Double-exposed glass negative showing the Morris family home Avocado, a multi-story house with a path running along the right side. Slender trees grow in the garden. The house has a porch, a tower with a balcony, and tracery in the gables. Shadowy images of tree leaves are visible and cause an optical illustion in the upper right from the double exposure. Elliston Perot Morris bought property in Sea Girt, N.J. in 1875, where he built the summer home Avocado after designs by Quaker architect Hibberd Yarnall. Morris left Avocado, named after a Perot family estate in Bermuda, to his daughter Elizabeth Canby Morris in his will. It was sold in 1947 after her death. By 1958 the house had been demolished., 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. 1887
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.16.11]
