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- Collection: Stephen H. Appleton Photograph Collection
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Old House, combination. Media’s Original farmhouses: Dr. Joseph. Rowland, James Esrey, Elizabeth Way, and John Hill.
Location: Media (Pa.)
Date: 1895-1900
Used in Semi-centennial booklet, composite of negatives AP-4152, AP-4169, AP-4243, and AP-4049
Burmont railroad bridge, old?
Location: Clifton Heights (Pa.)
Date: 1895-1900
This may be the bridge before the repairs or reconstruction shown in AP-5179 and AP-5180.
Rev. W. R. Patton
Location: Delaware County (Pa.)
Date: 1895-1900
William R. Patton was pastor of the First Baptist Church in Media. Portrait was taken at Lothrop, 64 N. Ninth St., Philadelphia. This is a copy of a photograph.
Crook’s house
Date: 1895-1900
Henry Pearson, in Middletown Township, Delaware County, Pa. (295), writes that the Pratt/Crooks house stood opposite Cumberland Cemetery on Middletown Road (Route 352).
Vernon house
Address: Not Known
Date: 1895-1900
See AP-5133 and AP-5251. This may be the Vernon Farm, in Upper Providence Township, referred to in several newspaper notes. Family posed on porch, with women playing banjo and guitar, and pets sprawled on the lawn..
Fairmount Dam
Date: 1895-1900
This view, of the Fairmount Dam and Water Works and the Callowhill St. Bridge, was taken from a boathouse ramp above the dam on the Schuylkill River. Two steamboats are moored above dam, and the roof of a bathing pavilion is visible below dam. Sewer…
Rowland house or Vernon house
Address: Not Known
Date: 1895-1900
A flower bed is in the foreground, with a vine-covered porch on the house. Appleton initialed this in the lower left corner.
Broomall's Dam
Address: 403-501 W. 3rd St., Media (Pa.)
Date: 1895-1900
Formerly Media Swimming and Rowing Club, now Broomall's Lake Country Club
Carey’s night blooming cereus
Date: 1895-1900
1893 map of Media shows that E. Carey had a greenhouse behind his house at N. Jackson and Carbon St. so it is likely that this picture was taken at that location.
Chester Sugar Refining
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.
Carey’s cactus
Date: 1895-1900
1892 map of Media shows that E. Carey had a greenhouse behind his house at N. Jackson and Carbon St. so it is likely that this picture was taken at that location.
Shoemakerville Hill
Date: 1895-1900
This hill and bridge are on Providence Road or Route 320, as it crosses Ridley Creek, which is the border between Chester and Nether Providence Township, Pa. See AP-5132-1 for same view taken same day.
Thomas Rufus Vernon, Sr.
Location: Appleton Studio
Date: 1895-1900
Full name from an application for Sons of the American Revolution found on findagrave.com 77996897, which gives detailed information about several generations of the Vernon family.
Vernon house, with D. A. Vernon and horse
Address: Not Known
Date: 1895-1900
Appleton's index entry is hard to decipher, but this man is definitely not D. A. Vernon, who died in 1888; this is probably D. A. Vernon's horse. Same residence and same day as in AP-5133 and AP-5230. Possibly in Upper Providence.