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  • Collection: Stephen H. Appleton Photograph Collection
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Charles Realey, as a baby, at Sue Appleton’s Christmas tree

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5303-1.jpg
Location: Media (Pa.)
Date: 1900-12-28
The photographer's nephew. This is not the same tree as in AP-5303, though it is supposed to be the Appleton tree. Either the date or the location are wrong.

Tyrens, Charles, and horse

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5304.jpg
Date: 1900-1905
Old man at the reins with boy seated next to him, in front of unidentified house, probably in Media, perhaps on Monroe Street?

Elm Avenue, Swarthmore, Pa., near Maple Avenue

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-8004-25.jpg
Date: 1900-1905
Location is approximate. This might be a legal photograph documenting property damages caused by lowering the grade of Elm Avenue. Sign posted on tree reads: For Sale, E. C. Walton, Swarthmore, PA.

Elm Avenue, Swarthmore, Pa., near Maple Avenue

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-8008-5.jpg
Date: 1900-1905
Location is approximate. This might be a legal photograph documenting damages from a change of grade in Elm Avenue.

Elm Avenue, Swarthmore, Pa., near Maple Avenue

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-8011-5.jpg
Date: 1900-1905
Location is approximate. This might be a legal photograph documenting damages from a change of grade in Elm Avenue. Workmen and horse and dump cart under Maple Ave. sign.

Elm Avenue, Swarthmore, Pa., near Maple Avenue

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-8012-1.jpg
Date: 1900-1905
Location is approximate. This might be a legal photograph documenting damages from a change of grade in Elm Avenue.

Elm Avenue, Swarthmore, Pa., near Maple Avenue

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-8013-1.jpg
Date: 1900-1905
Location is approximate. This might be a legal photograph documenting damages from a change of grade in Elm Avenue.

Irving grave, with flowers, at Media Cemetery.

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-8128.jpg
Date: 1900-1905
Media Cemetery identified as location from Mary W. Thorn gravestone in background. This grave could be for Henry Baker Irving (died 1900) or Laura E. Irving (died 1903).

Sisters of St. Francis chapel

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-8328.jpg
Date: 1900-1905
Our Lady of Angels Convent chapel, now part of Neumann University. Image obscured by remnants of envelope stuck to emulsion

Fronefield baby

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5747.jpg
Location: Appleton Studio
Date: 1900-1908

Fronefield baby

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5748.jpg
Location: Appleton Studio
Date: 1900-1908

Fronefield baby with nurse

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5749.jpg
Location: Appleton Studio
Date: 1900-1908

Friends of Village View, flowers

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-9064.jpg
Address: Not Known
Date: 1900-1908
Village View was a neighborhood in Upper Providence Township adjacent to Media, Pa.

119-121 E. 6th St., Media, Pa.

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-9072-1.jpg
Date: 1900-1908
Shows 119-121 E. 6th St. [Sixth] House (as of 2018) has been remodeled to have a stucco exterior and more overhang on the roofline, but the shape of the building and details surrounding these pictures confirm the location. Partial view of house…

119-121 E. 6th St., Media, Pa.

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-9072-2.jpg
Date: 1900-1908
Shows 119-121 E. 6th [Sixth] St. House (as of 2018) has been remodeled to have a stucco exterior and more overhang on the roofline, but the shape of the building and details surrounding these pictures confirm the location. Partial view of house shows…

119-121 E. 6th St., Media, Pa.

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-9072-3.jpg
Date: 1900-1908
Shows 119-121 E. 6th St. [Sixth] House (as of 2018) has been remodeled to have a stucco exterior and more overhang on the roofline, but the shape of the building and details surrounding these pictures confirm the location. Partial view of house shows…

119-121 E. 6th St., Media, Pa.

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-9072-4.jpg
Date: 1900-1908
Shows 119-121 E. 6th St. [Sixth] House (as of 2018) has been remodeled to have a stucco exterior and more overhang on the roofline, but the shape of the building and details surrounding these pictures confirm the location. Partial view of house shows…

Ivy-covered ruins

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-9076.jpg
Address: Not Known
Date: 1900-1908
Looks to have once been a large factory or mill building. Possibly related to Ivy Mills; see AP-5062.

Unknown Property 1

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-9078-1.jpg
Address: Not Known
Date: 1900-1908
Woods with mown area inside metal fence.

Unknown Property 1

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-9078-2.jpg
Address: Not Known
Date: 1900-1908
Woods with small outbuilding in distance

Unknown Property 1

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-9078-3.jpg
Address: Not Known
Date: 1900-1908
Woods with small outbuilding in foreground

Unknown road and trolley tracks

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-9079-1.jpg
Address: Not Known
Date: 1900-1908
Possibly photographed for a legal case involving a trolley accident. Tracks possibly leading to Chester; see AP-9079-5, with many smokestacks on horizon.