Morris travel albums

About this collection

    The Morris family of Philadelphia were brewers, merchants, land speculators, manufacturers, and prominent participants in public affairs. Their presence in the region dates back to Anthony Morris, a Quaker who emigrated to Burlington, New Jersey in 1682, relocating to Philadelphia about three years later.
    John Thompson Morris (1847-1915) founded the Morris Arboretum in Germantown, Pennsylvania and served as overseer of public schools in Philadelphia. He and his sister Lydia (1849-1932) traveled around the world together on several Grand Tour trips from 1881 to 1906.
    The Morris travel albums (Accession 1976.432) collection contains fourteen albums of photographs and postcards from their travels. Only two of the albums have been digitized: Album 11,"France, Norway and Russia, 1903, Vol. 1" (which also includes Germany) and Album 12, "France, Norway and Russia, 1903, Vol. 2" (which also includes Germany, Sweden, and Finland).
    Image: View from Mosebacke, Stockholm, Sweden. Click here to view in the collection.

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