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  • Collection: Francis F. Zimmerman Photograph Collection
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Whitaker-Barrett Oldsmobile

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Date: no date
Garage and Oldsmobile automobile agency

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.

Cutting ice for storage out of Palmer's Dam

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Date: 1950-03-19
In the old vernacular, a pond and a dam were synonymous. Palmer's Dam was located on Ridley Creek just north of Baltimore Pike, upstream of the Media Water Works. Copy of original photo; source not noted. For Media Coal & Ice Company ad in Centennial…

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…

Crosby L. Smith (left) presenting "Media's Man of the Year" award, from the Media Businessmen's Association, to Lane A. Davis

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Date: 1950-03-27
According to a story in the Chester Times, March 28, 1950, page 10, the event was held at the Media Inn.

Office and Apartment Building, Media, Pa., for Mr. Philip Green. G. Harold Murphy AIA & Associates, Architects, Philadelphia, Pa.

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Date: 1950-03-28
Photograph of architectural rendering. Centennial Book 86. This building was planned to be on the southwest corner of Front Street and South Avenue (now Veterans Square), but it was never built.

Media Laundry, front

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Date: 1950-03-28
Centennial Book 91.

Delaware County Institute of Science

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Date: 1950-03-29
Centennial Book 72.

Media News building

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Date: 1950-03-29
This building was last occupied by Stillwell Moving and Storage, before it was condemned and demolished during Media's Baker Street Urban Renewal project. See photo in Baker Street Book 1-392, with plan showing the address; also various…

S. M. Wilson Chrysler-Plymouth Agency

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Date: 1950-03-31
See also ZM-2801 for a photograph of Sidney M. Wilson, owner of this business.

Media Centennial Beard Contest. Reese or Ress Jordan

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Date: 1950-03-31
Newspaper caption identifies this man as Ress Jordan.

Media Centennial Beard Contest. Reese or Ress Jordan

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Date: 1950-03-31
Newspaper caption identifies this man as Ress Jordan.

Media Boys' Club, officers and directors

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Address: Not Known
Date: 1950-04-03
Centennial Book 36. Caption in book does not identify the individuals.