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- Title
- Our Niagara Party at rear of our parlor car. Taken at Elmira, N.Y. on return
- Description
- Glass negative showing a group of men and women posed on the back of a railroad car. They stand behind the railing on the car or in the tracks in front of it. The men wear long jackets and either wear or carry hats. The women wear long, high-necked dresses and all wear hats. A railroad conductor stands to the far right, in uniform. Marriott Morris' sister Elizabeth Canby Morris, father Elliston P. Morris, and mother Martha Canby Morris are included., Photographer remarks: Intens. 3/1888, Time: 3:30, Light: No 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
- February 27, 1888
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.1263]
- Title
- [Our Niagara Party at rear of our parlor car. Taken at Elmira, N.Y. on return]
- Description
- Glass negative showing a group of men and women posed on the back of a railroad car. They stand behind the railing on the car or in the tracks in front of it. The men wear long jackets and either wear or carry hats. The women wear long, high-necked dresses and all wear hats. A railroad conductor stands to the far right, in uniform. Marriott Morris' sister Elizabeth Canby Morris, father Elliston P. Morris, and mother Martha Canby Morris are included., Same subject as last., Photographer remarks: Intens. 3/1888, Time: 3:32, Light: No 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
- February 27, 1888
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.1264]
- Title
- Album of Pennsylvania R. R. scenery
- Description
- Souvenir viewbook containing twelve captioned views of prominent sites and landmarks of and along the Pennsylvania Railroad in the Mid-Atlantic. Includes "Pennsylvania R. R. Station, Jersey City, Showing Birds eye View of the Hudson River, New York City Etc."; "Pennsylvania R. R. Ferries Plying Between Jersey City & New York"; "New Brunswick N. J. Penna. R. R. Bridge Crossing the Raritan River"; "Broad St. Station Penna. R. R. Co. Philadelphia. Grandest R. R. Depot in America" with inset showing Independence Hall"; "New Public Building, Philadelphia Cor. Broad & Market Streets. Built of Marble & Granite. Grandest Single Structure in the World. Cost Already Over $15,000,000. View at Left, U. S. Mint. View on the Right, Penna. R. R. Depot."; "Views at Bryn Mawr, 10 miles West of Philadelphia: Bryn Mawr Hotel. Bryn Mawr Station. Residences."; "Penn. R.R. Bridge Crossing the Susquehanna River 6 Miles West of Harrisbugh PA"; "Lewiston Narrows"; "Jacks Narrows, From Mapleton"; "Along Jack Narrows"; "The Horse Shoe Curve, Pennsylvania Railroad"; "Near Bolivar on the Conemaugh with inset showing "Scene at Allegrippus"; "In the Pack Saddle, On the Conemaugh/Spruce Creek Tunnel"; "Penna. R. R. Co’s Depot, Pittsburgh Pa."; View of Pittsburgh & Allegheny City Pa. with inset showing "Iron Works South Side." Views also show American's first immigration center Castlegarden (i.e., Castle Clinton, Battery Park, N.Y.), traveling trains, piers, factories, pedestrian and street traffic, and landscapes, including mountains, valleys, and creeks. Some inset images also designed as trompe l'oeil., Publication information from copyright statement., Title from embossed brown morocco binding, front cover stamped: Album of Pennsylvania R. R. Scenery., Prints connected by accordion folds., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Housed in phase box., Gift of David Doret.
- Date
- [1888]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Album [P.2011.45.26]