After the Library was completed in 1906, several generations of Morgan children enjoyed playing on and around (and in some instances even inside) the exterior sculptures and artifacts. Here, one of Edward Clark Potter’s marble lionesses gamely sports a hat adorned with flowers. The darker building just beyond the Library was the home of J. Pierpont and Fanny Morgan, located at the corner of 36th Street and Madison Avenue. The house would be demolished in the 1920s and replaced with the Annex.
Page from a Morgan family photograph album, likely depicting Mabel and Eleanor Satterlee and others, ca. 1910–24
The Morgan Library & Museum Archives; ARC 3281