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Media High School football team, 1931
Address: 120 E. Front St., Media (Pa.)
Date: 1931
See names on accompanying sheet. Copy of original photo; source not noted
Northeast corner of State Street and South Avenue (now Veteran's Square).
Date: 1931 (circa)
Frank Lees caption: "Showing ASCO (American Stores Company) and the Henry C. Snowden Hardware Store." This is probably a Streeper photo.
Looking east at the south side of State Street, from east of Olive Street to Jackson Street
Date: 1931-01
This photograph was taken by Edward V. Streeper Jr. in January 1931, and removed from one of his scrapbooks. A modern enlargement was made from his original negative, also enclosed, with a vintage print. Streeper's identifications of the buidligns…
Sixth annual banquet of Elvira Lodge 128, Shepherds of Bethlehem, March 17, 1931, at McCallister's.
Date: 1931-03-17
McCallister's was a restaurant or reception hall at 1815 Spring Garden Street in Philadelphia
Mary Matthews, Media Public School report card
Address: Media (Pa.)
Date: 1933-1934
Report Card, Media Public School for Mary Matthews, grade 8. Issued for the school year 1933-1934. Teacher was Miss Gamble.
Woodward's Bakery, northwest corner of State and Orange streets
Date: 1934-03
No identifications, but some of the same women appear in this photo and in P-01148.
Bowling alley and pool room above Pierson’s Garage, 311 W. Baltimore Avenue
Address: 311 W. Baltimore Ave., Media (Pa.)
Date: 1935 (circa)
Sign above alley reads: Do Not Step Over the Foul Line.
William H. Ridley
Address: Media (Pa.)
Date: 1935 ca.
He lived from 1867 to 1945. He was the first child born to Martha Jane and Cornelius Ridley in Media.
John Abernathy, owner, Media Terminal Market, southeast corner, State and Plum streets
Date: 1935-1945
The market stood at the southeast corner of State and Plum streets.
Aerial view of Pennsylvania Military College
Location: Chester (Pa.)
Date: 1935-1945
PMC is now Widener University. This view is looking north over building known as Old Main.
Aerial view of convent and public school, Sharon Hill, Pa.
Location: 300 Calcon Hook Rd., Sharon Hill (Pa.)
Date: 1935-1945
the 1909 Mueller map identifies the church and surrounding complex as the Convent of the Holy Child Jesus. The other building is the Sharon Hill School. Calcon Hook Road winds through the upper left. The entire site is now (2020) occupied by Academy…
Aerial view of Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pa.
Location: Swarthmore (Pa.)
Date: 1935-1945
View looking south from College Avenue and Route 320, showing Swarthmore College dormitory building and Benjamin West House at top center
Aerial view of Prospect Hill Baptist Church, Prospect Park, Pa.
Location: Prospect Park (Pa.)
Date: 1935-1945
View also shows cemetery on Lincoln Avenue. Further along this avenue, on the opposite side of the street are a school building (now demolished), First United Methodist Church (remodeled and added onto since this photograph), and at 822 Lincoln…
Aerial view of Collingdale, Pa.
Location: Collingdale (Pa.)
Date: 1935-1945
View shows buildings that are now the Collingdale Borough community center and police station, at MacDade Boulevard and Clifton Street. Har Zion Cemetery is in the upper right corner of the photo.
Aerial view of Sisters of Mercy Convent, Lower Merion Township, Pa.
Location: Lower Merion Township (Pa.)
Date: 1935-1945
The convent is now on the campus of Waldron Mercy Academy
Aerial view of Chester Pike in Prospect Park and Glenolden, Pa.
Location: Prospect Park (Pa.)
Date: 1935-1945
View shows Chester Pike looking northeast from Summit Avenue in Prospect Park toward the SEPTA/Amtrak rail line overpass at South Avenue in Glenolden.
