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Title: [Climbing a tree], Boys Parlors Camp, Wildwood, NJ
Description: Film negative showing a group of boys from the Boys' Parlors Association climbing a tree at Wildwood, N.J. An American flag flies off a makeshift flagpole in the background on the left. Founded in 1887, the Boys’ Parlors Association of Germantown served as a safe space for neighborhood children whose parents worked longer hours in an industrializing city. The name changed in 1907 to the Germantown Boys’ Club after joining ranks with the Boys and Girls Clubs of America. Marriott Canby Morris served as the president of the club in the first decade of the 1900s. Wildwood began developing as a coastal resort town in the 1890s, growing dramatically in popularity in the 1950s. The area was incorporated as a city in 1912., 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 1907
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.2013.13.147]

Title: [Climbing a tree], Boys Parlors Camp, Wildwood, NJ
Description: Film negative showing a group of boys from the Boys' Parlors Association climbing a tree at Wildwood, N.J. A man with a hammer stands under the tree nailing boards into the trunk. An American flag flies off a makeshift flagpole in the background on the left. Founded in 1887, the Boys’ Parlors Association of Germantown served as a safe space for neighborhood children whose parents worked longer hours in an industrializing city. The name changed in 1907 to the Germantown Boys’ Club after joining ranks with the Boys and Girls Clubs of America. Marriott Canby Morris served as the president of the club in the first decade of the 1900s. Wildwood began developing as a coastal resort town in the 1890s, growing dramatically in popularity in the 1950s. The area was incorporated as a city in 1912., 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 1907
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.2013.13.148]

Title: [Elliston Perot Morris Jr. and Marriott Canby Morris Jr. playing on a porch], Pocono Lake, [PA]
Description: Film negative showing four boys, including Marriott C. Morris' sons Elliston Perot Morris Jr. and Marriott Canby Morris Jr., playing with saws and scraps of wood on a porch at Pocono Lake. Elliston Morris Jr. on the left stands with one leg on the ground and his knee on the porch while holding a saw. 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., September 3 & 4, 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: September 1909
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.2013.13.394]

Title: [Climbing a tree, Boys Parlors Camp, Wildwood, NJ]
Description: Photograph showing a group of boys from the Boys’ Parlors Association climbing a tree at Wildwood, N.J. A man with a hammer stands under the tree nailing boards into the trunk. An American flag flies off a makeshift flagpole in the background on the left. Founded in 1887, the Boys’ Parlors Association of Germantown served as a safe space for neighborhood children whose parents worked longer hours in an industrializing city. The name changed in 1907 to the Germantown Boys’ Club after joining ranks with the Boys and Girls Clubs of America. Marriott Canby Morris served as the president of the club in the first decade of the 1900s. Wildwood began developing as a coastal resort town in the 1890s, growing dramatically in popularity in the 1950s. The area was incorporated as a city in 1912., Photograph from negative number P.2013.13.148., 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 1907
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.2013.13.581]

Title: [Climbing a tree, Boys Parlors Camp, Wildwood, NJ]
Description: Photograph showing a group of boys from the Boys’ Parlors Association climbing a tree at Wildwood, N.J. An American flag flies off a makeshift flagpole in the background on the left. Founded in 1887, the Boys’ Parlors Association of Germantown served as a safe space for neighborhood children whose parents worked longer hours in an industrializing city. The name changed in 1907 to the Germantown Boys’ Club after joining ranks with the Boys and Girls Clubs of America. Marriott Canby Morris served as the president of the club in the first decade of the 1900s. Wildwood began developing as a coastal resort town in the 1890s, growing dramatically in popularity in the 1950s. The area was incorporated as a city in 1912., Photograph from negative number P.2013.13.147., 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 1907
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.2013.13.582]

Title: [Interior of playroom with Elliston P. Morris, Jr. and Marriott C. Morris, Jr.]
Description: Photograph showing Marriott C. Morris' sons Elliston Perot Morris Jr. and Marriott Canby Morris Jr. as children in a playroom. Elliston Morris on the right wears a sailor suit and rides a hobby horse. Marriott Morris Jr. on the left sits on a chair behind the horse holding a long ribbon., Photograph from negative number 43-10., 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. 1904
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.2047]

Title: [Elliston Perot Morris, Jr. and Marriott Canby Morris, Jr. riding a cart], Germantown
Description: Film negative showing Marriott C. Morris' sons Elliston Perot Morris Jr. and Marriott Canby Morris Jr. as boys riding on a four wheeled cart under a tree. Both boys wear caps and the Marriott Morris Jr. wears checkered sailor suit., 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, 1908
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.2013.13.219]

Title: [Elliston Perot Morris Jr. in sand]
Description: Film negative showing Marriott C. Morris' son Elliston Perot Morris Jr. as a boy laying in the sand next to the figure of a man he has built in the sand. Morris smiles and holds a stick in his right hand. He wears a coat and hat., Title supplied by cataloger., 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 21, 1909
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.2013.13.341]

Title: [Thomas C. Potts with Sarah Rhoads Potts over his shoulder] Sea Girt, NJ
Description: Film negative showing Marriott C. Morris' brother-in-law Thomas C. Potts hoisting Morris' niece Sarah Rhoads Potts as a baby over his shoulder on a porch. The baby smiles and waves her arms., 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.2013.13.290]

Title: [Helen Dickey Potts on the beach], Sea Girt, NJ
Description: Film negative showing Marriott C. Morris' niece Helen Dickey Potts as a girl playing in the sand on the beach. She wears a checkered dress and a bow in her hair. A slab of driftwood with various shells and other objects on top of it sits in front of her., 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.2013.13.304]

Title: [Marriott Canby Morris, Jr. with a toy boat], Sea Girt, NJ
Description: Film negative showing Marriott C. Morris' son Marriott Canby Morris Jr. as a boy wading in Wreck Pond with a toy boat floating near his ankles. He wears a straw hat and a sailor suit., 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.2013.13.305]

Title: Classical Seminary. Franklin Square. S.E. corner Race & Seventh streets, Philadelphia
Description: View looking past Franklin Square showing the boy's school, later the Classical Institute, founded in 1837 by John W. Faires at 47 N. 8th Street. An iron-wrought fence separates the square from the row of buildings, including the school, in the background. In the foreground, children play and families stroll within the square. Two boys play with hoops and a couple admires the fountain., pdcc00003, Philadelphia on Stone, Free Library of Philadelphia: Castner 17:20
Date: [ca. 1838]
Location: Free Library of Philadelphia. | Print and Photograph Collection. FLP Castner 17:20

Title: South east view of West-town Boarding School. Chester Co. Penna. Instituted 1794, opened 1799, enlarged 1847
Description: Genre scene showing female students gathered on the main path and grounds at the west end of the main building of the co-educational Quaker boarding school. Girls stroll, converse, read under a tree, and hold hands in a game. Also shows a man with a young boy, and another man carrying two baskets, walking on the grounds landscaped with several trees. Westtown was established in 1794 by the Society of Friends as a boarding school for boys and girls. The campus was separated into the girls' and boys' bounds, i.e., yards for recreation. Sledding, or coasting, was a favorite winter activity., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone., POSP 222, Westtown School Archives
Creator: Collins, John, 1814-1902, artist
Date: 1858
Location: Westtown School Archives WSA Collins color, Westtown School Archives WSA Collins bw

Title: [John Mundell & Co. trade cards]
Description: Series of illustrated trade cards for John Mundell & Co.'s solar tip shoes manufactured in Philadelphia. One illustration, labeled "Girard College Philada, where 200 boys wear our solar tip shoes," depicts a small group of girls watching a large group of boys playing ball on the lawn in front of Founder's Hall, Girard College. A marching band passes through in the background. Also shows two scenes, "The foolish man" depicting a flustered father surrounded by bills and upset children wearing worn shoes juxtaposed with "The wise man" who purchased solar tip shoes and is surrounded by happy, smiling children. Girard College, designed by Philadelphia architect Thomas Ustick Walter and constructed between 1833-1847, occupied a site between what became Girard Avenue and Ridge Avenues at Corinthian Avenue. Girard College was established through a bequest from Stephen Girard, a Philadelphia financier and philanthropist, for the creation of a school for poor white male orphans., Printers and engravers include E. Ketterlinus & Co. (Philadelphia)., Advertising text printed on versos includes John Mundell & Co.'s trademark and promotes solar tip shoes., Distributor's imprint printed on verso of P.9806: At wholesale by McKee & Branham, Indianapolis, Ind., Distributors' imprints printed on verso of P.9800: wholesale dealers, Dunn, Salmon & Co., Syracuse, N.Y.; sold at retail by M.E. Aldrich, Philadelphia, N.Y., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1885]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Mundell [P.9800 & P.9806]

Title: [Bertha T. and Clement B. Webster near the smokehouse, Mount Equity, Pennsdale, Pa.]
Description: Depicts the photographer's brother, Clement B. Webster, with his wife, Bertha T. Webster, near the smokehouse on the property of Mount Equity in Pennsdale, Pa. Bertha is attired in a striped dress, standing against the shed with a tennis racket in hand. Clement sits at her feet, resting his elbow on a pumpkin. The photographer's aunt, Hannah Mary S. Taylor, rented Mount Equity from her son-in-law's family during the summer months of 1889 and 1890., A small stone section of Mount Equity, known as "The Cottage," was constructed near the Wolf Run House in Pennsdale, Pa. ca. 1810 by Mercy Ellis after the death of her husband, William Ellis. After her death in 1848, her children used the cottage primarily during the summer months. Her son Charles Ellis built a stone addition to the house in 1861 and a rear kitchen wing was added by the family in 1882. It was around this time that the enlarged house shed its name as "The Cottage," and was known as Mount Equity. The property is now home to a Buddhist Monastery, Mt. Equity Zendo Jihoji., Modern reference print #30 available in research file., Attributed to John H. Webster but may have been taken by other Webster family members.
Creator: Webster, John H., 1861-1934, photographer
Date: ca. 1890
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Webster [P.9501.69]

Title: [E. Burthey trade cards]
Description: Series of illustrated trade cards for Etienne Burthey's Philadelphia confectionery at 324 South Third Street. Eight prints illustrate the French folksong, "Marlbrough s'en va-t-en guerre". Views show the Duke of Marlborough leaving for war; Marlborough with another man carrying his sabre; Marlborough's wife looking through a telescope from a stone tower; two men with the deceased Marlborough's helmet; his wife's worried page carrying a letter; and his wife seated, with the page crying into a handkerchief nearby, after receiving news of Marlborough's death; and two men carrying his coffin. Additional illustrations depict men and women playing lawn tennis and archery; a group of children performing a variety of activities, including playing with a train, performing magic tricks, and training a dog; naked cherubs in the snow and on a swing; flowers; birds; bees; and butterflies. Burthey's confectionery business occupied 324 South Third Street from 1877 to 1881., Printers and engravers include A. Ponsot (Paris, France), Stafford (Frankford, Pa.), and Thomas S. Dando & Co. (Philadelphia, Pa.), Includes series of five prints by Thomas S. Dando & Co. with advertising text printed on versos: F. Burthey, manufacturer of all sorts of chocolates, bonbons, Parisian style, 324 South Third St., Philadelphia. Prints also contain titles on rectos, including "Royal lawn tennis," "Le petit mencanicien," "Le petit magicien," "Le chien d'education," and "Tir a l'arc.", Includes series of eight prints printed by Ponsot, Paris with imprint, "E. Burthey, maison Francaise de chocolat et confiserie, 324 South Third St., Philadelphia" and various titles in French on rectos including, "Marlborough s'en va-t-en guerre," "L'un portrait son grand sabre," "Madame monte à sa tour," "L'autre portrait son casque," "Elle voit venir son page," "Monsieur Marlborough est mort," "Chacun s'en fut chez soi," and "J' l'ai vu porter en terre.", Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Burthey [1975.F.37; 1975.F.39; 1975.F.41-44; 1975.F.46; 1975.F.48; 1975.F.64-65; 1975.F.70; 1975.F.74; 1975.F.77; 1975.F.84; 1975.F.96; 1975.F.98-99; 1975.F.101-104; 1975.F.108; 1975.F.115]

Title: [Marriott C. Morris Jr. and Elliston P. Morris Jr. playing in water, Sea Girt, NJ]
Description: Film negative showing a view of Marriott C. Morris' sons Marriott Canby Morris Jr. and Elliston Perot Morris Jr. dressed in wide brimmed hats and sailor suits playing on a log floating in Wreck Pond. Marriott Morris crouches on the log while Elliston Morris stands nearby holding a stick. Buildings are visible on the far shore 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: Summer 1907
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.2013.13.112]

Title: [Elliston P. Morris Jr. and Marriott C. Morris Jr. playing with wagon, Sea Girt, NJ]
Description: Film negative showing Marriott C. Morris' sons Elliston Perot Morris Jr. and Marriott Canby Morris Jr. as boys sitting in the sand at the bottom of a wooden staircase at Sea Girt. Both boys wear sailor suits and hats and Marriott Morris Jr. on the right plays with a toy wagon and blocks., 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.2013.13.92]

Title: [Elliston Perot Morris Jr. and Marriott Canby Morris Jr. with toy sailboats, Wreck Pond, Sea Girt, NJ]
Description: Film negative showing Marriott C. Morris' sons Elliston Perot Morris Jr. and Marriott Canby Morris Jr. as boys playing with toy sailboats at the edge of Wreck Pond. The lakeshore is lined with trees and the roof of a large house is visible on the opposite side of the water. The boys wear sailor suits with wide-brimmed 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: Summer 1907
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.2013.13.98]

Title: Elliston & Marriott playing trains [Sea Girt]
Description: Film negative showing Marriott C. Morris' sons Elliston Perot Morris Jr. and Marriott Canby Morris Jr. as young boys playing in the sand on the beach at Sea Girt. They wear white shirts and ties. Elliston Morris Jr. on the left drags a toy through tracks made in the sand. Marriott Morris Jr. on the right watches., Inscription on negative: Elliston + Marriott Sea Girt 6/23, 1912, Originally located in negative album [P.2013.13a], 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 23, 1912
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.2013.13.503]

Title: Group on see saw, Meadow Farm, [including Jane Rhoads Morris and Marriott Canby Morris Jr. Darlington, MD]
Description: Film negative showing a group of women and children, including Marriott C. Morris' wife Jane Rhoads Morris and their son Marriott Canby Morris Jr., playing on a see saw at Meadow Farm. A woman, boy, and two girls sit on the left side of the see saw while three boys sit on the right side. Jane Morris stands in the middle with her hands on either side. Meadow Farm house was built between 1825 and 1830 by Isaac or Aquila Massey. A small dwelling that likely existed on this site during the revolution was incorporated into the main structure. The house went through numerous additions and alterations, including the addition of the summer porch in 1895., Inscription on negative: At Meadow Farm 8/4, 1912, Originally located in negative album [P.2013.13a], 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: August 4, 1912
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.2013.13.512]

Title: [Elliston Perot Morris Jr. and Marriott Canby Morris Jr. playing in sand, Sea Girt]
Description: Film negative showing a girl and three boys, including Marriott C. Morris' sons Elliston Perot Morris Jr. and Marriott Canby Morris Jr., playing in the sand. The girl wears a white dress with a large bow in her hair. The boy on the left wears short pants, a shirt, and tie. The Morris brothers wear sailor suits. Dune grass grows behind the children., 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.2013.13.129]

Title: [Four boys and a man with a dog] Boys Parlors Camp, Wildwood, NJ
Description: Film negative showing four boys and a man from the Boys' Parlors Club standing in front of a group of tents at Wildwood, N.J. The boy in the center hold an umbrella and two other boys carry a baseball bat and glove. A small, black dog rests between the center boy's legs. Founded in 1887, the Boys’ Parlors Association of Germantown served as a safe space for neighborhood children whose parents worked longer hours in an industrializing city. The name changed in 1907 to the Germantown Boys’ Club after joining ranks with the Boys and Girls Clubs of America. Marriott Canby Morris served as the president of the club in the first decade of the 1900s. Wildwood began developing as a coastal resort town in the 1890s, growing dramatically in popularity in the 1950s. The area was incorporated as a city in 1912., 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 1907
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.2013.13.144]

Title: [Group in a tree], Boys Parlors Camp, Wildwood, NJ
Description: Film negative showing a man and woman with a group of boys from the Boys' Parlors Association standing at the base of a tree at Wildwood, N.J. More boys and young men climb the trunk and sit in the branches above. A series of tents stands in the background. Founded in 1887, the Boys’ Parlors Association of Germantown served as a safe space for neighborhood children whose parents worked longer hours in an industrializing city. The name changed in 1907 to the Germantown Boys’ Club after joining ranks with the Boys and Girls Clubs of America. Marriott Canby Morris served as the president of the club in the first decade of the 1900s. Wildwood began developing as a coastal resort town in the 1890s, growing dramatically in popularity in the 1950s. The area was incorporated as a city in 1912., 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 1907
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.2013.13.146]

Title: [Parachute game], Boys Parlors Camp, Wildwood, NJ
Description: Film negative showing a group of boys and young men from the Boys' Parlors Association launching a young boy into the air with a large blanket at Wildwood, N.J. An American flag flying on a makeshift flagpole and a tent stand in the background. Founded in 1887, the Boys’ Parlors Association of Germantown served as a safe space for neighborhood children whose parents worked longer hours in an industrializing city. The name changed in 1907 to the Germantown Boys’ Club after joining ranks with the Boys and Girls Clubs of America. Marriott Canby Morris served as the president of the club in the first decade of the 1900s. Wildwood began developing as a coastal resort town in the 1890s, growing dramatically in popularity in the 1950s. The area was incorporated as a city in 1912., 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 1907
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.2013.13.150]

Title: [Parachute game], Boys Parlors Camp, Wildwood, NJ
Description: Film negative showing a group of boys and young men from the Boys' Parlors Association launching a young boy into the air with a large blanket at Wildwod, N.J. An American flag flying on a makeshift flagpole and tents stand in the background. Founded in 1887, the Boys’ Parlors Association of Germantown served as a safe space for neighborhood children whose parents worked longer hours in an industrializing city. The name changed in 1907 to the Germantown Boys’ Club after joining ranks with the Boys and Girls Clubs of America. Marriott Canby Morris served as the president of the club in the first decade of the 1900s. Wildwood began developing as a coastal resort town in the 1890s, growing dramatically in popularity in the 1950s. The area was incorporated as a city in 1912., 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 1907
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.2013.13.151]

Title: [Elliston Perot Morris Jr. and Marriott C. Morris Jr. with sailboats, Sea Girt]
Description: Film negative showing Marriott C. Morris' sons Elliston Perot Morris Jr. and Marriott Canby Morris Jr. as boys wading in Wreck Pond. They wear sailor suits with their pants rolled up and wide-brimmed hats. Each boy carries a toy sailboat., 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.2013.13.138]

Title: The life & age of man. Stages of man's life from the cradle to the grave
Description: Allegorical print containing a portrayal of a male figure aging from a baby to an older man on a pedestal of life. Includes rhymed couplets describing each age below the image corresponding to animal vignettes adorning the pedestal styled as up and down steps. Shows the figure, in the far left, as an infant as a "lamb like innocent" in the lap of his mother, her long dark hair loose down her back, and attired in a red dress; at the age of 10 with dark hair and attired in a blue pant suit and cap and holding a stick and hoop as he "goat like skips and joys"; at the age of 20 attired in a black top hat, black waistcoat, and blue striped pants when "love doth swell his veins and heifer like untamed remains"; at the age of 30 attired in a military uniform "with bull like strength he smites his foes"; at the age of 40 attired in a military uniform holding a sword and flag and "naught his courage quails but lion like by force prevails"; at the age of 50 with greying hair, attired in a black suit and top hat, and his "strength fails but with wit fox like he helps to manage it"; at the age of 60 with long white hair, attired in a black suit and top hat, and holding out a cane while "wolf like he tries his wealth to raise"; at the age of 70 with rounded shoulders and attired in a black long coat and top hat and cane in hand, "he'll hear and tell but dog like loves at home to dwell"; at the age of 80 slightly hunched and reaching out as "a cat keeps house and loves the fire" he has the same desire; at the age of 90, in the far right, severely hunched over and reliant on a cane that he must suffer everywhere as "weak asses backs were made to bare"; and at the age of 100, attired in a white night gown, seated in a chaise lounge, and tended by a young woman, attired in a red dress and holding a cup as "the sick of life the grave he fears.", Image also includes a tree in full leaf (left), a dead withered tree (right), and a vignette scene set in a tree-lined pasture behind a stone wall entitled "Resist the Devil and he will flee from you!" Scene shows bare-chested male figure attired in a loincloth and with their left hand up and right arm out between a couple, in the right, and a table of men drinking, in the left. A cross is seen in the distance behind the couple., Title from item., Date inferred from dates publisher Nathaniel Currier operated as sole proprietor of his firm., Printed on recto: 87., Currier operated as a sole proprietor at 152 Nassau Street from 1838 to 1857 before partnering with Frederick Ives.
Creator: Currier, Nathaniel, 1813-1888
Date: [ca. 1847]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *GC - Allegories [P.2004.14.1]

Title: [African American primary school classroom]
Description: Depicts two African American women teachers overseeing a class of African American grade school children. The younger children play on the floor and at tables with blocks. The older ones sit and read on benches lining the wall. On the floor, a group of girls play with white dolls as others ride on tricycles and push a carriage. In the left, a teacher stands by two blackboards; one board lists the names of good and bad boys, and the other of good and bad girls. Stencils of animals and playing children decorate the walls., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from attire of the people., Gift of Joseph Kelly, 1982., Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022., 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: Photo Illustrators (Firm), photographer
Date: [ca. 1930]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Photo-Illustrators [P.8846.29]

Title: [Group in a tree, Boys Parlors Camp, Wildwood, NJ]
Description: Photograph showinga man and woman with a group of boys from the Boys’ Parlors Association standing at the base of a tree at Wildwood, N.J. More boys and young men climb the trunk and sit in the branches above. A series of tents stands in the background. Founded in 1887, the Boys’ Parlors Association of Germantown served as a safe space for neighborhood children whose parents worked longer hours in an industrializing city. The name changed in 1907 to the Germantown Boys’ Club after joining ranks with the Boys and Girls Clubs of America. Marriott Canby Morris served as the president of the club in the first decade of the 1900s. Wildwood began developing as a coastal resort town in the 1890s, growing dramatically in popularity in the 1950s. The area was incorporated as a city in 1912., Photograph from negative number P.2013.13.146., 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 1907
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.2013.13.577]

Title: [Parachute game, Boys Parlors Camp, Wildwood, NJ]
Description: Photograph showing a group of boys and young men from the Boys’ Parlors Association launching a young boy into the air with a large blanket at Wildwod, N.J. An American flag flying on a makeshift flagpole and tents stand in the background. Founded in 1887, the Boys’ Parlors Association of Germantown served as a safe space for neighborhood children whose parents worked longer hours in an industrializing city. The name changed in 1907 to the Germantown Boys’ Club after joining ranks with the Boys and Girls Clubs of America. Marriott Canby Morris served as the president of the club in the first decade of the 1900s. Wildwood began developing as a coastal resort town in the 1890s, growing dramatically in popularity in the 1950s. The area was incorporated as a city in 1912., Photograph from negative number P.2013.13.151., 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 1907
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.2013.13.583]

Title: [Parachute game, Boys Parlors Camp, Wildwood, NJ]
Description: Photograph showing a group of boys and young men from the Boys’ Parlors Association launching a young boy into the air with a large blanket at Wildwood, N.J. An American flag flying on a makeshift flagpole and a tent stand in the background. Founded in 1887, the Boys’ Parlors Association of Germantown served as a safe space for neighborhood children whose parents worked longer hours in an industrializing city. The name changed in 1907 to the Germantown Boys’ Club after joining ranks with the Boys and Girls Clubs of America. Marriott Canby Morris served as the president of the club in the first decade of the 1900s. Wildwood began developing as a coastal resort town in the 1890s, growing dramatically in popularity in the 1950s. The area was incorporated as a city in 1912., Photograph from negative number P.2013.13.150., 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 1907
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.2013.13.584]

Title: [Four boys and a man with a dog, Boys Parlors Camp, Wildwood, NJ]
Description: Photograph showing four boys and a man from the Boys' Parlors Association standing in front of a group of tents at Wildwood, N.J. The boy in the center holds an umbrella and two other boys carry a baseball bat and glove. A small, black dog rests between the center boy's legs. Founded in 1887, the Boys’ Parlors Association of Germantown served as a safe space for neighborhood children whose parents worked longer hours in an industrializing city. The name changed in 1907 to the Germantown Boys’ Club after joining ranks with the Boys and Girls Clubs of America. Marriott Canby Morris served as the president of the club in the first decade of the 1900s. Wildwood began developing as a coastal resort town in the 1890s, growing dramatically in popularity in the 1950s. The area was incorporated as a city in 1912., Photograph from negative number P.2013.13.144., 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 1907
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.2013.13.574]

Title: [Sledding ramp]
Description: Photograph showing a wooden ramp standing in the snow covered yard at Morris’ home at 131 W. Walnut Lane. A boy rides a sled down the ramp., Photograph from negative number P.2013.13.328., 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 7, 1909
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.2013.13.619]

Title: [Sledding ramp, 131 W. Walnut Lane]
Description: Film negative showing two children playing on a snow covered sledding ramp at Morris' home at 131 W. Walnut Lane. One child slides down the hill while the other stands at the top of the ramp., 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 1908
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.2013.13.183]

Title: [Sledding ramp, 131 W. Walnut Lane]
Description: Film negative showing a wooden ramp standing in the snow covered yard at Morris' home at 131 W. Walnut Lane. A boy rides a sled down the ramp., 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.2013.13.328]

Title: [Marriott Canby Morris Jr. and Helen Dickey Potts wading] Sea Girt, NJ
Description: Film negative showing Marriott C. Morris' son Marriott Canby Morris Jr. and niece Helen Dickey Potts wading in Wreck Pond. Potts on the left wears a checkered outfit with a wide-brimmed hat and holds up a glass bottle filled with water. Morris on the right wears a sailor suit with a wide-brimmed hat., 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.2013.13.278]

Title: [Marriott Canby Morris Jr. and Helen Dickey Potts wading], Sea Girt, NJ
Description: Film negative showing Marriott C. Morris' son Marriott Canby Morris Jr. and niece Helen Dickey Potts as children wading near the shore at Wreck Pond. Morris on the left wears a hat and bends down to place a toy boat in the water. Potts on the right wears a plaid outfit and a wide-brimmed hat., August & September, 1980., 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.2013.13.279]

Title: [Elliston Perot Morris Jr. with a toy boat], Sea Girt, NJ
Description: Film negative showing Marriott C. Morris' son Elliston Perot Morris Jr. crouching in a beached canoe as he places a toy boat in the water. Other canoes rest on the sand on either side of him., 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.2013.13.284]

Title: [Elliston Perot Morris, Jr. and Marriott Canby Morris Jr. with wagon], Down Rancocas, NJ
Description: Film negative showing Marriott C. Morris' sons Elliston Perot Morris, Jr. and Marriott Canby Morris Jr. as boys pushing a wagon down a garden path near Rancocas Creek. Elliston Morris Jr. crouches in the wagon and Marriott Morris Jr. pushes from behind. The Rancocas Creek is a tributary of the Delaware River located in south-west New Jersey., 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 29, 1909
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.2013.13.348]

Title: [Janet Morris]
Description: Film negative showing Marriott C. Morris' daughter Janet Morris as a baby in a playpen in the garden at their home at 131 W. Walnut Lane. She wears a loose, white frock. The playpen sits on a blanket in the grass. A house is visible behind the garden., Title supplied by cataloger., 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: June 23, 1908
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.2014.42.13]

Title: M[arriott] C[anby] M[orris] Jr. wheeling J[anet] M[orris]; E[lliston] P[erot] M[orris] Jr. on "Irish Mail"
Description: Film negative showing Marriott C. Morris' son Marriott Canby Morris Jr. as a boy pushing Morris' daughter Janet Morris as a baby in a carriage down a garden path. Morris' eldest son Elliston Perot Morris Jr. rides a wooden cart further down the path. Marriott Morris Jr. wears a sailor suit while Janet morris wears a knitted sweater and a cap., 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.2014.42.60]

Title: The life & age of man. Stages of man's life from the cradle to the grave
Description: Allegorical print containing a portrayal of a male figure aging from a baby to an older man on a pedestal of life. Includes rhymed couplets describing each age below the image corresponding to animal vignettes adorning the pedestal styled as up and down steps. Shows the figure, in the far left, as an infant as a "lamb like innocent" in the lap of his mother, her long dark hair loose down her back, and attired in a red dress; at the age of 10 with dark hair and attired in a blue pant suit and cap and holding a stick and hoop as he "goat like skips and joys"; at the age of 20 attired in a black top hat, black waistcoat, and blue striped pants when "love doth swell his veins and heifer like untamed remains"; at the age of 30 attired in a military uniform "with bull like strength he smites his foes"; at the age of 40 attired in a military uniform holding a sword and flag and "naught his courage quails but lion like by force prevails"; at the age of 50 with greying hair, attired in a black suit and top hat, and his "strength fails but with wit fox like he helps to manage it"; at the age of 60 with long white hair, attired in a black suit and top hat, and holding out a cane while "wolf like he tries his wealth to raise"; at the age of 70 with rounded shoulders and attired in a black long coat and top hat and cane in hand, "he'll hear and tell but dog like loves at home to dwell"; at the age of 80 slightly hunched and reaching out as "a cat keeps house and loves the fire" he has the same desire; at the age of 90, in the far right, severely hunched over and reliant on a cane that he must suffer everywhere as "weak asses backs were made to bare"; and at the age of 100, attired in a white night gown, seated in a chaise lounge, and tended by a young woman, attired in a red dress and holding a cup as "the sick of life the grave he fears.", Image also includes a tree in full leaf (left), a dead withered tree (right), and a vignette scene set in a tree-lined pasture behind a stone wall entitled "Resist the Devil and he will flee from you!" Scene shows bare-chested male figure attired in a loincloth and with their left hand up and right arm out between a couple, in the right, and a table of men drinking, in the left. A cross is seen in the distance behind the couple., Title from item., Date inferred from dates publisher Nathaniel Currier operated as sole proprietor of his firm., Printed on recto: 87., Currier operated as a sole proprietor at 152 Nassau Street from 1838 to 1857 before partnering with Frederick Ives.
Creator: Currier, Nathaniel, 1813-1888
Date: [ca. 1847]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *GC - Allegories [P.2004.14.1]

Title: South east view of West-town Boarding School. Chester Co. Penna. Instituted 1794, opened 1799, enlarged 1847
Description: Genre winter scene showing male students frolicking in the snow at the east end of the main building of the co-educational Quaker boarding school. Boys build snowmen, have snow ball fights, and sled on the snow-laden grounds covered with footsteps. Westtown was established in 1794 by the Society of Friends as a boarding school for boys and girls. The campus was separated into the girls' and boys' bounds, i.e., yards for recreation. Sledding, or coasting, was a favorite winter activity., Not in Wainwright., Mount contains printed border., Date inferred from companion prints (colored and uncolored) in the collection of Westtown School Archives, Westtown, Pa., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 221, Westtown School Archives holds multiple copies., Stamped on recto: Harold E. Gillingham Collection.
Creator: Collins, John, 1814-1902, artist
Date: [ca. 1858]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bb 46 W 538

Title: [William B. Dixey trade cards]
Description: Series of illustrated trade cards, including the titles, "Caught!" "Peacemaker," "Eggspectation," "The glorious fourth," "Sleighing," and "A fowl blow," for William B. Dixey's plumbing, gas and steam fitting business at 3826 Market Street in West Philadelphia. Illustrations include Christmas and Independence Day imagery and depict children performing a variety of activities, including picking apples, playing and pulling a Christmas tree in the snow, smelling flowers, acting, and diving. Also includes a man being blown up by a gas explosion, a group of men thrown onto the ice from their horse-drawn sleigh, frogs, ducks, chicks, eggs, flowers, balloons, dogs and cats., Printers and engravers include E. Ketterlinus & Co., Eleven prints contain the following advertisement: Agents for Hellyer's Water Closets., Four prints die cut and shaped into decorative fans., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1885]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Dixey [1975.F.93; 1975.F.222a; 1975.F.224; 1975.F.228; 1975.F.232; 1975.F.233 & 234; 1975.F.236-239; 1975.F.241-243; 1975.F.263 & 264; 1975.F.278-281; 1975.F.285; 1975.F.287]

Title: [Theo. Ricksecker's trade cards]
Description: Series of illustrated trade cards depicting a jester and a frog performing a variety of activities, including the jester playing a banjo and the frog dancing; the frog posing and the jester sketching his portrait; and the frog bound to a leaf stem and the jester aiming a bow and arrow at an apple on top of the frog's head., Title supplied by cataloger., Advertising text printed on versos promotes Ricksecker's skin soap, reliable perfumes, Fifth Avenue Cologne, and face powder., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Ricksecker [1975.F.747-749]

Title: [Group with tennis rackets on lawn of Mount Equity, Pennsdale, Pa.]
Description: Double exposure depicting a group posing with tennis rackets on a lawn and a horse-drawn buggy on a dirt path. The group, including the photographer's brother, Clement B. Webster, and his wife, Bertha T. Webster, is more prominent in the photograph. Includes a young man, possibly Walter S. Taylor, lying in the grass. Behind him an unidentified woman sits in a chair. A little girl stands between Clement and Bertha. Depicts the group on the property of Mount Equity in Pennsdale, Pa, rented by the photographer's aunt, Hannah Mary S. Taylor, during the summer months of 1890 and 1891., A small stone section of Mount Equity, known as "The Cottage," was constructed near the Wolf Run House in Pennsdale, Pa. ca. 1810 by Mercy Ellis after the death of her husband, William Ellis. After her death in 1848, her children used the cottage primarily during the summer months. Her son Charles Ellis built a stone addition to the house in 1861 and a rear kitchen wing was added by the family in 1882. It was around this time that the enlarged house shed its name as "The Cottage," and was known as Mount Equity. The property is now home to a Buddhist Monastery, Mt. Equity Zendo Jihoji., Attributed to John H. Webster but may have been taken by other Webster family members.
Creator: Webster, John H., 1861-1934, photographer
Date: ca. 1890
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Webster [P.9501.95]

Title: [Croft, Wilbur & Co. trade cards]
Description: Series of illustrated trade cards promoting confectioners Croft, Wilbur & Co. and depicting children performing a variety of activities, including two white girls playing tug-of-war over a wrapped piece of candy; and boys and girls eating sweets, including a white boy eating a candy stick while holding his dog on a leash. Also shows flowers; a courting white boy and girl couple sitting on a log; two white boy clowns dancing, playing a drum, and strutting a homemade pitchfork; and a man in Colonial attire popping out of a large cracker or bon-bon and dumping candy to white woman who catches it in her skirt. Racist card depicting an African American boy, portrayed in caricature, and a white girl on a candy stick seesaw. In the left, shows the white girl attired in a large, white bonnet; a yellow dress with red polka dots; a blue and white checked smock; orange stockings; and brown shoes, sitting on a red and white striped candy stick. In the right, the barefooted African American boy, attired in an orange shirt and gray pants, sits on the other side of the candy see saw. The fulcrum is a piece of chocolate. Founded in Philadelphia in 1865 by Samuel Croft and Henry Oscar Wilbur, Croft, Wilbur & Co. divided into H.O. Wilbur & Sons and Croft and Allen in 1884., Title supplied by cataloger., Four prints printed by E. Ketterlinus & Co., Includes two prints [1975.F.120 and 1974.F.141] with advertising text printed on versos., Gift of Emily Phillips, 1883., RVCDC, Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Croft [1975.F.120; 1975.F.141; 1975.F.145; 1975.F.168; 1975.F.176; 1975.F.178; 1975.F.182a; 1975.F.196; 1975.F.210]

Title: [Elliston Perot Morris Jr. and Marriott Canby Morris Jr. with dog and toy boat, Sea Girt]
Description: Film negative showing four children, including Marriott C. Morris' sons Elliston Perot Morris Jr. and Marriott Canby Morris Jr., sitting in the sand on the beach at Sea Girt. A toy boat rests next to the girl who wears a ruffled white dress and a large bow in her hair. The boy on the left holds a small bicolor dog in his lap and wears a shirt and tie. The Morris brothers wear sailor suits., 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.2013.13.124]

Title: The Wesleyan Female Collegiate Institute, Wilmington, Del
Description: Exterior view showing the buildings and grounds. Two female students stand on the balcony, one reading a book. Two younger girls play in the yard below, one jumping rope and the other playing rings. Several white men and women pedestrians stroll before the front gate. In the street, an African American coachman stands beside a horse-drawn carriage., Title from item., Date inferred from content., See Weaver's diary for April 18, May 11, 12, 23 and 28, 1842 for references to his work on this print., Gwinczewski, a Wilmington artist and drawing instructor, served as teacher of perspective, drawing, painting, &c. at the Institute., Purchased 1972., 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.
Creator: Weaver, Matthias S., 1815 or 16-1847, lithographer
Date: [1842]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **GC - Education [8035.F.3]

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