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Media High School track team, prior to 1914.
Address: 120 E. Front St., Media (Pa.)
Date: 1900-1914
Ten photos donated by Mrs. Hoyt (nee Sill) on April 1, 1982. Removed from album; other photos in MHAC collection also donated by Mrs. Hoyt
Media High School track team, prior to 1914.
Address: 120 E. Front St., Media (Pa.)
Date: 1900-1914
Ten photos donated by Mrs. Hoyt (nee Sill) on April 1, 1982. Removed from album; other photos in MHAC collection also donated by Mrs. Hoyt
Media High School, Senior Class, 1927
Address: 120 E. Front St., Media (Pa.)
Date: 1927
Photograph donated by Mark W. Allam. Identifications are included, though they do not correlate in any understandable way to the picture.
Media High School: Last Parade of Band, Memorial Day 1966
Address: 120 E. Front St., Media (Pa.)
Date: 1966
The high school closed after the 1966 school year, with students moving to the new Penncrest High School in Middletown Township.
Media Hospital
Date: 1950 (circa)
The hospital, founded in 1909, moved into the former Worrall mansion (pictured here) in 1911. Copy of original photo; source not noted
Media Hospital, northwest corner of Baltimore Avenue and Providence Road.
Date: 1940 (circa)
The hospital, founded in 1909, moved into the former Worrall mansion (pictured here) in 1911. Copy from negative made of original photo; source not noted.
Media Ledger Building, showing Media Hardware Co. and Jefferis Drugs, southwest corner of State and Jackson streets
Address: 2 W. State St., Media (Pa.)
Date: 1972-05-07
Caption sheet says this building built on land once owned by Isaac Worrall in 1891, the same year the Media Ledger newspaper was founded.
Media Lions Club Keystone Kops
Location: Media (Pa.)
Date: 1950
The performance of the Keystone Kops was part of the 8-day Media Centennial Celebration in June 1950. The Kops "punished" beardless men who had not purchased the required "Beardless Permits," which were sold by the Lions Club leading up to this…
Media Lions Club presenting iron lung to the Media Fire Department.
Location: Media (Pa.)
Date: 1950-1955
Names on reverse (probably left to right): Frank Lees (front), Gleave Baker, A. Fred Schultz, Mayor; Ed Gibson, Francis Gray, Gus Houtman, Bob Burke, and Charles Outland
Media Men’s Club, southeast corner, Baltimore Avenue and South Avenue
Date: 1900 (circa)
P-01276, P-01277 and P-01278 are mounted on identical boards, with identical handwriting in the captions, so they were all probably taken at the same time.
Media Municipal Parking Lot, northeast corner of Olive Street and Baltimore Avenue
Date: 1963 (circa)
The garage is under construction.
Media National Guard Armory, decorated for World War I Peace Parade, 1919
Address: State St. (Media, Pa.)
Date: 1919
Delaware County Peace Celebration, in honor of soldiers and sailors who served in World War I, June 27 and June 28, 1919.
Media officials accepting award from American Automobile Association (AAA)
Location: Media (Pa.)
Date: 1962-07-10
Left to right: Paul Clark, Weldon Heyburn, Gus Houtman, Frank Wiltshire, mayor of Media; and Carl Jones. Award is a 1961 "Pedestrian Safety Citation."
Media Old Timers. Sept. 1929. 35 years after.
Address: 120 E. Front St., Media (Pa.)
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.
Media or Furness Swimming Pool (formerly Gas Works site)
Date: 1943-08
Caption found handwritten on piece of envelope with photograph: "Entrance, Furness or Media Swimming pool, located on the site of the old Media Gas Tank, southwest of Media Railroad Station on the old Indian Trail, now Media [Station] Road."
Media Post Office
Address: 101 E. Baltimore Ave., Media (Pa.)
Date: 1970 (circa)
This building, which replaced a municipal metered parking lot, opened on November 17, 1962.
