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- Collection: I. Frank Lees Photograph Collection
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Media Free Library, studies for a possible addition
Date: 1930 (circa)
Roof details, viewed from fire escape on Media Borough Hall building, looking northwest to west side of Jackson Street
Media Free Library, studies for a possible addition
Date: 1930 (circa)
Roof details, viewed from fire escape on Media Borough Hall building, looking north to back of house on southeast corner of Jackson and Front streets
Bonsall Bros. Hardware and Groceries, and Broomall Post Office
Date: 1930 (circa)
Building erected 1817. Torn down 1965 or after. Gasoline pump also shown. According to the 1909 Mueller Atlas, Plate 30, this building stood on the northeast corner of the intersection of West Chester Pike and Sproul Road. Address is approximate
Media baseball team
Location: Media (Pa.)
Date: 1930 (circa)
Probably Media Athletic Association team. List of players on reverse of two copies, each list slightly different: Top row, left to right: Mike Fahey, Bill (or Lane] Davis, Frank Dotts, Reds Pyle (or ____ Simcox), ____, Cliff Mooney, Marshall Harvey,…
Minstrel Show at Media High School
Address: 120 E. Front St., Media (Pa.)
Date: 1930-1939
Frank Lees identifies the following: On right end, George Major, standing next to his sister Lillian Major Baker. Standing, 7th from left, Stanley T. Hibberd. First man kneeling, on right, is Gleave L. Baker.
Samuel D. Riddle at the race track
Address: 2150 Hempstead Turnpike, Elmont, NY
Date: 1930-1939 (circa)
Left to right: Unknown woman, jockey Charlie Curtsinger, Samuel D. Riddle, and Charles Schoff. This may have been taken at Belmont Park, in Elmont, Long Island, N.Y., based on the location of the photo service in Queens, N.Y. The woman holds some…
View of south side of Baltimore Avenue, in west end of Media, Pa.
Address: 221 Brooke St., Media (Pa.)
Date: 1930-1940
View includes Allen's Scrapple-Pork Products--Clement E. Allen, on Brooke St. near Baltimore Avenue, and many other houses.
Malin Building, Orange and Baker streets
Date: 1930-1940
A negative is included in this folder. Photography probably by Streeper.
Media Presbyterian Church Black and White Club
Address: 30 E. Baltimore Ave., Media (Pa.)
Date: 1930-1940
According to the Chester Times, the club performed a minstrel show in March 1934 and March 1936, in the Media High School auditorium. This may not be the cast of that particular performance, but judging from the costumes (especially the two men in…
Media High School football team, 1931
Address: 120 E. Front St., Media (Pa.)
Date: 1931
See names on accompanying sheet. Copy of original photo; source not noted
Northeast corner of State Street and South Avenue (now Veteran's Square).
Date: 1931 (circa)
Frank Lees caption: "Showing ASCO (American Stores Company) and the Henry C. Snowden Hardware Store." This is probably a Streeper photo.
Looking east at the south side of State Street, from east of Olive Street to Jackson Street
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…
Sixth annual banquet of Elvira Lodge 128, Shepherds of Bethlehem, March 17, 1931, at McCallister's.
Date: 1931-03-17
McCallister's was a restaurant or reception hall at 1815 Spring Garden Street in Philadelphia
Woodward's Bakery, northwest corner of State and Orange streets
Date: 1934-03
No identifications, but some of the same women appear in this photo and in P-01148.
Bowling alley and pool room above Pierson’s Garage, 311 W. Baltimore Avenue
Address: 311 W. Baltimore Ave., Media (Pa.)
Date: 1935 (circa)
Sign above alley reads: Do Not Step Over the Foul Line.
John Abernathy, owner, Media Terminal Market, southeast corner, State and Plum streets
Date: 1935-1945
The market stood at the southeast corner of State and Plum streets.
Aerial view of Pennsylvania Military College
Location: Chester (Pa.)
Date: 1935-1945
PMC is now Widener University. This view is looking north over building known as Old Main.
Aerial view of convent and public school, Sharon Hill, Pa.
Location: 300 Calcon Hook Rd., Sharon Hill (Pa.)
Date: 1935-1945
the 1909 Mueller map identifies the church and surrounding complex as the Convent of the Holy Child Jesus. The other building is the Sharon Hill School. Calcon Hook Road winds through the upper left. The entire site is now (2020) occupied by Academy…
Aerial view of Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pa.
Location: Swarthmore (Pa.)
Date: 1935-1945
View looking south from College Avenue and Route 320, showing Swarthmore College dormitory building and Benjamin West House at top center