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  • Collection: I. Frank Lees Photograph Collection
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"Media Hill," on Baltimore Avenue, looking west out of the borough toward Ridley Creek

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-01039B.jpg
Location: Media (Pa.)
Date: 1921
Frank Lees caption: "Graham automobile driven by Charles Pierson of Media." Trolley tracks are shown on south side of road.

Delaware County Friends of “Fritz” - Arcadia Cafe, Jan. 12, 1921.

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Date: 1921
Oversized photo of banquet at Arcadia Café . This is probably the restaurant opened in 1915, in Philadelphia's Widener Building on Penn Square, by Fritz Pflug--hence, the "Friends of Fritz." See "Restaurants," The Encyclopedia of Greater…

State Street, looking west from Lemon Street

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Date: 1921 (circa)
Frank Lees caption: "The row of old homes on the left were built by H. Jones Brooke about 18960 and have been completely restored. This is part of Media's historic district." Copy of original photo; source not noted

John Zinn, wife, and child, 303 South Avenue

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Date: 1921 (circa)
Folder title: Zinn Family, 303 South Avenue, circa 1921

John Zinn and child

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Date: 1921 (circa)
Folder title: Zinn Family, 303 South Avenue, circa 1921

John Zinn, his father, and his child, 303 South Avenue

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Date: 1921 (circa)
Folder title: Zinn Family, 303 South Avenue, circa 1921

Mrs. Zinn on steps of Delaware County Court House

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Date: 1921 (circa)
Folder title: Zinn Family, 303 South Avenue, circa 1921. This is probably the mother of John Zinn, pictures in this series.

Zinn's

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-01214E.jpg
Date: 1921 (circa)
Folder title: Zinn Family, 303 South Avenue, circa 1921. This is probably wife and child of John Zinn.

John Zinn and child, 303 South Avenue

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-01214G.jpg
Date: 1921 (circa)
Folder title: Zinn Family, 303 South Avenue, circa 1921

Zinn family, 303 South Avenue

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Date: 1921 (circa)
Folder title: Zinn Family, 303 South Avenue, circa 1921

Mrs. Zinn and child, 303 South Avenue

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Date: 1921 (circa)
Folder title: Zinn Family, 303 South Avenue, circa 1921

Zinn house, with dog, 303 South Avenue

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Date: 1921 (circa)
Folder title: Zinn Family, 303 South Avenue, circa 1921

Anna Rose Williams, 301 South Avenue

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Date: 1921 (circa)
Folder title: Zinn Family, 303 South Avenue, circa 1921

Backyard, 303 South Avenue

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Date: 1921 (circa)
Folder title: Zinn Family, 303 South Avenue, circa 1921

John Zinn and child, 303 South Avenue

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Date: 1921 (circa)
Folder title: Zinn Family, 303 South Avenue, circa 1921

Broomall's Lake

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Date: 1922
See P-01026A for full description

Broomall's Lake

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-01027O.jpg
Date: 1922 (circa)
See P-01026A for full description

Looking east on State Street from South Avenue (now Veteran's Square).

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-01042A.jpg
Date: 1922 (circa)
Frank Lees caption: "This view, dated about 1922, is a view looking east on State Street at South Avenue. Robinson & Crawford grocery store is on the corner, in the original store building built in Media in the early 1850s. Although Robinson and…

Mingin’s Market, southeast corner of Baltimore Avenue and Orange Street

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-01061.jpg
Date: 1922-11-28
Lees caption: "Formerly Rorer's Grocery." Amazing displays of produce and towers of canned goods. "Cider, 40 cents gallon"

Delivery truck of Raymond B. Worrall Wholesale Confectioner. Distributors of "Romance Chocolates." Bell Phone 879.

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Date: 1923
Frank Lees caption: Raymond B. Worrall was a candy merchant in Media for many years, from his residence at 311 E. Baltimore Avenue. This photo was taken in front of what is now (1990) Weather's Dodge in Lima.