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House at 218 N. Edgemont Street, Media, Pa.

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-01308A.jpg
Date: 1975 (circa)
Caption by Frank Lees: "Edgemont St., S.W. from 3rd and Edgemont." This house no longer stands, but its location was confirmed by comparing the house in the background of P-01308B with the one that still stands (in 2020) at 206 N. Edgemont. The…

P.R.R. [Pennsylvania Railroad] Locomotive

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-04052F.jpg
Location: None
Date: 1880 (circa)
According to a handwritten note on the back of this card, this was the type of locomotive once used on the Media line. "Property of John McAllister, Media, Pa."

Dr. Walter E. Wentz home, 19. W. Baltimore Avenue, at Plum Street

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-01060.jpg
Date: 1967
House stood on the northwest corner of Baltimore Avenue and Plum Street. Demolished for construction of municipal parking garage.

Carriage house at rear of Dr. Walter E. Wentz home, 19 W. Baltimore Avenue, from Baker and Plum streets

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-01059.jpg
Date: 1967
View looking west on Baker Street from Plum Street. Demolished for construction of municipal parking garage.

Rear of Dr. Walter E. Wentz home, 19 W. Baltimore Avenue

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-01058.jpg
Date: 1967
This was the second building east of the Cooperative Store. Demolished for construction of municipal parking garage.

Rear of 25 W. Baltimore Avenue

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-01056.jpg
Date: 1967
Demolished for construction of municipal parking garage.

Rear of Dr. Walter E. Wentz home, 19 W. Baltimore Avenue, from Baker and Plum streets

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-01055.jpg
Date: 1967
View looking south at southwest corner of Baker and Plum streets. Demolished for construction of municipal parking garage.

25 W. Baltimore Avenue

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-01054.jpg
Date: 1967
Demolished for construction of municipal parking garage.

Baker Street looking west from Plum Street

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-01052.jpg
Date: 1967
Demolished for construction of municipal parking garage.

Southeast corner, Baker and Olive streets

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-01051.jpg
Date: 1967
Demolished for construction of municipal parking garage.

View looking east on Baltimore Avenue from west of Olive Street

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-01049B.jpg
Date: 1967
View shows Co-operative Store, gas station, Charles A. Limburg [Auto and Trucks] Sales and Service, Scotthaven Tourists, and various vintage automobiles parked and driving on the road.

Co-operative Store, northeast corner of Baltimore Avenue and Olive Street

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-01049A.jpg
Date: 1967
Demolished for construction of municipal parking garage.

Broomall’s Lake

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-01028D.jpg
Date: 1924
See P-01026A for full description

Broomall’s Lake

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-01028C.jpg
Date: 1924
See P-01026A for full description

Broomall’s Lake

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-01028B.jpg
Date: 1924
See P-01026A for full description

William H. Miller, President, First National Bank of Media, 1906-1925

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-17005.jpg
Location: Media (Pa.)
Date: 1920 (circa)
Original cabinet card on which the retouched image in P-17004 is based.

William H. Miller, President, First National Bank of Media, 1906-1925

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-17004.jpg
Location: Media (Pa.)
Date: 1920 (circa)
Heavily retouched photograph. This portrait and others decorated the bank's board room (see P-17026). See P-17005 for original cabinet card.

Joseph W. Hawley, President, First National Bank of Media 1894-1906

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-17003.jpg
Location: Media (Pa.)
Date: 1900 (circa)
This portrait and others decorated the bank's board room (see P-17026).

James J. Skelly

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-01141.jpg
Location: Media (Pa.)
Date: 1961 (circa)
Skelly was founder of James J. Skelly Co., a general contracting and road building firm once located in Media. See ad in Centennial Book, page 81, for a history of the firm up to 1950, and a photograph of Skelly with his two sons, Joseph J. and J.…

First National Bank of Media, 1927. View of Tellers cages and vaults

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-17028.jpg
Date: 1927-01-06
This photograph documents the addition and renovations, completed in 1926, pictured in P-17052 to P-17076. Probably J. E. Green photo; modern copy of original

First National Bank of Media, 1927.

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-17027.jpg
Date: 1927-01-06
This photograph documents the addition and renovations, completed in 1926, pictured in P-17052 to P-17076. Probably J. E. Green photo; modern copy of original

First National Bank of Media, 1927. Board room

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-17026.jpg
Date: 1927-05-02
This photograph documents the addition and renovations, completed in 1926, pictured in P-17052 to P-17076. J. E. Green photo 30340

First National Bank of Media, 1927. Bookkeeping office with check writing machines.

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-17025.jpg
Date: 1927-05-02
This photograph documents the addition and renovations, completed in 1926, pictured in P-17052 to P-17076. J. E. Green photo 30341

First National Bank of Media, 1927. New vault.

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-17024.jpg
Date: 1927
This photograph documents he addition and renovations, completed in 1926, pictured in P-17052 to P-17076. J. E. Green photo 30363