Elliston Perot Morris Jr. and
Marriott Canby Morris Jr. on Pocono Lake, 1909. P.2013.13.361.
The Marriott C. Morris Photograph Collection is now
available online in two ways. Almost 2500
photographic prints, negatives and lantern slides from the Morris Collection
are accessible on ImPAC, the Library Company’s digital
collections catalog. From September 2014
through the summer of 2015, Alison Van Denend, the Assistant Project Manager
for the Morris Collection, processed and digitized these photographs as part of
an effort to preserve, organize, and research the work of amateur Philadelphia
photographer Marriott C. Morris. The
Library Company’s entire collection of Morris’s work, including new materials
generously donated by Morris’s grandchildren David Marriott Morris, Eleanor
Rhoads Morris Cox, and William Perot Morris, is now accessible in one searchable
database. Each record contains a high
quality jpg file as well as information regarding the date, location, and
subject of the photograph gleaned from Morris’s meticulous journals.
In addition to the resources available on ImPAC, the Morris
Collection can be explored further via the project’s website. The website includes a family tree, copies of
Morris’s photographic journals, a link to ImPAC records, and all of Alison
Van Denend’s blog posts about the collection, as well as links to other repositories
with Morris’s work. Please visit http://www.morriscollection.librarycompany.org/
to learn more.
Mt. Rainier, Washington. August 5, 1921. P.2014.69.31.
