See America First with Janet Morris
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All News, Beyond the Reading Room, Graphic Art Department News, Marriott C. Morris CollectionThe History of the Bicycle
All News, Beyond the Reading Room, Graphic Art Department News, Marriott C. Morris CollectionExploring the World of Marriott C. Morris
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All News, Beyond the Reading Room, Graphic Art Department News, Marriott C. Morris Collection, The Living BookFrocks and Frills: Children’s Fashion at the Turn of the 20th Century
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Marriott C. Morris took this photograph of his son, Marriott Jr., in 1903 outside their house on Cresheim Road in the Mt. Airy neighborhood. Young Marriott’s attire was typical for a boy of three at the time: skirted sailor suit, long…
Down the Shore with Marriott C. Morris
All News, Beyond the Reading Room, Graphic Art Department News, Marriott C. Morris CollectionAbout seven miles north of Avocado, the Morris family shore house located in Sea Girt, New Jersey, is the small town of Ocean Grove. Founded in 1869 by a group of devout Methodists as a permanent camp meeting location, Ocean Grove became a…
Negative/Positive
All News, Beyond the Reading Room, Graphic Art Department News, Marriott C. Morris CollectionThe way we experience photographs today is very different from the way people experienced them 120 years ago. We press the shutter on our digital cameras without concern; if the photograph doesn’t turn out it can easily be deleted. We…
Marriott C. Morris Collection Online
All News, Beyond the Reading Room, Graphic Art Department News, LCP News, Marriott C. Morris CollectionOver the next year, more than 1600 glass negatives, photographic prints, film negatives, and lantern slides by Philadelphia photographer Marriott Canby Morris (1863-1948) will be processed, digitized, and used to create a permanent online exhibition. …
The Marriott C. Morris Photograph Collection
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A young woman leans against a painted brick wall, her back straight and her hair dark hair pulled into a knot at the top of her head. She holds a baby in her arms wrapped snugly in a knitted blanket. The baby’s left hand is a blur of motion;…
Canoeing the Pine Barrens
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Though a desolate landscape, Philadelphians have long been drawn to the Pine Barrens of New Jersey for various reasons such as relaxation, trade, and industry. The Marriott C. Morris collection of photographs includes views of amateur…
A Few of Our Favorite Things, Part Eight: Marriott C. Morris Photograph Collection
All News, Beyond the Reading Room, Graphic Art Department News, Marriott C. Morris CollectionOne of my Print Department favorites is the Marriott C. Morris collection of photographic prints and negatives. Morris (1863-1948) was an amateur photographer who lived in Philadelphia, and the more than 1,500 photographs in this collection…