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  • Collection: I. Frank Lees Photograph Collection
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Sycamore Mills, Library

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-08041.jpg
Date: 1900 (circa)
Not sure what "library" means.

Covered bridge over Ridley Creek at Sycamore Mills

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-08042.jpg
Date: 1900 (circa)

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)

Malin Homestead

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-08055.jpg
Date: 1909 (circa)
Frank Lees caption: "The Malin family homestead was located on Ridley Creek Road just South of the Red Bridge at Rose Tree Road, very near where the, Brookwood Home is today (12-7-85). The photo shows a date of 1785, however papers and grants show…

Baltimore Pike being widened

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-09022.jpg
Date: 1938-12-28
Loking east down to Ridley Creek Valley, from about where Black Horse Tavern once stood. Delaware County Court House is building atop the hill in the background.

Rockdale Wheelmen

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-09025.jpg
Date: 1897
Portrait of this bicycle club and some of their bicycles.

Collapse of covered bridge carrying Baltimore Pike over Crum Creek at Victoria Plush Mills

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-10001.jpg
Date: 1913-04
The Plush Mill Bridge collapsed April 20, 1913, when an 18-ton steamroller was crossing and crashed through the floor. See Chester Times, April 21, 1913 and a March 13, 1914 article about the lawsuit that ensued. Frank Lees caption: "Trolley…

Victoria Plush Mill

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-10003A.jpg
Date: 1917 (circa)

Victoria Plush Mill

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-10003B.jpg
Date: 1898-12

Victoria Plush Mill

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-10003C.jpg
Date: 1898-12

Victoria Plush Mill

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-10003D.jpg
Date: 1898-12

Victoria Plush Mill

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-10003E.jpg
Date: 1898-12

Victoria Plush Mill

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-10003F.jpg
Date: 1898-12

Victoria Plush Mill

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-10003G.jpg
Date: 1898-12

Victoria Plush Mill

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-10003K.jpg
Date: 1906 (circa)

Victoria Plush Mill

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-10003L.jpg
Date: 1906 (circa)

Victoria Plush Mill

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-10003M.jpg
Date: 1910 (circa)

Victoria Plush Mill

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

Covered bridge carrying Baltimore Pike over Crum Creek

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-10009A.jpg
Date: 1910 (circa)
Caption also calls this the Victoria Plush Mill Bridge. The view is looking east into Springfield. Modern print, probably from glass negative.

Covered bridge carrying Baltimore Pike over Crum Creek

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-10009B.jpg
Date: 1910 (circa)
Caption also calls this the Victoria Plush Mill Bridge. The view is looking east into Springfield. Modern print, probably from glass negative.

Covered bridge carrying Baltimore Pike over Crum Creek

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-10009C.jpg
Date: 1917
Caption also calls this the Victoria Plush Mill Bridge. This view is looking west into Nether Providence A trolley is shown alongside the bridge. Copy of original photo; source not noted.

World War I Memorial Bridge over Crum Creek

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-10011.jpg
Date: 1925 (circa)
The so-called Plush Mill Memorial Bridge, with its associated bronze tablets memorializing World War I dead, was dedicated June 16, 1926.

Building the World War I Memorial Bridge

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-10012A.jpg
Date: 1923-1926

Building the World War I Memorial Bridge

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-10012B.jpg
Date: 1923-1926