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  • Collection: I. Frank Lees Photograph Collection
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Flood on Ridley Creek at Media Water Works

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-05015B.jpg
Date: 1950-11-25
On reverse: Negative number 5015 or 50-2. Photograph by A. H. Tipping. Caption reads: Severe storm swells small wading creek to over 8 feet deep. The swollen torrential stream is about to overflow into Media Borough's water system. The water within…

Flood on Ridley Creek at Media Water Works

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-05015C.jpg
Date: 1950-11-25
On reverse: Negative number 5015 or 50-3. Photograph by A. H. Tipping. Caption reads: Severe storm swells small wading stream to over 8 feet in depth. The swollen torrential stream is about to overflow into the Borough's water system. The water…

Flood on Ridley Creek north of Media Water Works

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-05015A.jpg
Date: 1950-11-25
On reverse: 5015, 50-1. Photograph by A. H. Tipping. Caption reads: Bridge on U.S. Rt #1 (Baltimore Pike) just over Media Borough line opposite Media Water Works in Upper Providence Township. Severe storms swell small creek to overflowing capacity.…

Flower girl at wedding

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Zimmerman/P-19197-02.jpg
Date: 1950-05-27
This is probably Peggy Jones, the flower girl at the wedding of Theodore D. Hadley, Jr. and Betty Ann Laning, both of Media, which took place at the Media Presbyterian Church. (Chester Times, May 27, 1950, p. 8)

Football team, probably from Media, Pa.

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-15019.jpg
Location: Media (Pa.)
Date: 1911 (circa)
Note on reverse: "pre-1915?"

Football team, probably from Media, Pa.

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-15020.jpg
Location: Media (Pa.)
Date: 1910 (circa)
Note on reverse: "pre-1915?"

Football team, S.A.A. [Springfield or Swarthmore Athletic Association?]

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-15045.jpg
Date: 1960 (circa)
Photo taken at "Idlewild Field," which might have been on the old Idlewild Hotel property off Manchester Road, near Media. Some players are identified on reverse.

Four men with shotguns, probably near Media, Pa.

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-15014.jpg
Date: 1910 (circa)
Donated by Mrs. Hoyt (nee Sill) on April 1, 1982. Removed from album; other photos in collection also donated by Mrs. Sill

Francisvale Home for Dogs at Devon, Pa.

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-14008G.jpg
Date: 1915 (circa)
One of eight photographs on two album pages.

Francisvale Home for Dogs at Devon, Pa.

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-14008H.jpg
Date: 1915 (circa)
One of eight photographs on two album pages.

Frank and Arthur Wiltshire at the Media Republican Club

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-01122.jpg
Date: 1950 (circa)
The two men are either receiving watches from or presenting them to the unnamed women.

Frank Lees, grand marshal

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-01419.jpg
Date: 1994-07-02
This is probably Media's 4th of July celebration.

Franklin Street, looking west from South Avenue toward Orange Street, after heavy snowfall

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-01286.jpg
Date: 1966-12
Hillhurst is the house on Orange Street in the center of the picture. David Jefferis lived there in December 1966, and probably took this photograph

Frannie Hannum, Media High School baton twirler

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-15049A.jpg
Date: 1950-11-23
At Media vs. Chester High School football game held at Pennsylvania Military College in Chester, Thanksgiving Day. PMC is now Widener University.

Frannie Hannum, Media High School baton twirler

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-15049B.jpg
Date: 1950-11-23
At Media vs. Chester High School football game held at Pennsylvania Military College in Chester, Thanksgiving Day. PMC is now Widener University.

Freihofer’s bread wagon

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-01357.jpg
Date: 1900-1925
Sign on horse-drawn wagon reads; Freihofer's, Fine Bread. The bakery was in Chester. Location of this photo is unknown.

Friends Select School 1910

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-03046.jpg
Date: 1910
Includes identifications on reverse, but in no discernible order.

Front Elevation, Media Post Office

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-06011-34.jpg
Date: 1916
Drawing No. 100A. Signed by J. A. (James A.) Wetmore, Acting Supervising Architect, Treasury Department