Marriott C. Morris captured this image of his friends Anne and Mary Emlen in August, 1885, while in Sea Girt, NJ. Notice the flower tucked in one of the sister’s buttonholes!

#MorrisMonday

Marriott Canby Morris. Anne & Mary Emlen sitting on beach, [Sea Girt, NJ] August 23, 1885. 1 photograph: glass negative; 4 x 5 in.         

#TFW your body is at work but your mind is at the beach…

Marriott C. Morris captured this image of his daughter, Janet, while staying at the Morris family beach home in Sea Girt, NJ in June, 1912. #MorrisMonday

Marriott Canby Morris. Janet playing with sand box, S[ea] G[irt] [graphic]. 1 photograph: film negative; 5.75 x 3.5 in. June 23, 1912    

This circa 1887 glass plate negative of Avocado, the Morris Family’s home in Sea Girt, New Jersey, has us daydreaming about all-day reading on a wrap-around porch.  #MorrisMonday

Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer. [Front view of Avocado with two women sitting on the porch, Sea Girt, NJ] n.d 1 photograph: glass plate negative; 8.5 x 6.5 in.

This glass plate negative from 1883 proves the Morris Family should have been in a late-Victorian-period band called Bathing Group. #MorrisMonday

Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer. Bathing group No. 2. Sallie H. L. [Leachworth]?, M. N. [Maud Noble]?, B. C. M. [Bess C. Morris], S.B.M.[Sam B. Morris] & M. [Marriott]. [Sea Girt, NJ].  August 8, 1883. 1 photograph: glass plate negative; 4 x 5 in.   

The dapper young man standing in this image is the photographer featured in our #MorrisMonday series, Marriott C. Morris, rarely caught in front of the camera. This moment was captured in September 1886 In Sea Girt, NJ, where the Morris Family owned a home. 

Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer. Group on cellar door in front of cottage [Avocado]. Bess, Shober Kimber [HC ‘86], Anne Eshelen & self. [Sea Girt, NJ] September 6, 1886 1 photograph: glass plate negative; 4 x 5 in.

Here’s a pensive pair for this week’s #BoatsintheLibrary challenge!

Marriott C. Morris captured this moment in the summer of 1907 in Sea Girt, New Jersey, where the Morris Family owned a home. 

Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer. [Woman and dog in boat, Sea Girt] Summer 1907. 1 photograph: film negative; 3 x 4.5 in.

Marriott C. Morris took many photographs at his family’s summer home in Sea Girt, New Jersey over the course of his life. While a majority of the negatives in the Library Company’s collection show various views of their estate, Avocado, a small series of negatives shows large crowds and carriages as far as the eye can see on the beach. But what are all of these people doing here? And why does this event seem to only last for one day each year?

Curatorial and Reading Room Assistant Emma Ricciardi answers these questions in her latest blog post. Read all about Jersey Wash Day here:

http://librarycompany.org/2017/08/07/jersey-wash-day/

#MorrisMonday

Marriott Canby Morris. Jersey Wash Day, from Same Place [Top of Pavilion] Eastern Section. [Sea Girt, NJ], 1887. Glass negative. Marriott C. Morris Collection.

Our final #LibraryGetaway feature goes out to all the people who like a little beachside exercise during their vacay.

Photo-Illustrators, Ocean City, New Jersey Beach, gelatin silver photograph, ca. 1930. Library Company of Philadelphia. Gift of Joseph Kelly.

Everything’s coming up daisies on this #FloralFriday! 

This die cut, chromolithograph trade card from 1882 is an advertisement for luxury hotels The Colonnade Hotel and Congress Hall. 

The Colonnade Hotel was a luxury hotel completed in 1868 at 1500-1506 Fifteenth Street (southwest corner of Fifteenth and Chestnut streets) in Philadelphia. The hotel was named after the “Colonnade Row” of early nineteenth-century pillared, porched townhouses previously on the site. The hotel was demolished in 1925 for the erection of the Franklin Trust Company Building.

Cape May’s Congress Hall, one of the oldest seaside hotels, was built in 1816 by Thomas Hughes, at Beach Drive and Congress Street. The hotel, originally called the “Big House,” was renamed Congress Hall in 1828 when Hughes was elected to Congress. The grand lodging, able to accommodate 1,000 guests, was destroyed by the great fire of 1878 and rebuilt in brick the following year. Notice the verso of this trade card boasts “entire freedom from malaria”.

Colonnade Hotel, Philadelphia. Congress Hall, Cape May. [graphic]. [Philadelphia] 1882 1 print : chromolithograph ; 11 x 17 cm. (4.25 x 6.75 in.)

September rolled in with a scorcher of a weekend. The Morris family has the right idea. Summer isn’t over until it’s over. #justkeepswimming

Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer. [Two people swimming] Sea Girt, NJ.  August & September, 1908. 1 photograph: film negative; 3 x 4.5 in.