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- Title
- Arc du Triomphe, Paris. Copy
- Description
- Glass negative showing a page of an open book with a photograph of the Arc du Triomphe. Behind the book is the unfocused pattern of a porch railing., Photographer remarks: From a picture of J.E. Wilkinson's, Light: 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
- July 7, 1891
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [*P.9895.1626]
- Title
- [Sketchbook of Europe, Boston, and the Philadelphia area]
- Description
- Sketchbook containing pencil and ink drawings of ships, landscapes, sites in Paris, Boston, and the Philadelphia area, including exterior views of buildings and architectural features, and portraits. Sketches include: [Ships on the water]; Willow Tree, Chester Park 6/13/19; Hunting the Hun; Bridge Chester Park June 13, 1919; Musée de Cluny, Paris 7/17/20; 15th Cent. Well-Head from house near Amboise, Musée de Cluny 7/23/20; Top of Stair Tower, Musée de Cluny, Paris 8-10-20; [Exterior view of the wall with windows, probably Musée de Cluny]; Arc de Triomph Aug. 4, 1920; Musée de Cluny 7/4/20; South Side, Notre Dame, Paris, D.R.C.-Aug. 12-1920; Main Door of Deshong Art Gall., Chester, Pa.; Old Friend's Meeting House, Providence Road, Media, 1682, 11/14/20; Stable-Bartram's Gardens 5/21/21; Palmer's Mills, Crum Creek 11/21/20; Paul Taylor at Bartram's Gardens May 21, 1921; Doorway- Bartram's May 21, 1921; D.R.C. by Paul Taylor Bartram's - May 21-'21; [Portrait of a woman resting her head on her hand] 8/21/21; Park Street Church, Boston, Mass. - 8/25/'21; Hancock L.I. Building from Cloister of Trinity Church, Boston 9/1/'21; [exterior view of an unidentified building] 9/3/'21; Charles St. Church, Boston - Sept. 10-'21; Old House Newton Upper Falls, Mass. - 9/18/21; Hinge & Lock on Central Door Trinity Church - Boston, Boston Library Part 1; Elmus Americanus; Plan Pantheon., Title supplied by cataloger., Date from dates written on individual sketches., Cloth binding with "Sketches" embossed on the front cover and stamped "D.R. Cochran" on the back cover., Label pasted on endpaper: F. Weber & Co. Sketch Book. 9 x 6" - Each 30 cts., Gift of David Doret and Linda G. Mitchell, 2022., Donald Robb Cochran (1897-1986) was born in Chester, Pa. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a degree in architecture in 1921. From 1921 to 1923, he worked as a draftsman at the Boston firm of Frohman, Robb & Little. He then worked at the Philadelphia firm Mellor, Meigs & Howe until 1932. In 1933, he joined Sun Oil Co. as a staff architect.
- Creator
- Cochran, Donald Robb, 1897-1986
- Date
- 1919-1921
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Doret and Mitchell Collection – albums [P.2022.62.3.50]