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  • Collection: I. Frank Lees Photograph Collection
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Aerial view of Media

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-01019.jpg
Location: Media (Pa.)
Date: 1929-08-28
Copy of original photo; source not noted

Aerial view of Media

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-01020.jpg
Location: Media (Pa.)
Date: 1929-08-28
Copy of original photo; source not noted

Media Old Timers. Sept. 1929. 35 years after.

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-15038.jpg
Date: 1929-09
Two copies. IDs on photograph: Left to right: Standing: Pete Reilly, George Noblitt, Jack Murray, Bill Alexander, Phil Carlin, Billy Diggins, Ollie Plummer, Pete Russell, Al Mathues. Kneeling, Matthew Fox.

William S. Thorp - Garner Service Station

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-01109C.jpg
Date: 1929-12
Sign reads: "Notice! On or about Dec. 16th this building will be demolished and the material [?] for sale."

William S. Thorp - Garner Service Station, northeast corner Plum and State streets

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-01109D.jpg
Date: 1929-12
Sign reads: "Notice! On or about Dec. 16th this building will be demolished and the material [?] for sale."

William S. Thorp - Garner Service Station, northeast corner Plum and State streets

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-01109E.jpg
Date: 1929-12
Sign reads: "Notice! On or about Dec. 16th this building will be demolished and the material [?] for sale."

William S. Thorp - Garner Service Station, and L. W. Woolworth Co. 5 & 10 cent Store, looking at north side of State Street from Plum Street

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-01109F.jpg
Date: 1929-12
Sign reads: "Notice! On or about Dec. 16th this building will be demolished and the material [?] for sale."

William S. Thorp - Garner Service Station, and L. W. Woolworth Co. 5 & 10 cent Store, looking at north side of State Street from Plum Street

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-01109G.jpg
Date: 1929-12
Sign reads: "Notice! On or about Dec. 16th this building will be demolished and the material [?] for sale."

William S. Thorp - Garner Service Station, and F. W. Woolworth Co. 5 & 10 cent Store, looking at north side of State Street from Plum Street

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-01109H.jpg
Date: 1929-12
Sign reads: "Notice! On or about Dec. 16th this building will be demolished and the material [?] for sale."

Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary Catholic Church, elementary school Class of 1930

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-03003A.jpg
Date: 1930
Location of this photograph is uncertain. In 1930, the School was located on the south side of Baltimore Avenue in the middle of the block between Gayley and Monroe streets. See P-03003B for the same photo with several people identified by Frank…

Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary Catholic Church, elementary school Class of 1930

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-03003B.jpg
Date: 1930
Location of this photograph is uncertain. In 1930, the School was located on the south side of Baltimore Avenue in the middle of the block between Gayley and Monroe streets. See P-03003A for the full photograph without IDs.

Laxton’s Garage, northwest corner of Jackson and Jasper streets.

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-01044.jpg
Date: 1930 (circa)
Bob Laxton Sr., Bob Laxton Jr., and Thurman Rock. The company may also have been called Laxton Motor Co., according to advertisements in the Chester Times on May 10 and 17, 1929, on page 3.

Large oak tree, southeast corner, Baltimore Avenue and Lemon Street

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-01231.jpg
Date: 1930 (circa)
This tree was on the Brinton property. See also AP-5127.

Group of children near bridge carrying Baltimore Pike over Ridley Creek

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-01311A.jpg
Date: 1930 (circa)
Left to right: Howard Mulholland, Cyrus Mulholland, Ann Mulholland, *Dot Sullivan (now Freeman), Sis Redding, *Dorothy Harvey (now Leonard, whose father took the photo), William Dutton Mulholland, Jr., and Arthur George Thorp, Jr. (* = only ones…

Houses at northwest corner of Baker and Olive streets

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-01364.jpg
Date: 1930 (circa)
Modern print from original 2 x 3 inch negative, possibly by Streeper

Clayton T. Smith Post #93, American Legion, Media, Pa.

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-01464.jpg
Date: 1930 (circa)
[Possibly in Media Theatre, perhaps a performance of a drum corps or drum and bugle corps.

Media High School Football Team, about 1930

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-03043.jpg
Date: 1930 (circa)
Includes identifications.

Media Free Library, studies for a possible addition

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-12026A.jpg
Date: 1930 (circa)
Light penciled extension added to the roofline. The rear of Media Borough Hall is on the right.

Media Free Library, studies for a possible addition

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-12026B.jpg
Date: 1930 (circa)
P-12026A overdrawn with proposed second-floor addition. The rear of Media Borough Hall is on the right.