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Union Hotel, S. H. Serrill
Address: Not Known
Date: 1890-1900
Newspaper lists this as Linwood (1886) and Marcus Hook and vicinity (1902): "located at the Cross Roads, Linwood". I think this is the same place. See AP-5223 for close-up of Elsie Serrill and child on this porch.
D. A. Vernon
Location: Delaware County (Pa.)
Date: 1890-1900
Copy of an original portrait (either a photograph, drawing, or engraving); the original is signed E. J. Willcox, 1889. David Ashbridge Vernon was one of the founders of the Delaware County American. He died in 1888.
Mrs. T. R. Vernon at the piano
Location: Delaware County (Pa.)
Date: 1890-1900
Blanche Knight married Thomas Rufus Vernon, Sr. in 1880. Se AP-5262 for the Vernon family posed around this piano.
Stephen H. Appleton, as Worshipful Master
Location: Media (Pa.)
Date: 1890-1900
Worshipful Master is a Masonic Lodge position. The photographer wears a Masonic apron, white gloves and tuxedo with a Masonic pin on the lapel, and poses next to a certificate from the Masons on which sits his black top hat.
Mary Wilkinson
Location: Delaware County (Pa.)
Date: 1890-1900
Mary was daughter of Sarah and Edgar Wilkinson; Sarah (or Sallie) was Deborah Appleton's sister.
Bicycle boat, ashore
Date: 1890-1900
Illustrated advertising flyer for H. C. Johnson Water Cycle is included in Volume 26-2 of the Streeper Collection: "The latest Cycling novelty now in the market is the Johnson Water Cycle, which no doubt will become quite popular with all lovers of…
Fronefield houses
Address: Media (Pa.)
Date: 1890-1900
Photo shows Media Club at left, on corner of Baltimore Pike, and 205 and 207 South Avenue, to corner of Franklin St.
Quinby’s hearse, in front of funeral home
Address: 206 S. Orange St., Media (Pa.)
Date: 1890-1900
In front of business of “Mrs. A. J. Quinby & Sons, Funeral Directors." This building still stands and, in 2018, is still almost identical from the outside.
Ogden homestead
Date: 1890-1900
On the northwest corner of the intersection noted below, this house is still standing (2018). Henry Pearson, in Middletown Township, Delaware County, Pa. (286), claims that part of the house was built in 1681.
Deborah F. Appleton
Location: Appleton Studio
Date: 1890-1900
The photographer's wife. The negative is heavily retouched with blue paint on glass.