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  • Collection: Francis F. Zimmerman Photograph Collection
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Media Centennial Executive Committee visiting new Media Bell Telephone Exchange

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Zimmerman/ZM-2772.jpg
Date: 1950-04-05
Individuals are not identified on negative envelope. Group includes Frank Lees, J. Fred Schultz, Edward Streeper, John Tipping, Frank Wiltshire, Walter Strine, Edward Young…

Media Centennial Executive Committee visiting new Media Bell Telephone Exchange

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Zimmerman/ZM-2773.jpg
Date: 1950-04-05
Individuals are not identified on negative envelope. Group includes Frank Lees, J. Fred Schultz, Edward Streeper, John Tipping, Frank Wiltshire, Walter Strine, Edward Young…

Media Centennial Executive Committee visiting new Media Bell Telephone Exchange

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Zimmerman/ZM-2774.jpg
Date: 1950-04-05
Individuals are not identified on negative envelope. Group includes Frank Lees, J. Fred Schultz, Edward Streeper, John Tipping, Frank Wiltshire, Walter Strine, Edward Young. This negative is moldy; scanning the contact print may produce a better…

Media Centennial Executive Committee visiting new Media Bell Telephone Exchange

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Zimmerman/ZM-2775.jpg
Date: 1950-04-05
Individuals are not identified on negative envelope. Group includes Frank Lees, J. Fred Schultz, Edward Streeper, John Tipping, Frank Wiltshire, Walter Strine, Edward Young…

Media Clinic

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Zimmerman/ZM-2699.jpg
Date: 1950-03-06
Centennial Book 27.

Media Coal & Ice Company, trucks lined up in front of plant.

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Date: 1950-03-19
Address is given in newspaper advertisements as "South Ave and the Pennsylvania Railroad." The business was located east of Orange Street and north of South Avenue. "Made for Mr. Michener, used for advertisement." Centennial Book 85.

Media Dry Cleaners

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Zimmerman/ZM-2930.jpg
Date: 1949-05-01
Identifications, from the negative envelope, are probably left to right: Michael Alexander, F. T. Dotts, Frank Lomas, and Samuel Abrams, who is coatless and was an employee of the company.

Media Elementary School, looking west from Edgmont Street near State Street.

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Zimmerman/ZM-2690.jpg
Date: 1950-03-06
The elementary school occupied the eastern part of the school complex, with the high school in the western section. Centennial Book 63.

Media Fire Company members with equipment in front of Borough Hall

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Zimmerman/ZM-3069.jpg
Date: 1895
This is Zimmerman's copy of an old photograph, dated 1895.

Media Fire Company officers

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Zimmerman/ZM-2881.jpg
Address: Not Known
Date: 1950-04-28
Left to right: William Hannum, Robert Ford, Charles Outland, Charles Higgins, Edward Gibson, Frank Lees, A. Randall Mathues, Bernard Cunningham, Richard Lavery, John Tipping, Centennial Book 26. Negative damaged.

Media Fire Company. Housing new Seagrave fire engine

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Zimmerman/ZM-2953.jpg
Date: 1950-05-06
Shows the parade that was part of this event. Date on negative envelope wrong.

Media Fire Company. Housing new Seagrave fire engine.

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Zimmerman/ZM-2956.jpg
Date: 1950-05-06
Crowd listening to Crosby L. Smith, who was Media's tax collector in 1950 and former burgess (or mayor) of the borough. Date on negative envelope wrong.

Media Fire Company. Housing new Seagrave fire engine.

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Zimmerman/ZM-3016.jpg
Date: 1950-05-06
Beer party in firehouse after the event.

Media Fire Company. Housing new Seagrave fire engine.

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Zimmerman/ZM-3017.jpg
Date: 1950-05-06
Beer party in firehouse after the event. Francis (Duke) Cunningham entertaining the ladies.

Media Fire Company. Housing new Seagrave fire engine.

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Zimmerman/ZM-3018.jpg
Date: 1950-05-06
Beer party in firehouse after the event. Edward Gibson, chief (left) with Mildred Gibson, his wife. As of 2020, four generations of the Gibson family have served the Media community though work with the fire company.

Media Fire Company. Housing new Seagrave fire engine.

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Zimmerman/ZM-3019.jpg
Date: 1950-05-06
Beer party in firehouse after the event.

Media Fire Company. New Seagrave fire engine

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Zimmerman/ZM-2706.jpg
Date: 1950-03-12
William (Billy) Hannum behind the wheel, as Walter Rhodes looks on.

Media Fire Company. New Seagrave fire engine

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Zimmerman/ZM-2707.jpg
Date: 1950-03-12
William (Billy) Hannum behind the wheel, as Walter Rhodes looks on.