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Title: Arch of trees over creek in Rain woods, at Uncle Samuel's, [Olney, PA]
Description: Glass negative showing a view of a creek with a wooden fence running over it at Marriott Morris' uncle Samuel Morris' house. Trees stand precariously on the steep banks, their branches reaching across the stream. A woman, likely Morris' cousin Hannah Perot Morris, stands near the stream in the background., Photographer remarks: Overtimed., Time: 3:30, 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 26, 1888
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.1273]

Title: H[annah] P. M[orris] and George's dog Donald. In front of ice house at Olney, [PA]
Description: Glass negative showing Marriott Morris' cousin Hannah Perot Morris with one hand on her hip and the other hand holding up a treat for the small bicolor dog sitting attentively at her feet. Morris wears a dark high-necked dress. A cellar door stands open on the right and a path covered with leaves extends to the left. The roof of an underground building is visible in the background., Photographer remarks: Fair sun obscured by flecey [sic] clouds., Time: 2:20, 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: October 21, 1886
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.1057]

Title: Fallen tree over Tacony Creek, Olney just below "Cape May." H[annah] P. M[orris] in boat
Description: Glass negative showing a tall tree fallen over Tacony Creek. Another tree stands where the fallen tree landed and a rowboat carrying Marriott Morris' cousin Hannah P. Morris floats down the creek., Time: 3:15 P.M., Light: Fair 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: October 25, 1888
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.1375]

Title: Don on back porch at Olney with H[annah] P[erot] M[orris]
Description: Glass negative showing Marriott Morris' cousin Hannah Perot Morris and Don, a speckle-coated dog, sitting on the porch at the residence of her father Samuel Morris. A neat hedge lines the path leading to the house and vines climb up the pillars of the porch. A bicycle leans against the wall in the background behind a rocking horse. Morris wears a long, high-necked dress and a hat., Photographer remarks: Overtimed., Time: 12:45, 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 26, 1888
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.1270]

Title: Han[nah Morris], cat & dog, [Olney, PA]
Description: Glass negative showing Marriott Morris' cousin Hannah Perot Morris standing next to a small tree on the property of her father Samuel Morris. She holds a cat in her arms. Don, a speckle-coard dog stands at her feet looking attentively at the cat. She wears a long dress and a hat., Time: 2:10, Light: Fair 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 26, 1888
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.1271]

Title: Hannah & George [Morris] in the "Owaissa" on Tacony Creek
Description: Glass negative showing Marriott C. Morris' cousins Hannah Perot Morris and George Spencer Morris in a canoe with the word "Owaissa" written on the hull. The canoe floats on the Tacony Creek as a tree brank extends over the bank., Photographer remarks: Boat in shadow., Time: 5:00, 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: June 12, 1885
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.617]

Title: Group in our parlor. Father, Cos. H[annah] P[erot] Morris, Auntie Beulah & Uncle Chas. Rhoads, Bess, Geo. S. Morris, Mother & Aunt Lydia Morris, also dog "Jet," [Deshler-Morris House, 5442 Germantown Avenue]
Description: Glass negative showing a group posed in a decorated interior of the Deshler-Morris House at 5442 Germantown Avenue, including Marriott Morris' parents Elliston P. Morris and Martha Canby Morris, sister Elizabeth Canby Morris, cousin George Spencer, aunts Lydia Morris and Beulah Rhoads, uncle Charles Rhoads, and secon cousin once removed Hannah Perot Morris. Charles Rhoads and Hannah Morris stand in the back while the others sit. Elizabeth Morris, in the center of the group, holds a small black dog, Jet, in her lap. The men wear three-piece suits and the women wear dark-colored dresses. David Deshler built the original four-room summer cottage on this 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., Time: 9 P.M., 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: May 17, 1888
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.1294]

Title: Family group at back porch of 4782 Main St., [Deshler-Morris House], Father, Bess, Hannah, Mother, Aunt Lydia, Uncle Charles Rhoads, Auntie Beulah. Geo. S. Morris & Catherine Harman. [Germantown]
Description: Glass negative showing a group of Marriott C. Morris' family, including his aunt Beulah Sansom Rhoads, uncle Charles Rhoads, father Elliston P. Morris, sister Elizabeth Canby Morris, cousin Hannah Perot Morris, mother Martha Canby Morris, aunt Lydia Spencer Morris, and cousin George Spencer Morris, as well as Catherine Harman gathered on the Deshler-Morris House porch at 5442 Germantown Avenue. Three of the women and one man sit in chairs in the front row while another woman sits behind them. Three of the men and two of the women stand in the back. The women wear long, high-necked dresses. Three of the women wear bonnets. The men wear three-piece suits. One man wears a top hat. David Deshler built the original four-room summer cottage on this 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., Time: 3:15, Light: 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 14, 1889
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [*P.9895.1503]

Title: [Family group at back porch of Deshler-Morris House, 4782 Main St. Father, Bess, Hannah, Mother, Aunt Lydia, Uncle Charles Rhoads, Auntie Beulah. Geo. S. Morris & Catherine Harman. Germantown]
Description: Glass negative showing a group of Marriott C. Morris' family, including his aunt Beulah Sansom Rhoads, uncle Charles Rhoads, father Elliston P. Morris, sister Elizabeth Canby Morris, cousin Hannah Perot Morris, mother Martha Canby Morris, aunt Lydia Spencer Morris, and cousin George Spencer Morris, as well as Catherine Harman gathered on the Deshler-Morris House porch at 5442 Germantown Avenue. Three of the women and one man sit in chairs in the front row while another woman sits behind them. Three of the men and two of the women stand in the back. The women wear long, high-necked dresses. Three of the women wear bonnets. The men wear three piece suits. David Deshler built the original four-room summer cottage on this 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: Longer exposure., Time: 3:20, Light: Good -sun out., Same group as last., 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 14, 1889
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [*P.9895.1504]

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