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Title: Penn's landing at Essex House, Chester
Description: Book illustration showing the reception of the William Penn landing party arriving ashore at Upland, renamed Chester, from the ship "Welcome" in October 1682. A couple, Robert and Lydia Wade, walks from the Essex House, the residence of Wade, toward the party. Cows graze nearby. Also includes a partial view of Penn's ship. The residence and temporary home for Penn, was situated near the intersection of Chester Creek and the Delaware River. Penn moored his ship at Chester, and arrived in Philadelphia via a barge upriver., Plate published in John F. Watson's Annals of Philadelphia...(Philadelphia: E.L. Carey & A. Hart, 1830), opp. p. 117., Manuscript note on recto: a different plate from that of the book., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 163, Gift of James Rush.
Creator: Breton, William L., artist
Date: [1830]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department BW - Events [9245.Q.10]

Title: In N.E. cor. of boys chamber at Westtown, showing Sam's bed (backgr[oun]d of picture)
Description: Glass negative showing Marriott C. Morris' brother Samuel Buckley Morris' dormitory at Westtown Boarding School. Beds line each wall and fill the center of the room. Two columns in the center of the room support the slanted ceiling and a small metal stove stands next to the column on the right. Chairs stand next to the beds and a trunk sits at the foot of the bed in the foreground. 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., Time: 5:15, Light: Not much light., 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, 1885
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.688]

Title: [In N.E. corner of boys chamber at Westtown, showing Sam's bed]
Description: Glass negative showing Marriott C. Morris' brother Samuel Buckley Morris' dormitory at Westtown Boarding School. Beds line the walls and stand in rows in the center of the room. A trunk sits between the two beds in the foreground and a small metal stove stands in the center of the room to the left. Chairs stand next to the beds. Two columns in the center of the room support the ceiling. 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., Time: 10:30, Light: Fair light, no sun., Another view in same part of chamber as 688., 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 13, 1885
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.691]

Title: [Graham House, Edgmont Avenue, Chester, Pennsylvania.]
Description: Exterior view of the Graham House built for John Hoskins in 1688 on the southeast corner of Edgmont Avenue and Graham Street, Chester, Pennsylvania. Shows an oblique view of the two-story brick house with shuttered windows and three dormer windows protruding from the roof. Two sets of stairs lead to the front door, which is covered by a portico. A white picket fence surrounds the property. A sign hangs on the front of the house, "Graham House John Hoskins 1688." An African American man leans on the second-story windowsill with his left hand resting on his face and looks at the viewer. Hoskins operated the house as an Inn., Title supplied by cataloger., Date from manuscript note written on mount: Pennsylvania Bi-centennial Photographs, 1882., Forms part of a series of eleven Pennsylvania Bi-centennial photographs by Bennett., Purchase 1978., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021.
Creator: Bennett, Nathaniel M., photographer
Date: 1882
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *Photographs-Bennett [P.8458.4]

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