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- Title
- Portion of our Niagara Party at one end of Parlor Car. Taken at Mauch Chunk, [Pa.]
- Description
- Glass negative showing a group of people posed inside a train car. Both men and women stand, sit, and kneel to fit into the crowded space. There are luggage racks above the group and doors to the next compartment behind them., Photographer remarks: Intens. 3/13, '86, Time: 9:30 P.M., 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 27, 1888
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.1265]
- Title
- Engine & train at Hurd, N.J. near Lake Hopatcong. Party on engine
- Description
- Glass negative showing a small train on railroad tracks. People stand on every part of the train: the engine, coat car, flatbed cars and passenger car. Another empty track runs parallel to the train., Time: 8:00, Light: Fair sun, Digitization and cataloging has been made possible through the generosity of David Marriott Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, and William Perot Morris in memory of Marriott Canby Morris and his children: Elliston Perot Morris, Marriott Canby Morris Jr., and Janet Morris and in acknowledgment of his grandchildren: William Perot Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, Jonathan White Morris, and David Marriott Morris., Edited.
- Creator
- Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer
- Date
- August 12, 1889
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.1564]
- Title
- [Engine & train at Hurd, N.J. near Lake Hopatcong. Party on engine]
- Description
- Glass negative showing a small train on railroad tracks. People stand on every part of the train: the engine, coal car, flatbed cars and passenger car. Another empty track runs parallel to the train., Same as last, at Hurd, N.J., Time: 8:05, Light: Fair sun, Digitization and cataloging has been made possible through the generosity of David Marriott Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, and William Perot Morris in memory of Marriott Canby Morris and his children: Elliston Perot Morris, Marriott Canby Morris Jr., and Janet Morris and in acknowledgment of his grandchildren: William Perot Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, Jonathan White Morris, and David Marriott Morris., Edited.
- Creator
- Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer
- Date
- August 12, 1889
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.1565]
- Title
- Green Mt. engine & car at Summit, Rob. Mickle standing by cab, [Mount Desert Island, ME]
- Description
- Glass negative showing a train engine and car sitting on the tracks at Mount Desert Island. Rob Mickle stands next to the engine while two men sit or stand inside the engine. Three other men sit in the car. Mount Desert Island, the largest island off the coast of Maine, was popularized in the mid-19th century by Hudson River School painters as a nature retreat. From the late 19th century to around the 1930s the Island was a tourist destination for the social elite., Photographer remarks: Intens. 10/88, Time: 3:55, 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 16, 1888
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.1319]
- Title
- Group on the engine at Hurd, N.J. Near view
- Description
- Glass negative showing a group posed on the engine of a train. People stand and sit on the engine and the coal car while the engineer leans out the window and another man stands on the ground near the tracks., Photographer remarks: Poor neg., Time: 8:15 A.M., Light: Fair sun., Digitization and cataloging has been made possible through the generosity of David Marriott Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, and William Perot Morris in memory of Marriott Canby Morris and his children: Elliston Perot Morris, Marriott Canby Morris Jr., and Janet Morris and in acknowledgment of his grandchildren: William Perot Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, Jonathan White Morris, and David Marriott Morris., Edited.
- Creator
- Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer
- Date
- August 12, 1889
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.1566]
- Title
- Minature Train at Manheim Fete
- Description
- Film negative showing a view of people riding a miniature train at the Manheim Fete. The Manheim Club, later known as the Germantown Cricket Club, was founded in 1854 and is the second oldest surviving cricket club in the United States. The 1912 Fete was celebrated for the benefit of the Germantown Hospital., 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 8, 1912
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.2013.13.497]
- Title
- Our Niagara Party at rear of our parlor car. Taken at Elmira, N.Y. on return
- Description
- Glass negative showing a group of men and women posed on the back of a railroad car. They stand behind the railing on the car or in the tracks in front of it. The men wear long jackets and either wear or carry hats. The women wear long, high-necked dresses and all wear hats. A railroad conductor stands to the far right, in uniform. Marriott Morris' sister Elizabeth Canby Morris, father Elliston P. Morris, and mother Martha Canby Morris are included., Photographer remarks: Intens. 3/1888, Time: 3:30, Light: No 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 27, 1888
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.1263]
- Title
- [Our Niagara Party at rear of our parlor car. Taken at Elmira, N.Y. on return]
- Description
- Glass negative showing a group of men and women posed on the back of a railroad car. They stand behind the railing on the car or in the tracks in front of it. The men wear long jackets and either wear or carry hats. The women wear long, high-necked dresses and all wear hats. A railroad conductor stands to the far right, in uniform. Marriott Morris' sister Elizabeth Canby Morris, father Elliston P. Morris, and mother Martha Canby Morris are included., Same subject as last., Photographer remarks: Intens. 3/1888, Time: 3:32, Light: No 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 27, 1888
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.1264]

