Glass negative showing a large five-story building at Westtown Boarding School with stairs leading up to a porch on the second floor. Jonathan Willams and his wife Susanna sit on the porch near the stairs. In front of the building is a lawn with a path and trees. Westtown Boarding School, a coeducational Quaker boarding school, opened in 1799. The first building on the campus was designed by David Evans, a Quaker architect. Later buildings included Industrial Hall, built in 1869, and the new main building, built in 1888 after designs by Quaker Addison Hutton (1834-1916). The first diploma was awarded in 1862., Photographer remarks: Jonathan Williams & wife sitting on porch., Time: 12:00, Light: Very good., 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 27, 1885
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.578]
