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Eastman residence

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Address: Not Known
Date: 1889 (circa)
House of John I. Eastman, listed in 1885 Media Directory at Washington, now Baltimore Ave., and Lemon St. Image is in “Media, Penna.” publication, 1889, p. 37, as “Miss Eastman's Cottage." See also 1892 Map of Media.

Elephant, in front of Charter House

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-4077-1.jpg
Date: 1890-1900
A unique form of advertising; see also AP-4077-2

Elephant, in front of Charter House

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-4077-2.jpg
Date: 1890-1900
A unique form of advertising; the elephant has a Charter House advertisement banner on its back. See also AP-4077-1

Floral apron

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Address: Not Known
Date: 1890-1900
Flowers form the numbers 298

Mrs. Maria Fussell, in coffin, deceased

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Location: Media (Pa.)
Date: 1897
Wife of Henry Bartholomew Fussell. Maria Douglass Fussell, 8/5/1822-9/11/1897, Media Cemetery, information from findagrave.com

Mrs. Maria Fussell, in coffin, deceased

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-4079-2.jpg
Location: Media (Pa.)
Date: 1897
Wife of Henry Bartholomew Fussell. Maria Douglass Fussell, 8/5/1822-9/11/1897, Media Cemetery, information from findagrave.com

Mrs. Maria Fussell, in coffin, deceased

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-4079-3.jpg
Location: Media (Pa.)
Date: 1897
Wife of Henry Bartholomew Fussell. Maria Douglass Fussell, 8/5/1822-9/11/1897, Media Cemetery, information from findagrave.com

Cat Fred

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-4080-1.jpg
Location: Media (Pa.)
Date: 1895-1900
Probably an Appleton family pet.

Cat Fred

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-4080-2.jpg
Location: Media (Pa.)
Date: 1895-1900
Probably an Appleton family pet.

Friends Select School

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-4081.jpg
Date: 1896 (circa)
Photograph of architectural rendering by Morgan Bunting, Architect. Building still stands on Gayley Street near Baker St. (2018). See also AP-5137, AP-5169, AP-5772.

Fronefield residence

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-4082.jpg
Date: 1889
In “Media, Penna.” publication, 1889, p. 39: "Residence of J. H. Fronefield, M.D.” 1892 map of Media shows this house, and the greenhouse that appears in the background, behind the house of E. Carey, at N. Jackson and Carbon St.

Field’s house, former schoolhouse

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Date: 1890-1900
See AP-8219 for Fields family. Corner of plate broken. Media 1897: Thomas F. Fields, 8 S. Lemon St. Lived with Margaret Fields, widow Samuel.

Gas Works

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-4084.jpg
Date: 1890-1900
Exterior of the building, with workmen around door. Sign on door reads: "No admittance except on business."

Gayley house

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-4085.jpg
Date: 1889
In “Media, Penna.” publication, 1889, p. 55, described as “Swithin C. Shortlidge’s Academy Annex”

Rev. Griffith, wet plate

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Address: Not Known
Date: 1880 (circa)
Probably Rev. T. M. Griffith, listed as pastor of the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1885 Media Directory. “Wet plate” refers to the photographic process used to capture the image.

Holl's children

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-4087-1.jpg
Location: Media (Pa.)
Date: 1900 (circa)
Same little girl as in AP-4093. Older girl pushing Helen Holl in baby carriage.

Holl’s children

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-4087-2.jpg
Location: Media (Pa.)
Date: 1900 (circa)
Same little girl as in AP-4093

Holl’s children

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-4087-3.jpg
Location: Media (Pa.)
Date: 1900 (circa)
Same little girl as in AP-4093

Haverford Friends Meeting

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-4088.jpg
Date: 1898 (circa)
Photograph used in the book Twice Adopted, by "En Quad" [Thomas R. Vernon]. Media, Pa.: Cooper & Vernon, Publishers, 1898, facing page 161. This novel tells the story of two adopted children in Media who grow up to get married, and uses many real…

Ellwood Haddock, at forge

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Address: Not Known
Date: 1890 (circa)
Deborah Appleton's brother. He became a minister, but here is working at a blacksmith's forge.

Hawley Store, Interior

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Date: 1900 (circa)
This later became Snowden's Inc. Possibly Henry C. Snowden (born 1838) behind counter (although this does not look like the picture at Findagrave.com), or Samuel W. Hawley (1840-1905)

Appleton home, 1896

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-4090-1.jpg
Date: 1896
Also shows 339 W. State St.. Harry Appleton, the photographer's son, is on the porch.

Martha P. Horne, grandmother, copy

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-4091.jpg
Date: 1880 (circa)
The photographer's grandmother. Copy is from a daguerreotype.

Haddock house, Marple

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-4092.jpg
Date: 1898
Possibly childhood home of Deborah Haddock Appleton, the photographer's wife.

Helen Holl

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-4093.jpg
Location: Appleton Studio
Date: 1900 (circa)
Same girls as in AP-4087