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057. Mouth of Chester Creek.

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-18225.jpg
Location: Chester (Pa.)
Date: 1950-1955
Slide marked "Duplicate." No identification. The mouth of Chester Creek at the Delaware River, viewed from 2nd Street. Thanks to Ted Xaras for identifying this location.

131. Alley

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-18065.jpg
Location: Chester (Pa.)
Date: 1954 (circa)
Probably in Chester, Pa.

583. Parking. Bethel Court Redevelopment, 3rd and Market, Chester

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-18142.jpg
Location: Chester (Pa.)
Date: 1955-08
Scott Paper is in the background; the water tower resembles a roll of "Soft Weve" toilet tissue. Market Street is now Avenue of the States. Third street no longer intersects this street. Location uncertain.

584. Shopping. 300 block Market St., Chester

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-18143.jpg
Location: Chester (Pa.)
Date: 1955-08
Market Street is now Avenue of the States. Third street no longer intersects this street. Location uncertain.

586. Chester municipal lot, near P.R.R., west of business district

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-18145.jpg
Location: Chester (Pa.)
Date: 1955-08
Sign reads: "Shop in Chester. 10 cents for 3 hours." Exact location uncertain.

590. William Penn Homes, Chester

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-18148.jpg
Location: Chester (Pa.)
Date: 1955-08
Exact location uncertain

596. Row, 1954. Concord Park on Bethel Road, Chester

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-18151.jpg
Location: Chester (Pa.)
Date: 1955-08
Exact location uncertain. Perhaps Peoples St. or Coples St.

597. Row, 1954. Rear, Bethel Road, Concord Park, Chester

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-18152.jpg
Location: Chester (Pa.)
Date: 1955-08
Exact location uncertain. Perhaps Peoples St. or Coples St.

Aerial view of Chester, Pa.

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-18015.jpg
Location: Chester (Pa.)
Date: 1935-1945
The view shows Chester Creek and part of Chester's waterfront on the Delaware River. Edgmont Avenue is the diagonal street in the middle of the photo.

Aerial view of Chester, Pa. and vicinity.

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-18032.jpg
Location: Chester (Pa.)
Date: 1935-1945
View looking north from Chester, with Media and Swarthmore in the distance.

Aerial view of Chester, Pa. waterfront

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-18028.jpg
Location: Chester (Pa.)
Date: 1935-1945

Aerial view of Chester, Pa. waterfront

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-18029.jpg
Location: Chester (Pa.)
Date: 1935-1945

Aerial view of Chester, Pa. waterfront

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-18030.jpg
Location: Chester (Pa.)
Date: 1935-1945

Aerial view of Chester, Pa. waterfront

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-18031.jpg
Location: Chester (Pa.)
Date: 1935-1945

Aerial view of Pennsylvania Military College

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-18001.jpg
Location: Chester (Pa.)
Date: 1935-1945
PMC is now Widener University. This view is looking north over building known as Old Main.

Aerial view of Pennsylvania Military College and Chester, Pa.

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-18012.jpg
Location: Chester (Pa.)
Date: 1935-1945
View looking northwest showing Old Main building at PMC (now Widener University) and Chester, Pa. and vicinity.

Chester Sugar Refining

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5244.jpg
Date: 1895-1900
Sign on building: “For sale, wharves and buildings. Apply to Samuel Lyons, Market Square.” Avenue of the States was formerly called Market St.

Chester, Pa.

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-14009C.jpg
Location: Chester (Pa.)
Date: 1912
One of four cyanotypes. Exact location not noted.

Commodore Barry Bridge

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-14010E.jpg
Location: Chester (Pa.)
Date: 1974-02
Bridge over the Delaware River between Bridgeport, New Jersey and Chester, Pennsylvania, completed in 1974. With negatives. See “Delaware County Today, 1975-50th Edition” (in MHAC Collection), pages 9-12, for more photos of the bridge.

Commodore Barry Bridge

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-14010F.jpg
Location: Chester (Pa.)
Date: 1974-02
Bridge over the Delaware River between Bridgeport, New Jersey and Chester, Pennsylvania, completed in 1974. With negatives. See “Delaware County Today, 1975-50th Edition” (in MHAC Collection), pages 9-12, for more photos of the bridge.

Commodore Barry Bridge

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-14010G.jpg
Location: Chester (Pa.)
Date: 1974-02
Bridge over the Delaware River between Bridgeport, New Jersey and Chester, Pennsylvania, completed in 1974. With negatives. See “Delaware County Today, 1975-50th Edition” (in MHAC Collection), pages 9-12, for more photos of the bridge.

Commodore Barry Bridge under construction

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-14010A.jpg
Location: Chester (Pa.)
Date: 1973-03
Bridge over the Delaware River between Bridgeport, New Jersey and Chester, Pennsylvania, completed in 1974. With negatives. See “Delaware County Today, 1975-50th Edition” (in MHAC Collection), pages 9-12, for more photos of the bridge.

Commodore Barry Bridge under construction

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-14010B.jpg
Location: Chester (Pa.)
Date: 1973-03
Bridge over the Delaware River between Bridgeport, New Jersey and Chester, Pennsylvania, completed in 1974. With negatives. See “Delaware County Today, 1975-50th Edition” (in MHAC Collection), pages 9-12, for more photos of the bridge.

Commodore Barry Bridge under construction

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-14010D.jpg
Location: Chester (Pa.)
Date: 1973-03
Bridge over the Delaware River between Bridgeport, New Jersey and Chester, Pennsylvania, completed in 1974. With negatives. See “Delaware County Today, 1975-50th Edition” (in MHAC Collection), pages 9-12, for more photos of the bridge.

Commodore Barry Bridge under construction, with Chester (Pa.) to Bridgeport (N.J.) ferry

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-14010C.jpg
Location: Chester (Pa.)
Date: 1973-03
Bridge over the Delaware River between Bridgeport, New Jersey and Chester, Pennsylvania, completed in 1974. With negatives. See “Delaware County Today, 1975-50th Edition” (in MHAC Collection), pages 9-12, for more photos of the bridge.