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  • Collection: Stephen H. Appleton Photograph Collection
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Tidewater Steel Co., with railroad engine

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-8242.jpg
Date: 1902 (circa)
Photograph may have been taken to support a legal case related to this location.

Tidewater Steel Co., railroad racks

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-8243.jpg
Date: 1902 (circa)
Photograph may have been taken to support a legal case related to this location.

First National Bank

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-8244.jpg
Date: 1902 (circa)
Also shows neighboring buildings on State St. and South Ave.

Mr. Scott’s fireplace, copy

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-8253.jpg
Address: Not Known
Date: 1902 (circa)

Stark Cottage, Secane

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-8254.jpg
Address: Secane (Pa.)
Date: 1902 (circa)
This may also be called Primrose Cottage.

Edgmont Road, north view, best

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-8261.jpg
Date: 1902 (circa)
Photography probably taken in support of a legal case related to an accident at this location. Farm buildings, fields, and houses in valley at bottom of road.

Edgmont Road, south

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-8262.jpg
Date: 1902 (circa)
Photography probably taken in support of a legal case related to an accident at this location.

Melody Accident Case, short view

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-8263.jpg
Date: 1902 (circa)
Peter Melody, driving a horse and wagon on Ninth Street in Chester on Nov. 26, 1901, was struck by a trolley car; he and the horse were both killed. Appleton photographed this scene as part of the legal case related to this accident.

Melody Accident Case, long view

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-8264.jpg
Date: 1902 (circa)
Peter Melody, driving a horse and wagon on Ninth Street in Chester on Nov. 26, 1901, was struck by a trolley car; he and the horse were both killed. Appleton photographed this scene as part of the legal case related to this accident.

Wilde Guard Post. No. 25, G.A.R., Grand Army of the Republic

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-8265.jpg
Address: Not Known
Date: 1902 (circa)
This shows a gathering of Civil War veterans, probably on State Street in Media.

Wilde Guard Post. No. 25, G.A.R., Grand Army of the Republic

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-8266.jpg
Address: Not Known
Date: 1902 (circa)
This shows a gathering of Civil War veterans, probably oin Media. One of the houses is number 11.

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.

Media Fire Company

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-8275.jpg
Date: 1902 (circa)
Two horse-drawn fire wagons photographed on the State St. side of Borough Hall, which housed the fire company in the first floor.

Samuel P. Ottey, butcher wagon

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-8279.jpg
Address: Not Known
Date: 1902 (circa)

Mendenhall children

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-8280.jpg
Date: 1902 (circa)

Circus posters pasted on fence

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-8281.jpg
Address: Not Known
Date: 1902 (circa)
Two posters have "Media" pasted on top of the Saturday.

Wawa E. railroad bridge, west view

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-8292.jpg
Date: 1902 (circa)
Location is approximate. Bridge crossed Chester Creek; station stood south of Baltimore Pike near Station Rd. in Chester Heights, Pa.

Wawa E. railroad bridge, east

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-8293.jpg
Date: 1902 (circa)
Location is approximate. Bridge crossed Chester Creek; station stood south of Baltimore Pike near Station Rd. in Chester Heights, Pa.

Media Fire Company engine

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-8294.jpg
Date: 1902 (circa)
Engines is photographed on Jackson Street side of Media Ledger building at 2 W. Jackson St.

William H. Wood, engineering drawing, hydraulic manhole punch

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-9005.jpg
Location: Media (Pa.)
Date: 1902 (circa)
The Media Directory for 1897 lists William H. Wood, civil engineer, 10 South Ave., h 514 S. Orange. Plate photographed on light box, not scanned.

Sue and Charles Realey

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/AP-5345.jpg
Location: Appleton Studio
Date: 1902 (circa)
The photographer's nephew and sister-in-law.

Darlington lawyers group

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-8385-1.jpg
Date: 1902 ca.
Probably George E. Darlington's lawyers group; possibly photographed on Darlington's property on N. Providence Rd. in Media. See Also AP-8385-2 and AP-8385-3. MHAC also has several vintage prints of these photos, one of which dated it as "about…

Darlington lawyers group

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-8385-2.jpg
Date: 1902 ca.
Probably George E. Darlington's lawyers group; possibly photographed on Darlington's property on N. Providence Rd. in Media. See Also AP-8385-1 and AP-8385-3. MHAC also has several vintage prints of these photos, one of which dated it as "about…

Darlington lawyers group

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-8385-3.jpg
Date: 1902 ca.
Probably George E. Darlington's lawyers group; possibly photographed on Darlington's property on N. Providence Rd. in Media. See Also AP-8385-1 and AP-8385-2. MHAC also has several vintage prints of these photos, one of which dated it as "about…

Charles Realey

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5312.jpg
Location: Appleton Studio
Date: 1902-01-06
The photographer's nephew. Oval mask over negative