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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.

Idlewild waiters

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-8383-1.jpg
Date: 1906-1907
15 African American men, possibly posed on porch of Idlewild Hotel. See also AP_8383-2.

Idlewild waiters

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-8383-2.jpg
Date: 1906-1907
16 African American men, possibly posed on porch of Idlewild Hotel. Several men blurry in this picture. See also AP-8383-1.

Indiana, battleship

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-4103-1.jpg
Date: 1895 (circa)
Built at Cramp Shipyard in Philadelphia and commissioned in 1895. This picture may be from the commissioning celebration, judging from the number of civilians on ship and the awning at the stern. Probably in the Delaware River between Philadelphia…

Indiana, battleship

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-4103-2.jpg
Date: 1895 (circa)
Built at Cramp Shipyard in Philadelphia and commissioned in 1895. This picture may be from the commissioning celebration, judging from the number of civilians on ship and the awning at the stern. Probably in the Delaware River between Philadelphia…

Injured leg

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-8274.jpg
Address: Not Known
Date: 1902 (circa)
Photograph may have been taken to support a legal case related to this injury.

Interior room view 1

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-9080.jpg
Address: Not Known
Date: 1900-1908
Possibly Charter House room; or interior of some other house.

Interior room view 2

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-9081.jpg
Address: Not Known
Date: 1900-1908
Possibly a crime scene.

Interior room view 2

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-9082.jpg
Address: Not Known
Date: 1900-1908
Possibly a crime scene.

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).

Isaac L. Miller and children

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5620.jpg
Location: Appleton Studio
Date: 1905 (circa)

Isaac L. Miller residence

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-4119.jpg
Date: 1889
Used in “Media, Penna.” publication, 1889, p.14. The house was on the northeast corner of Front and Olive. The property is now (2018) a parking lot. 1892 map identifies this lot, between Plum and Olive, as 23-37 W. Front St. Frank Lees, in his…

Isaac Miller and baby

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5388-1.jpg
Location: Appleton Studio
Date: 1903 (circa)

Isaac Miller and baby

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5777.jpg
Location: Appleton Studio
Date: 1909

Isaac Miller and baby

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5777-1.jpg
Location: Appleton Studio
Date: 1909 (circa)

Isaac Miller, trees

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-8371-5.jpg
Date: 1906-1907
Looking west from Plum St. along Front St.

Isaac Miller, trees

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-8371-75.jpg
Date: 1906-1907
Miller house at the northeast corner of W. Front St. and N. Olive St.

Ivy Mills

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5062.jpg
Date: 1890-1900
A few walls of this 1829 factory, in ruins even when Appleton photographed it, still stand (2018) as part of the Ivy Mills National Historic District, in Concord Township. The ruins of the former paper mill, built by the Willcox family, are located…

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.

J. B. Robinson's boy, copy

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5310-1.jpg
Date: 1901-10-24
Boy wearing sailor's suit. Original photo from Gutekunst, 712 Arch St., Philadelphia