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Title: Jane Rhoads Morris & her children
Description: Film negative showing Marriott C. Morris' wife Jane Rhoads Morris and their children Elliston Perot Morris Jr., Marriott Canby Morris Jr., and Janet Morris in a garden, likely at their home at 131 W. Walnut Lane. Jane Morris wears a white dress and hat. Elliston Morris Jr. stands on the left his arm around her shoulder and wears a patterned shirt with a ribbon around his neck. Marriott Morris Jr. stands on the right and wears a sailor suit. Janet Morris as a baby wears a knitted sweater and cap and sits in a carriage to the right reaching her hand toward Jane Morris., 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: October 1908
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.2014.42.58]

Title: J[ane] R[hoads] M[orris] reading to her kids. 131 W. Walnut La[ne], [Philadelphia]
Description: Film negative showing Marriott C. Morris' wife Jane Rhoads Morris holding a book with their children Elliston Perot Morris Jr., Marriott Canby Morris Jr. and Janet Morris fathered around a tree in the garden at their home at 131 W. Walnut Lane. The boys sit next to Jane Morris on a wooden bench in front of the tree. Janet Morris as a baby sits in a carriage in front of the group. A large house stands in the background., 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 4, 1908
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.2014.42.44]

Title: [Morris family and others after the 225th anniversary of Germantown parade]
Description: Film negative showing seven children and four women sitting and standing in the garden at the Deshler-Morris House at 5442 Germantown Avenue. Marriott C. Morris' wife Jane Rhoads Morris sits in the center next to their son Elliston Perot Morris Jr. Their other son, Marriott Canby Morris Jr., sits in front of the group holding two flags. The other children likely include Morris' first cousins once removed Marjorie Wistar Canby and William Marriott Canby, and his third cousins twice removed Morris Wistar Wood, Anabella Bonnyman Wood, and Horatio Curtis Wood. 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., Manuscript note on original envelope: Wood, Canby, Morris kids after parade, also older folks 5442 G'tn Ave (house not shown)., Gift of David M. Morris., 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 6, 1908
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.2017.38.13]

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