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  • Collection: Stephen H. Appleton Photograph Collection
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Swarthmore railroad station, shelter shed, rear

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-8105.jpg
Date: 1900 (circa)

Delaware County Court House

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-8106.jpg
Date: 1900 (circa)
Used in combination view that is frontispiece in Media Semi-Centennial booklet, 1900

First Baptist Church, west view

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-8107.jpg
Date: 1900 (circa)

Edgar A. Wilkinson, copy

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-8108.jpg
Date: 1900 (circa)
Media 1902 directory lists Sallie E. Wilkinson, Widow, Edgar E., Boarding 6 W. Front. Sallie (Sarah) was Deborah Appleton's sister.

Newtown Telephone Station

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-8109.jpg
Address: Not Known
Date: 1900 (circa)
Date stone on building reads 1897. Sign on striped barber pole reads: To V. E. Dewees, Barber.

Young flowers

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-8115.jpg
Address: Not Known
Date: 1900 (circa)
Flowers spell "Sister". Deceased person in coffin.

Elkview railroad bridge, Painters at

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-8119.jpg
Date: 1900 (circa)
Includes farm landscape behind the workmen.

Chadd’s Ford case

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-8122-67.jpg
Date: 1900 (circa)
This photography taken in support of a legal case at this location.

Chadd’s Ford case

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-8122-75.jpg
Date: 1900 (circa)
This photography taken in support of a legal case at this location.

Alfred and Harry Appleton in field

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/AP-5219.jpg
Date: 1900 (circa)
Exact location not known; probably somewhere near Media

Sue Appleton, washing

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/AP-5285.jpg
Date: 1900 (circa)
The photographer's daughter.

Grocery wagon, T. C. Rorer & Co, Grocers, Media, Pa.

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/AP-5812-1.jpg
Location: Media (Pa.)
Date: 1900 (circa)

Grocery wagon, T. C. Rorer & Co, Grocers, Media, Pa.

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/AP-5812-2.jpg
Location: Media (Pa.)
Date: 1900 (circa)

Brooke Hall

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5071-1.jpg
Date: 1900-03-24

Brooke Hall

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5071-2.jpg
Date: 1900-03-24

Pay railroad car

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5048.jpg
Address: Not Known
Date: 1900-05-15
Not sure if this means this car was rented, "for pay," by this festive, well dressed group of young adults, or if this is the car which carried pay for employees. One passenger car, marked P.W. & B. R.R. and Pennsylvania, pulled by a locomotive.

A. V. Dee, residence, 4th and Monroe, Media

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-8088.jpg
Date: 1900-06-02
Media 1897 Directory lists Arthur V. Dee, Salesman, house at 27 E. 4th St. Many potted plants on porch

Brinton’s railroad trestle

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-8012.jpg
Address: Not Known
Date: 1900-06-15
Probably near Concordville. Wooden railroad trestle.

Sue Appleton, with little coach or baby carriage, with doll

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-4188.jpg
Date: 1900-07-15
The photographer's daughter.

Slap boy

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-4206.jpg
Date: 1900-07-15
Barefoot African-American boy. Probably in Appleton's backyard; same arbor as in AP-4001.

Burmont railroad bridge, diagonal

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-8014.jpg
Date: 1900-08-09
Plate broken in several pieces and badly taped, scanned through mylar without cleaning. This is the bridge over Darby Creek, on the Media train line. What is now Gladstone station was then called Burmont station.

Burmont railroad bridge, top view

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-8015.jpg
Date: 1900-08-09
This is the bridge over Darby Creek, on the Media train line. What is now Gladstone station was then called Burmont station, which is visible in background.

Sue Appleton, at little store

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-4186.jpg
Date: 1900-08-10
The photographer's daughter.

General Charles Lewis Leiper, cemetery monument

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-8079.jpg
Date: 1900-09-28
Monument dedicated May 27, 1900 in the Middletown Presbyterian Church cemetery

Sue Appleton's Christmas tree

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5303.jpg
Date: 1900-12-28
The photographer's daughter at the family's Christmas tree.