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  • Collection: Francis F. Zimmerman Photograph Collection
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Media Fire Company. New Seagrave fire engine

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Date: 1950-03-12
Left to right: William (Billy) Hannum, unknown, Richard (Dick) Lavery

Media Free Library

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Date: 1950-03-04
Centennial Book 70

Media Furniture Store

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Date: 1950
"Airbrushed copy negative. Made for owner Sadir Elias's ad" in the Centennial Book 106. This building still (2020 ) stands, occupying the front and side yard of a much older Victorian twin that looms behind it.

Media High School

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Date: 1949-05-01
Centennial Book 62.

Media High School

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Date: 1949-05-01
Negative damaged

Media Hospital

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Date: 1950-03-06
The hospital sat on the northwest corner of the intersection. Centennial Book 27.

Media Junior Chamber of Commerce (Jaycees)

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Address: Not Known
Date: 1949-05-26
New Board officers. Left to right: Norman Yarnall, Edwin E. Lippincott 2d (Theodore Lippincott), Robert M. Shellenberger, Jr., Samuel M. Blumberg, Jr., L. Benjamin Palmer, and John E. Houtman (Gus D. Houtman, Jr.). Names from the Chester Times, May…

Media Junior Chamber of Commerce (Jaycees). Annual awards dinner

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Date: 1950-01-19
Left to right: Sam Blumberg, president, congratulating Media police chief Malcolm H. Laughead, Wilbur Duncan, Allen Fisher. Laughead received the 1949 Distinguished Award at the organizations third annual dinner, held at Howard Johnson's. (Chester…

Media Junior Chamber of Commerce (Jaycees). Annual awards dinner

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Date: 1950-01-19
Sam Blumberg presenting plaque to Media police chief Malcolm Laughead, Carley Outlander seated. Laughead received the 1949 Distinguished Award at the organization's third annual dinner, held at Howard Johnson's. (Chester Times, January 20, 1950)

Media Junior Chamber of Commerce (Jaycees). Clean Up on State Street.

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Date: 1948-05-15
Inside School Pharmacy, refreshments after the clean up. Joseph Gershenfeld, owner, behind the counter. Bud Arters may be the man in the foreground.

Media Junior Chamber of Commerce (Jaycees). Street numbering project

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Date: 1950-03-18
Caption from Chester Times, March 30, 1950, page 5: "Media Jaycees at Work: Burgess J. Fred Schultz [with paintbrush] stencils first house number in Media Junior Chamber of Commerce curb stenciling project, one of the Jaycees' civic improvement…

Media Laundry, front

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Date: 1950-03-28
Centennial Book 91.

Media Lions Club, officers

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Address: Not Known
Date: 1950-04-25
Left to right: William Patterson, Frank Snear, Francis Gray, Robert W. Burke, A. Fred Manno, and James Stewart. Centennial Book 39.

Media Lions Club, officers

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Address: Not Known
Date: 1950-04-25
Left to right: William Patterson, Frank Snear, Francis Gray, Robert W. Burke, A. Fred Manno, and James Stewart.

Media Motor Sales Inc. (Media Garage)

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Date: 1950-02-21
John D. Young (right) showing 1950 Plymouth to prospective buyer.