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- Collection: Stephen H. Appleton Photograph Collection
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Media Borough Hall
Date: 1893-1900
This building was torn down as part of an urban renewal project in Media, in the late 1960s. Media Fire Hook & Ladder Co. No. 1 occupied the first floor of the building.
Blizzard, Feb. 1899
Address: 341 W. State St., Media (Pa.)
Date: 1899-02
Looking east from Appleton house at 341 W. State St.
Matheus Grave, with floral decorations, 1895
Address: Not Known
Date: 1895
Fresh grave, with floral decoration reading 'Baby" - appears to be in open field, not in public cemetery
Griscom, children and goat
Location: Delaware County (Pa.)
Date: 1895-1900
Appleton, in his index, misidentified this dog as a goat.
Rorer’s store
Address: 201 S. Orange St., Media (Pa.)
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
Address: 106 W. State St., Media (Pa.)
Date: 1895-1900
Similar to photograph in “Media, Penna.” publication, 1889, p. 35
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
Media Ledger building and P. W. Ware Plumbing
Address: 2 W. State St., Media (Pa.)
Date: 1898 (circa)
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.
Media Fire Company No. 1, fire hose carriage, old
Address: 16 West State St., Media (Pa.)
Date: 1892 (circa)
Original post office, located at Plum and State, is on right. Highbarger & Lynch Furniture, "on State St. near Plum," on left. Modern prints in Photo Folder 7053, captioned by Frank Lees: “Media’s first fire house and first piece of fire equipment is…
T. Elwood Allison residence
Date: 1900
Originally called Cony Meade or Conny Meade, this 40-room mansion was later known as "the Castle." It burned in 1981.
