomas graduated from Haverford College in 1865 and returned as an instructor in 1878. After getting his masters in history in 1882, he continued as a professor of rhetoric and history until 1909. He also worked extensively with the library until 1912. Founders Hall, built in 1833, was the first building of the Haverford School, later College. It served as the only living and learning quarters of the College until 1877 when Barclay Hall was built., Time: 11:15, Light: Fair sun out., 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 6, 1885
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.513]

Title: John J. Smith and Rachel Collins Pearsall Smith Family Photograph Album
Description: Photograph album containing predominantly posed portraits of the family, extended family, and friends of prominent Philadelphia Quakers John Jay and Rachel Collins Pearsall Smith.

Title: John Jay Smith and Rachel Collins Pearsall Smith Family photograph album
Description: Photograph album containing predominantly posed portraits of the family, extended family, and friends of prominent Philadelphia Quakers John Jay and Rachel Collins Pearsall Smith. Also contains views of family residences, including Ivy Lodge (John Jay Smith, Germantown), Robert P. Smith's residence (below Grumblethorpe, Germantown), The Cedars (Whitall family summer home, Haddonfield, N.J.), and The “Mansion” at Millville, New Jersey ("Lloyd Logan Smith's birthplace"). Other portraiture includes group portraits showing the Haverford and Bryn Mawr Classes of 1885, "The Spices" cooking Club, "The Band of Cousins, a wedding banquet, and the Grange (London, England). Album also contains photographs showing family treks to Wyoming and Yellowstone (1879 and 1881); "H[annah] W. S[mith] at her table in 1315 Filbert St. Phila. Writing Life of John M. Whitall"; and a full-length silhouette of Robert P. Smith's daughter Gulielma who died in childhood., Sitters include John Jay and Rachel Collins Pearsall Smith; their children and their spouses Lloyd P. Smith; Robert Pearsall Smith and his wife feminist evangelical Hannah Whitall; Horace J. Smith and his wife Margaret L.; and Elizabeth P. Smith; their grandchildren Mary Whitall, Alice (Alys) Whitall (wife of philosopher Bertrand Russell), Ray Pearsall, and Lloyd Logan Smith; members of the Whitall and Thomas families (R.P. Smith in-laws and relatives of M. Carey Thomas); and Haverford students and other young Quakers, including William. S. Hilles; Charles Baily; Emma and Patty Mellor; Birdee Shoemaker; Carrie Cope; Katie Stokes; and Annie Bacon., Brown cloth binding., Damaged morocco label on front cover: Por[traits].... &c. Vol., Majority of contents identified by inscriptions on album page., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Album housed in phase box with index to sitters., John Jay Smith, Quaker editor and librarian of the Library Company of Philadelphia married Rachel Collins Pearsall Smith, granddaugher of noted Quaker printer Isaac Collins on April 12, 1821. The couple had six children: Lloyd Pearsall Smith, librarian of the Library Company; Albanus Smith (1823-1842); Robert Pearsall Smith, printer, businessman, and evangelical leader; Gulielma Smith (died in childhood); Horace J. Smith, agriculturist and author; and Elizabeth Pearsall Smith, editor of "Recollections of John Jay Smith." Richard P. Smith was a proprietor of Whitall, Tatum & Co. glass manufactory in New Jersey during the 1860s. He and his brother Horace J. relocated to England in the later 19th century.
Date: ca. 1856-ca. 1885
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums [P.2008.15]

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