Collection, 1919.

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Collection, 1919.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/74874233

An invitation dated 1919 that requests Edward Morris attend the dinner at the Royal Canadian Yacht Club, Toronto, to meet the Prince of Wales. The album contains 40 exterior and interior photographs of the Edward Morris house, 4800 South Drexel Boulevard, Chicago, Illinois. The house was designed by Howard Van Doren Shaw, completed in 1919. The landscaping is attributed to Rose Standish Nichols.

1 linear ft. (1 box)

University of Chicago Library

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University of Chicago Library

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Nichols, Rose Standish

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Rose Standish Nichols (1872-1960) was one of America's first professional female landscape and garden designers, a writer of garden history and criticism, a lifelong pacificist, and a women's rights activist. She was the daughter of Dr. Arthur Howard Nichols (1840-1923) and Elizabeth Fisher Homer Nichols (1844-1929) of Boston, Massachusetts. She published three books and many articles on European garden design, helped found the Woman's International League for Peace and Freedom, and remained unm...

Royal Canadian Yacht Club

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House, Edward Morris, 1866-1913.

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Businessman. Born 1866. Married Helen Swift 1890. President of Morris & Company. Died 1913. From the description of Collection, 1919. (University of Chicago Library). WorldCat record id: 74874233 ...

Shaw, Howard van Doren, 1869-1926

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Edward Morris was President of Morris & Company, one of the three main meat-packing companies in Chicago at a time when that city was known as the meatpacking capital of the world. Upon his death, Morris was said to have amassed a personal fortune of $40 million. Morris was born in Chicago on October 1, 1866. His father, Nelson Morris, founded Morris & Co. Edward was educated in Chicago public schools, and his natural aptitude and interest in his father's busines...