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  • Collection: I. Frank Lees Photograph Collection
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Brooke Hall Academy for Girls: Lawn

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-03032.jpg
Date: 1890 (circa)

Pennsylvania Railroad, path to Idlewild Hotel, looking west along tracks toward Orange Street

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-04006A.jpg
Date: 1890 (circa)

Pennsylvania Railroad, path to Idlewild Hotel, looking west along tracks toward Orange Street

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-04006B.jpg
Date: 1890 (circa)

Railroad High Bridge over Ridley Creek Valley, looking west

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-04007.jpg
Location: Media (Pa.)
Date: 1890 (circa)
Bridge over railroad, and Clothier Mansion atop hill, are visible in the background.

Steam train in Media Station pulling up to water tower

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-04009A.jpg
Date: 1890 (circa)

Media Railroad Station, freight house

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-04042.jpg
Date: 1890 (circa)
This identification is from Frank Lees. Photograph possibly by Dr. William T. W. Dickeson

Media Railroad Station

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-04043.jpg
Date: 1890 (circa)

Railroad bridge, probably in Delaware County, Pa.

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-04049.jpg
Date: 1890 (circa)
Location of this photograph is uncertain. Original caption: The original High Bridge from the Media Water Works area. Frank Lees wrote on folder: Believed to be over Darby Creek at Clifton Heights, not Media as marked. The photographer lived in…

Rose Tree Hotel

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-08022.jpg
Date: 1890 (circa)
Print given to Frank Lees by Mrs. Warren Fisher, Oct. 11, 1971

Saw Mill at Sycamore Mills

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-08023.jpg
Date: 1890 (circa)
On Ridley Creek, but exact location uncertain.

Crum Creek

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-08043.jpg
Location: None
Date: 1890 (circa)
Exact location unknown

Idlewild Lane, with Frank Furness house on right, looking toward Gayley Street

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-08054A.jpg
Date: 1890 (circa)

Victoria Plush Mill

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-10008.jpg
Date: 1890 (circa)
Copy of original photo; source not noted

Victoria Plush Mill and vicinity, looking northeast

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-10027.jpg
Date: 1890 (circa)

St. Thomas the Apostle Church

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-14001.jpg
Date: 1890 (circa)
Includes view of graveyard.

Bridge over Ridley Creek, the west entrance to Media, Del. Co., Pa.

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-05058.jpg
Date: 1890 (circa)
This bridge carried Baltimore Pike over the creek. The small inlet and large pond are part of the Media Water Works.

West entrance to Media, Del. Co., Pa.

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-01083.jpg
Location: Media (Pa.)
Date: 1890-1900
Looking west on Baltimore Avenue toward Brooke Street

Chalfant’s Livery Stable, northwest corner of State and Jackson streets

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-01238.jpg
Date: 1890-1900
Frank Lees dated this as 1915 (Circa), but it is probably older. Copy of original photo; source not noted

Sallie Orr

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-01243.jpg
Location: Media (Pa.)
Date: 1890-1900
The caption reads: "Wife of Hugh Brannin, N. Orange St.," though this marriage must have occurred years after this photo was taken.

Idlewild Hotel

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-01248A.jpg
Date: 1890-1900

Oxen team drawing wagon at northeast corner, Front and Orange streets

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-01275.jpg
Date: 1890-1900
Delaware County Court House is in background. African-American man is tending the four oxen. Two children look on in the background.

Miller House

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-01295.jpg
Date: 1890-1900
Property of William H. Miller. For similar, see AP-4127. Copy of original photo; source not noted

The Gayley House (Convent for Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary Catholic Church)

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-01297.jpg
Date: 1890-1900

Van L. Wolf, Light Wagon Builder, Carriage Builder

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-01363E.jpg
Location: Media (Pa.)
Date: 1890-1910
The 1900 Semi-Centennial pamphlet, page 83, locates this business at State and Jackson streets. A photocopy of an undated advertisement in this photo folder locates it at "Cor. State & Plum Sts., Media." The 1882 map of Media shows a carriage…

Media Carriage Works, south side of State Street between Edgemont and Radnor streets

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-01291A.jpg
Date: 1892 (circa)
Frank Lees caption: Lines Motors and Walsh Ford later occupied this location. Copy of original photo; source not noted