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Title: Machines at Greene & Walnut Lane for asphalt paving of Greene St
Description: Film negative showing a group of large machines on a construction site at Greene Street and Walnut Lane. Smoke billows from the machines., Inscription on negative: 11/1912, 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: November 1912
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.2013.13.543]

Title: [715-719 Arch Street, Bowen, Dungan & Co. under renovation, Philadelphia]
Description: Glass negative showing a view of a large brick building owned by Marriott C. Morris' father Elliston P. Morris under construction at 715-719 Arch Street. Telephone wires travel through the air in front of the building as wooden scaffolding shields the street below. Two signs hang from the scaffolding. The left sign reads "Bowen, Dungan & Co. have resumed business 728 Arch St." The right sign reads "Doyle & Doak Contractors and Builders [..] 609 Sansom St." A sign in the first floor window behind the scaffolding reads "Uncle Tom's Cabin Co." The building was damaged by a fire in 1900., See *P.9895.8.12 and *P.9895.8.13., 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. 1906
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [*P.9895.8.9]

Title: [715-719 Arch Street, Bowen, Dungan & Co. under reconstruction, Philadelphia]
Description: Glass negative showing showing a view of a large brick building owned by Marriott C. Morris' father Elliston P. Morris under construction at 715-719 Arch Street. Telephone wires travel through the air in front of the building as wooden scaffolding shields the street below. Two signs hang from the scaffolding. The left sign reads "Bowen, Dungan & Co. have resumed business 728 Arch St." The right sign reads "Doyle & Doak Contractors and Builders [..] 609 Sansom St." A sign in the first floor window behind the scaffolding reads "Uncle Tom's Cabin Co." The building was damaged by a fire in 1900., See *P.9895.8.12 and *P.9895.8.13., 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. 1906
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [*P.9895.8.10]

Title: [Construction of Germantown Boys' Club near 10 W. Penn, Germantown]
Description: Film negative showing a view of the construction of the Germantown Boys' Club addition located between two brick buildings. A wooden fence separates the building on the left from construction debris piled on the sidewalk. A road runs in front of the buildings on the right. A sign advertising the builders is visible over the construction. 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. The Club originally rented a building on Rittenhouse Street starting in 1890. The main club building was constructed 1898-1899, with an addition built in 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: March 1909
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.105.1]

Title: [Construction of the Germantown Boys' Club near 10 W. Penn, Germantown. Man walking in foreground]
Description: Film negative showing a view of the construction of the Germantown Boys' Club addition located between two brick buildings. A wooden fence separates the building on the left from construction debris piled on the sidewalk. Two men walk down the road that runs in front of the buildings to the right. A sign advertising the builders is visible over the construction. 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. The Club originally rented a building on Rittenhouse Street starting in 1890. The main club building was constructed 1898-1899, with an addition built in 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: March 11, 1909
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.105.2]

Title: [Patriotic decorations on building facade near Germantown Boys' Club, 10 W. Penn, Germantown]
Description: Film negative showing a view of a building draped with American flags and patriotic bunting. A group of men works on the Germantown Boys' Club addition next to a brick wall and a pile of boards in the foreground. 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. The Club originally rented a building on Rittenhouse Street starting in 1890. The main club building was constructed 1898-1899, with an addition built in 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: March 1909
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.105.3]

Title: [Patriotic decorations on building facade near the Germantown Boys' Club, 10 W. Penn Germantown]
Description: Film negative showing a view of a building draped with American flags and patriotic bunting. A group of men works on the Germantown Boys' Club addition next to a brick wall and a pile of boards in the foreground. 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. The Club originally rented a building on Rittenhouse Street starting in 1890. The main club building was constructed 1898-1899, with an addition built in 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: March 1909
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.105.4]

Title: [Patriotic decorations on building facade near Germantown Boys' Club, 10 W. Penn Germantown]
Description: Film negative showing a view of a building draped with American flags and patriotic bunting. The building to the right has a sign that reads "John McConnell." A group of men works on the Germantown Boys' Club addition next to a brick wall and a pile of boards in the foreground. 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. The Club originally rented a building on Rittenhouse Street starting in 1890. The main club building was constructed 1898-1899, with an addition built in 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: March 1909
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.105.5]

Title: [Street and building construction of Germantown Boys' Club, 10 W. Penn Germantown]
Description: Film negative showing a view of the construction of the Germantown Boys' Club addition. Various construction materials and workers spill out onto the road that runs to the right of the site. A man stands near a wooden fence in the foreground and a building with a sign reading "John McConnell, horseshoer" is visible in the background. A sign advertising the builders hangs over the construction. 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. The Club originally rented a building on Rittenhouse Street starting in 1890. The main club building was constructed 1898-1899, with an addition built in 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: March 1909
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.105.6]

Title: Old Phila[delphia] Library, 5th & Library Sts from Independence Sq[uare] being torn down for Drexel's new building
Description: Glass negative showing exterior view looking east from State House Square at the red-brick building constructed on South Fifth Street for the Library Company of Philadelphia in 1789 after designs by Dr. William Thornton. After the construction of two new buildings - the Ridgway Building in South Philadelphia and the Furness building at Juniper and Locust Streets - the Fifth Street library was sold in 1880. A signboard for The Central News Company is visible across the front facade of the building, which in this image, is being demolished to make way for the Drexel Building. Men wearing suits and bowler hats sit in the grass nearby. The Forrest Building (119-127 South Fourth Street) is visible in the distance. Central News Company operated from the building from 1883 until 1886., Title from entry in photographer's diary., Inscribed in negative: No. 13., Photographer remarks: Overtimed., Time: 2:10, Light: Faint sun., Reproduced in The Print and Photograph Department of the Library Company of Philadelphia's Center City Philadelphia in the 19th century (Portsmouth, N.H.: Arcadia Publishing, 2006), p. 10., Arcadia caption text: In 1887, the old Library Company building was demolished to make way for the Drexel Building. Ironically, this office building was demolished in the late 1950s when the American Philosophical Society (founded 1743) built its state-of-the-art library on the site, featuring a reproduction of the Library Company’s original façade as designed by William Thornton., Digitization and cataloging edits have 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 22, 1887
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris [P.9895.1105]

Title: [Elliston Morris'] Store [715-719 Arch Street] from H. Heller's 2nd story window
Description: Glass negative showing a large, multi-story building owned by Marriott C. Morris' father Elliston P. Morris at 715-719 Arch Street. The top of the building is decorated with a pediment, half-circle window and finnials. A fire escape runs down the left facade above the neighboring building, which is under construction. The building to the right has two signs, one on the side reading "St Cloud Hotel," and one over the entrance reading, "This property for sale. 91 feet front. ...", Time: 12:10, 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 8, 1887
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.1094]

Title: Father's building, 715-19 Arch St. [from H. Heller's 2nd story window, Philadelphia]
Description: Glass negative showing a large, multi-story building owned by Elliston P. Morris at 715-719 Arch Street. The top of the building is decorated with a pediment, half-circle window and finnials. A fire escape runs down the left facade above the neighboring building, which is under construction. The building to the right has two signs, one on the side reading "St Cloud Hotel," and one over the entrance reading, "This property for sale. 91 feet front. ...", Same as last., Time: 2, 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 8, 1887
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.1095]

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