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  • Collection: Stephen H. Appleton Photograph Collection
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Idlewild Cottage, west end

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5174-1.jpg
Date: 1897 (circa)
Designed by Frank Furness. Potted plants on porch and in yard.

Idlewild Cottage, west end

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5174-2.jpg
Date: 1897 (circa)
Designed by Frank Furness. Potted plants on porch and in yard.

Charter House office

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5175.jpg
Date: 1895-1900
Shows furnishings, lamps, clock, artwork on wall, potted plants

Charter House stairway

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5176.jpg
Date: 1895-1900
Shows furnishings, lamps, carpeting, artwork on wall, potted plants

Sharpless barn

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5177.jpg
Address: Not Known
Date: 1889 (circa)
John Sharpless was murdered in the stable on his farm in 1885. he case dragged on until 1889, and was the most sensational in Delaware County history up to that point. These may be Appleton's retrospective photos of the scene of the crime. Shows…

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

Patterson patent farm machinery, “Deering Ideal”

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5178-2.jpg
Date: 1895-1900
Label on machine reads: Patterson Oats Swather. Man'f'd by A. P. Patterson, Lansdowne, Del. Co., Pa. Patented June 16, 94, May 3, 97.

Patterson patent farm machinery, “Deering Ideal”

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5178-3.jpg
Date: 1895-1900
Same machine as pictured in AP-5178-3.

Burmont railroad bridge, under construction or repair

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5179.jpg
Date: 1895-1900
This is the bridge over Darby Creek, on the Media train line. What is now called Gladstone station was then called Burmont station.

Burmont railroad bridge, under construction or repair

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5180.jpg
Date: 1895-1900
This is the bridge over Darby Creek, on the Media train line. What is now called Gladstone station was then called Burmont station, which appears in the background.

Rogers' grave, with flowers and boy in sailor's suit at grave, in Media Cemetery.

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5181-1.jpg
Date: 1895-1900
Entrance off N. Orange St., between Kirk La. and Rose Tree Rd. See also AP-5064. The Smedley family intermarried with the Rogers family. This is probably the grave of Ellen Jane Smedley Rogers who died 18 Oct 1899.

Rogers' grave etc. with flowers, at Media Cemetery.

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5181-2.jpg
Date: 1895-1900
Entrance off N. Orange St., between Kirk La. and Rose Tree Rd. See also AP-5064. The Smedley family intermarried with the Rogers family. This is probably the grave of Ellen Jane Smedley Rogers who died 18 Oct 1899.

Helen Rigby, deceased

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5182-1.jpg
Address: Not Known
Date: 1898-04

Riddle's mills

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5183-2.jpg
Date: 1894
According to Henry S. Pearson, in Middletown Township, Delaware County, Pa. (1985), p. 120, this was originally a nail mill that Samuel Riddle converted to a textile mill after purchasing it in 1875. As late as 1983, the mill was occupied b the…

D. B. Williamson, standing in front of Patterson patent farm machinery

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5184.jpg
Location: Media (Pa.)
Date: 1895-1900
Probably Davis B. Williamson. See also AP-8355 and AP-5178.

Frank with horse

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5187.jpg
Address: Not Known
Date: 1895-1900

Harry Appleton, double pictures

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5189-1.jpg
Location: Media (Pa.)
Date: 1893 (circa)
Two pictures of the photographer's son on one negative. Also shows pot belly stove.

Harry Appleton, double pictures

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5189-2.jpg
Location: Media (Pa.)
Date: 1893 (circa)
Two pictures of the photographer's son on one negative.

Elizabeth Patchell

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5190-3.jpg
Date: 1893-1900

Delaware County Institute of Science hall

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5191.jpg
Date: 1893-1900
The Media Title and Trust Co. occupied one floor of the building.