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  • Collection: I. Frank Lees Photograph Collection
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Media Centennial Celebration. Borough Day. Evening events on High School field

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Zimmerman/P-19195-39.jpg
Date: 1950-06-09
Patty Highfield, Miss Greater Media, with an unidentified Shriner. Donald G. Shook, owner of the Media News, is seated in the bottom center of the photo.

Media Centennial Celebration. Borough Day. Evening events on High School field

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Zimmerman/P-19195-40.jpg
Date: 1950-06-09
Left to right: Patty Highfield, Miss Greater Media, George Jeffries (with Shriner hat), ad Frank Lees.

Media Centennial Celebration. Borough Day. Evening events on High School field

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Zimmerman/P-19195-41.jpg
Date: 1950-06-09
Left to right, seated behind bunting: Mrs. Crosby L. Smith, Nan Dutton, Walter N. Hagerman (with LuLu Potentate hat), Frederick Brumble, and Patty Highfield, Miss Greater Media. Frank Lees is seated in the lower right corner. Patty married Fred…

Media Centennial Celebration. Firemen's Day. Parade of Delaware County Firemen's Association

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Zimmerman/P-19195-42.jpg
Date: 1950-06-10
Nan Dutton in a Media Fire Company truck in front of judge's reviewing stand at Borough Hall.

Media Centennial Celebration. Firemen's Day. Parade of Delaware County Firemen's Association

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Zimmerman/P-19195-43.jpg
Date: 1950-06-10
Media Fire Company. The group wore new uniforms for the parade.

Smith homestead

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-01012A.jpg
Date: 1870-1880
Part of a series of stereoviews of "Media and its vicinity" by Samuel McMullin, Landscape Photographer, No. 1128 South Sixth Street, Philadelphia. Handwritten note reads: "412 W. State St. Purchased by A. Lewis Smith from Judge John M. Broomall in…

Media High School

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-01434.jpg
Date: 1880 (circa)
Thanks to Sam Lemon for helping identify this former "mystery" photograph. The image appears, as an engraving, on early Media High School diplomas.

Media Presbyterian Church

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-02007.jpg
Date: 1880 (circa)
Stereoview

Aerial view of central section of Media, Pa., looking east from above Orange Street.

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-01474A.jpg
Location: Media (Pa.)
Date: 1967 (circa)
Pressed-on lines applied to delineate the urban renewal area. This was probably reproduced in one of the urban renewal report.

Aerial view of central section of Media, Pa., looking west from above Monroe Street

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-01474B.jpg
Location: Media (Pa.)
Date: 1967 (circa)
Pressed-on lines applied to delineate the urban renewal area. This was probably reproduced in one of the urban renewal report.

Sixth annual banquet of Elvira Lodge 128, Shepherds of Bethlehem, March 17, 1931, at McCallister's.

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-14014.jpg
Date: 1931-03-17
McCallister's was a restaurant or reception hall at 1815 Spring Garden Street in Philadelphia

Looking east at the south side of State Street, from east of Olive Street to Jackson Street

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-01365A.jpg
Date: 1931-01
This photograph was taken by Edward V. Streeper Jr. in January 1931, and removed from one of his scrapbooks. A modern enlargement was made from his original negative, also enclosed, with a vintage print. Streeper's identifications of the buidligns…

Staff of Motor Sales Inc. of Media, in front of 30-34 E. State Street

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-01104.jpg
Date: 1950 (circa)
Caption calls this "Miley & Brown, Chrysler and Plymouth."

View of south side of Baltimore Avenue, in west end of Media, Pa.

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-01106.jpg
Date: 1930-1940
View includes Allen's Scrapple-Pork Products--Clement E. Allen, on Brooke St. near Baltimore Avenue, and many other houses.

Media Borough Highway Department, men at work

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-01146.jpg
Date: 1940-1950
Curbing and paving project, possibly on State Street east of Edgemont Street, looking west.

First National Bank of Media, 1950

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-17050.jpg
Date: 1950-06
The building is decorated for the Media Centennial Celebration, June 3-10, 1950.

Media team, Delco Valley League, 1947

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-15042.jpg
Location: Media (Pa.)
Date: 1947
(Probably left to right). Front row: Conrad "Connie" Brown, Fats Baldwin, Henry Schuhardt, Miller Young, Pete Baldwin, Bill Snyder. Middle row: Lefty Johnson, Reds Larkin, Frank Baldwin, Lefty McCullough, Lefty Paige. Back row: Ivan Malseed, Ray…

First National Bank of Media, reception area

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-17029.jpg
Date: 1949 (circa)
This shows an interior renovation made after the 1926 changes. No. 55443

First National Bank of Media, Open House, November 3, 1949, 6:30 P.M.

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-17032.jpg
Date: 1949-11-03
[Caption on reverse: "Matthews, G. Rigby, Bevan, Abel, E. [Edward H.] Rigby" Written to side of these names is “Freeman”

First National Bank of Media, banking floor

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-17045.jpg
Date: 1949 (circa)
This shows an interior renovation made after the 1926 changes. No. 55444