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  • Collection: Stephen H. Appleton Photograph Collection
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Rigby, white wagon with horse and man

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5271-1.jpg
Date: 1895-1900
In front of business of W. C. Rigby Funeral Director, Arterial Embalmer

Rigby, white wagon with horse and two men

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5271-2.jpg
Date: 1895-1900
In front of business of W. C. Rigby Funeral Director, Arterial Embalmer

Rorer’s store

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/AP-5201-2.jpg
Date: 1895-1900
Photo includes other buildings on either side of the store, at the southeast corner of Baltimore Pike and Orange St. Similar to and probably used as basis for engraving in “Media, Penna.” publication, 1889, p. 29. All the buildings in this photograph…

Burdsall & Adams, cigar manufacturer

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/AP-5202-2.jpg
Date: 1895-1901
Similar to photograph in “Media, Penna.” publication, 1889, p. 36

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.

Charter House, front

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5270.jpg
Date: 1896
With two large willow trees in full leaf.

Harry Appleton, about 13

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-4002.jpg
Location: Appleton Studio
Date: 1896 (circa)
The photographer's son.

Brooklyn cruiser

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-4041-1.jpg
Date: 1896 (circa)
United States Navy armored cruiser, launched Oct. 2, 1895 from the Cramp Shipyard in Philadelphia. This could be the day it was launched. Crowd on board, under tent. Other sailing ships and steamboats on river, including "Sylvan Dell." Probably in…

Brooklyn cruiser

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-4041-2.jpg
Date: 1896 (circa)
United States Navy armored cruiser, launched Oct. 2, 1895 from the Cramp Shipyard in Philadelphia. Probably in the Delaware River between Philadelphia and Chester. This picture seems to have been taken at another time than AP-4041-1.

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.

Brooklyn cruiser

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5178.jpg
Date: 1896 (circa)
United States Navy armored cruiser, launched Oct. 2, 1895 from the Cramp Shipyard in Philadelphia. Probably in the Delaware River between Philadelphia and Chester.

Brooklyn cruiser

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5178-1.jpg
Date: 1896 (circa)
United States Navy armored cruiser, launched Oct. 2, 1895 from the Cramp Shipyard in Philadelphia

Trolley mail car between 5th and 6th on Olive St.

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5035.jpg
Date: 1896-03-02
Chester Traction Co. trolley car bedecked with bunting and banner reading: Chester Media U.S. Mail. Conductor and operator standing at either end of car. According to an article in The Philadelphia Times, March 3, 1896, this service was inaugurated…

Trolley mail car between 5th and 6th on Olive St.

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5035-1.jpg
Date: 1896-03-03
Chester Traction Co. trolley car bedecked with bunting and banner reading: Chester Media U.S. Mail. Conductor and operator standing at either end of car. According to an article in The Philadelphia Times, March 3, 1896, this service was inaugurated…

William H. Wood, engineering drawing, 15 ton hydraulic jib crane

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-9006.jpg
Location: Media (Pa.)
Date: 1896-06
The Media Directory for 1897 lists William H. Wood, civil engineer, 10 South Ave., h 514 S. Orange. Plate photographed on light box, not scanned.

Sue Appleton, asleep, small, copy

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-4180.jpg
Location: Media (Pa.)
Date: 1896-11-16
The photographer's daughter.

Sue Appleton, one week

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-4189.jpg
Date: 1896-11-16
The photographer's daughter.

Sue Appleton, one week

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-4189-1.jpg
Location: Media (Pa.)
Date: 1896-11-16
The photographer's daughter. Masking paint hides same woman as in AP-4185. This photo is clearly the same say as that one, though the dates in the index differ by a week.

Miss May (or Mary) Curtis

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-4058.jpg
Location: Appleton Studio
Date: 1896-11-20

Sue Appleton, in Miss? Megs? Curtis' lap

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-4185.jpg
Date: 1896-11-23
The photographer's daughter.

Deborah F. Appleton with her baby daughter, Sue Appleton

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-4005-1.jpg
Location: Appleton Studio
Date: 1897
The photographer's wife and daughter.

Deborah F. Appleton with her baby daughter, Sue Appleton

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-4005-2.jpg
Location: Appleton Studio
Date: 1897
The photographer's wife and daughter.