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Title: Nos. 5226, 5228, & 5234 (The Old Ship House) on Main St. Germantown
Description: Glass negative showing a view of two two-story stone buildings at 6336-6338 Germantown Avenue. A wooden fence extends from the left of the building and a telephone pole stands on the sidewalk in front. Trolley tracks run down the center of the road. Visible on the far right, the Ship House, built around 1760, was named for a plaster of Paris ship visible on the side of the building. It was variously a meeting hall for schools and churches, a hotel, and a ladies’ boarding school in 1836 under the ownership of James Ford. It also served as a stop for stage coaches from Chestnut Hill to Philadelphia. It belonged to Charles Bockius circa 1844. Visible in the center of the negative, the Metzger-Unrod house’s front section was built by Jacob Unrod circa 1806, and owned by Joshua Metzger, a soldier. Both houses were demolished in 1907., 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 25, 1889
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [*P.9895.3.7]

Title: Bockius house no. 4772 Main & Bruner's, (E[lliston] P. M[orris]'s) house, 4774, Main St. from the P[ost] O[ffice], [Germantown]
Description: Glass negative showing the Bockius House at 5430 Germantown Avenue and Marriott C. Morris' father Elliston P. Morris' property at 5434 Germantown Avenue. Other houses extend to the right lining the brick road. Trolley tracks run down the center of the road. Trees and telephone poles stand in the sidewalk that separates the houses from the road. A boy leans against a telephone pole in front of a stone house with shuttered windows. The Bockius House was built for Albert Ashmead as a wedding gift. It was later occupied by Charles R. Bockius, and eventually Elliston Perot Morris, who remodeled it in 1903. 4774 Main Street (later 5434 Germantown Avenue) was owned by William Ashmead, a wagon manufacturer, after the American Revolution. Elliston Perot Morris bought the building in 1907., Time: 8:20, Light: Good 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: April 17, 1889
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [*P.9895.1506]

Title: Back of [Bockius House] 4774 Main & our yard from end of flagstone path, [Deshler-Morris House, 5442 Germantown Avenue]
Description: Glass negative showing the Bockius House at 5434 Germantown Avenue with a wooden fence seen from across the wide lawn of the Deshler-Morris House at 5442 Germantown Avenue. Other houses are visible in the background. A line of bare trees separates the lawn from the other houses. The Bockius House was built for Albert Ashmead as a wedding gift. It was later occupied by Charles R. Bockius, and eventually Elliston Perot Morris, who remodeled it in 1903. David Deshler built the original four-room summer cottage on the 5442 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., Photographer remarks: Sample plates from Buchanan, Browley & Co. 6 doz. 4x5 Sp., 5 doz, 3 1/4 x 4 1/4, Sp. bought 3/26., Time: 5:10, Light: Faint 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: March 23, 1887
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.1084]

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