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  • Collection: I. Frank Lees Photograph Collection
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Victoria Plush Mill

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-10003J1.jpg
Date: 1906-03
Caption: Taken in March 1906 from south of Mill from field of V. P. M. [Victoria Plush Mills].

Media Free Library

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-12024A.jpg
Date: 1907

Media Free Library

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-12024B.jpg
Date: 1907

Media Borough Hall

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-01268.jpg
Date: 1907 (circa)

Panama Canal Zone, Ancon

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-16003.jpg
Date: 1907 (circa)
One of a series of photographs of Panama Canal construction and scenery by W. R. Newbold, Jr., of Media. Original caption: Quarters, Ancon. WRN, Jr. Very comfortable.

Panama Canal Zone, fishing

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-16004.jpg
Location: Panama
Date: 1907 (circa)
One of a series of photographs of Panama Canal construction and scenery by W. R. Newbold, Jr., of Media. Original caption: We have some good catches with dynamite.

Panama Canal Zone, Tivoli Hotel

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-16005.jpg
Location: Panama (Panama)
Date: 1907 (circa)
One of a series of photographs of Panama Canal construction and scenery by W. R. Newbold, Jr., of Media. Original caption: Tivoli Hotel near Panama City. Grounds much improved of late. This taken on completion, 1907

Panama Canal Zone, sanitary service

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-16006.jpg
Location: Panama
Date: 1907 (circa)
One of a series of photographs of Panama Canal construction and scenery by W. R. Newbold, Jr., of Media. Original caption: Island Service Sanitary Department

Panama Canal Zone, view of buzzards

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-16002.jpg
Location: Panama (Panama)
Date: 1907-04-17
One of a series of photographs of Panama Canal construction and scenery by W. R. Newbold, Jr., of Media. Original caption: Panama City is quite thickly populated. This represents a view from my dining room early morning. They are real buzzards.

Panama Canal Zone, Tivoli Hotel

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-16007.jpg
Location: Panama (Panama)
Date: 1907-11
One of a series of photographs of Panama Canal construction and scenery by W. R. Newbold, Jr., of Media. Original caption: Tivoli [Hotel] while T.R. [Theodore Roosevelt] was here. [TR was actually there in Nov. 1906]

Creek Road, along Ridley Creek, near Moylan, Pa. Bruce, Harvey and Ed.

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-08012A.jpg
Date: 1908
"Red Ink" photo, series by same photographer named for red ink used for writing descriptions on reverse side of similarly-mounted images. Location uncertain. Same as P-08012B, except wider crop.

Creek Road, along Ridley Creek, near Moylan, Pa. Bruce, Harvey and Ed.

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-08012B.jpg
Date: 1908
"Red Ink" photo, series by same photographer named for red ink used for writing descriptions on reverse side of similarly-mounted images. Location uncertain. This photo was entered in The John Wanamaker Exhibition of Photographs by Amateurs, February…

Lovers Lane, Idlewild Woods

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-08019.jpg
Date: 1908
"Red Ink" photo, series by same photographer named for red ink used for writing descriptions on reverse side of similarly-mounted images. This is possibly the lane that one ran on the Park Avenue side of the Idlewild Hotel, which is now unused and is…

Crum Creek (Beatty Hollow)

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-10004A.jpg
Date: 1908
The title and date are from Frank Lee's writing on envelope. The original photograph had no identification on reverse other than an indication of the lens or film used, and a notation: "Taken against the sun." Address is approximate. Probably Dr.…

Purling waters and murmuring pines, Beatty's Hollow.

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-10004B.jpg
Date: 1908
"Red Ink" photo, series by same photographer named for red ink used for writing descriptions on reverse side of similarly-mounted images. This scene is on Crum Creek, near Beatty Road. Address is approximate. This photo was entered in The John…

Lotus Pond, Rose Valley, Pa.

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-11005.jpg
Date: 1908
Red Ink photo, series by same photographer named for red ink used for writing descriptions on reverse side of similarly-mounted images. This photo was entered in The John Wanamaker Exhibition of Photographs by Amateurs, February 1908. See P-11002 for…

Media High School basketball team, 1907-08

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-15016.jpg
Date: 1908
Postcard sent from Media on January 15, 1908 addressed to Mr. Wm. H. Kelly, 1238 Stock Exchange Building, Chicago, Ill.

Ed and Harvey with steam tractor in quarry, Gayley Street and Park Avenue

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-01159.jpg
Date: 1908 (circa)
"Red Ink" photo, series by same photographer named for red ink used for writing descriptions on reverse side of similarly-mounted images. A large apartment complex now sits in the land that was once the quarry.

Idlewild Hotel and Furness Cottage

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-01248B.jpg
Date: 1908 (circa)
"Red Ink" photo, series by same photographer named for red ink used for writing descriptions on reverse side of similarly-mounted images.

Houses at Duffs, Moylan, Pa.

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-08003.jpg
Date: 1908 (circa)
"Red Ink" photo, series by same photographer named for red ink used for writing descriptions on reverse side of similarly-mounted images.

"Shadowland" (Park Avenue), near Media

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-08007.jpg
Date: 1908 (circa)
"Red Ink" photo, series by same photographer named for red ink used for writing descriptions on reverse side of similarly-mounted images. This photo was entered in The John Wanamaker Exhibition of Photographs by Amateurs, February 1908.

Manchester Avenue, Media, Pa.

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-08010.jpg
Date: 1908 (circa)
"Red Ink" photo, series by same photographer named for red ink used for writing descriptions on reverse side of similarly-mounted images. Looking south on Manchester Avenue from about Baltimore Avenue. The East Media School is in the right…

House on Upper [sic] Providence Road

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-08011.jpg
Date: 1908 (circa)
"Red Ink" photo, series by same photographer named for red ink used for writing descriptions on reverse side of similarly-mounted images. This is probably the house (still standing in 2021 but added onto on the north side after the photo was taken),…

Rose Valley near Moylan, Ben Walker and Ed

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-08018A.jpg
Date: 1908 (circa)
"Red Ink" photo, series by same photographer named for red ink used for writing descriptions on reverse side of similarly-mounted images. Photo shows a stream that may be Vernon Run, a Ridley Creek tributary.

Ridley Creek from P.M.S. trolley bridge, looking south, Media, Pa.

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-08018B.jpg
Date: 1908 (circa)
Red Ink photo, series by same photographer named for red ink used for writing descriptions on reverse side of similarly-mounted images. P.M.S. is the Philadelphia, Morton & Swarthmore Street Railway Company. This line did have a bridge in…