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  • Collection: Stephen H. Appleton Photograph Collection
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Media high railroad bridge, top

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-8068.jpg
Date: 1900 (circa)
Looking northwest; shows Elwyn Institute buildings in distance

Media High School Class of 1898

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-8101-2.jpg
Date: 1898
Albert W. Appleton, the photographer's son, is in center, rear. According to an account in the Philadelphia Times on June 27, 1898, the other graduates were: Cora Adele Jobson, Marion E. Abel, Elizabeth Miller McDowell, Mamie J. Lobb, Mary E.…

Media High School Class of 1898.

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-8101-1.jpg
Date: 1898
Albert W. Appleton, the photographer's son, is in center, rear. According to an account in the Philadelphia Times on June 27, 1898, the other graduates were: Cora Adele Jobson, Marion E. Abel, Elizabeth Miller McDowell, Mamie J. Lobb, Mary E.…

Media High School students

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-9058.jpg
Date: 1900-1909
Probably graduates of Media High School. Photographed at same location as AP-8101-1, which shows the MHS Class of 1898.

Media Ice Plant, interior

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5193.jpg
Address: Not Known
Date: 1893-1900

Media Ledger building

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5782.jpg
Date: 1898 (circa)
Photographed from upper window of Media Borough Hall

Media Ledger building, State and Jackson

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5131.jpg
Date: 1895-1900
View taken looking from above and across the intersection from a window in the old Borough Hall.

Media Orthodox Friends Meeting, 3rd and North Ave.

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-4132-1.jpg
Date: 1889-01-01
This complex now includes Media-Providence Friends School. North Avenue no longer exists.

Media Orthodox Friends Meeting, 3rd and North Ave.

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-4132-2.jpg
Date: 1889-01-01
This complex now includes Media-Providence Friends School. North Avenue no longer exists.

Media police

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5087.jpg
Location: Media (Pa.)
Date: 1891-09-21
Chief of police flanked by four officers, including one whom is African-American. Names, according to Frank Lees, in From Media's Past (45), are Hoopes, Rodenboh [probably Rodenbaugh], Chief McKniff, Sherlock, and Turner. Lees says the picture was…

Media Post Office, interior. State and Plum, ca. 1905

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5104.jpg
Date: 1905 (circa)
Furnishings "Designed and manufactured by the I. B. Williams Co., Seward, Nebraska"

Media railroad bridge, perspective

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-4131.jpg
Date: 1890-1900
Looking from trestle over Ridley Creek toward Elwyn Institute, in distance

Media railroad cut

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-4162.jpg
Date: 1890-1900
Locomotive is puffing a cloud of smoke.

Media railroad station

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-4113.jpg
Date: 1889 (circa)
Used in “Media, Penna.” publication, 1889, p. 42

Media railroad station

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-4163.jpg
Date: 1890-1900
Locomotive is puffing a cloud of smoke.

Media Republican Club, and office of Dr. S. A. Beal

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5203-1.jpg
Date: 1895-1900
Buildings still standing as of 2018