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Two unidentified children

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Zimmerman/ZM-3012.jpg
Address: Not Known
Date: 1950-05-06
No identification on negative envelope. These may be children of the photographer, Francis F. Zimmerman.

Two unidentified children

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Zimmerman/ZM-3013.jpg
Address: Not Known
Date: 1950-05-06
No identification on negative envelope. These may be children of the photographer, Francis F. Zimmerman.

Media Fire Company. Housing new Seagrave fire engine.

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Zimmerman/ZM-3016.jpg
Date: 1950-05-06
Beer party in firehouse after the event.

Media Fire Company. Housing new Seagrave fire engine.

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Zimmerman/ZM-3017.jpg
Date: 1950-05-06
Beer party in firehouse after the event. Francis (Duke) Cunningham entertaining the ladies.

Media Fire Company. Housing new Seagrave fire engine.

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Zimmerman/ZM-3018.jpg
Date: 1950-05-06
Beer party in firehouse after the event. Edward Gibson, chief (left) with Mildred Gibson, his wife. As of 2020, four generations of the Gibson family have served the Media community though work with the fire company.

Media Fire Company. Housing new Seagrave fire engine.

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Zimmerman/ZM-3019.jpg
Date: 1950-05-06
Beer party in firehouse after the event.

Harry Painter in White Hardware, showing customer Great American brand reel push lawnmower.

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Zimmerman/ZM-3022.jpg
Date: 1950-05-11
Painter is probably the man with the beard, which he is probably growing for the Media Centennial Beard Contest.

Harry Painter in White Hardware, showing customer Great American brand reel push lawnmower.

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Zimmerman/ZM-3023.jpg
Date: 1950-05-11
Painter is probably the man with the beard, which he is probably growing for the Media Centennial Beard Contest.

Media Centennial Celebration. Miss Greater Media Beauty Contest, at the Media Theatre. Finals

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Date: 1950-05-10
Patty Highfield, winner, left, with Doris Mooney, the reigning Mrs. Philadelphia.

Media Centennial Celebration. Miss Greater Media Beauty Contest, at the Media Theatre. Finals

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Date: 1950-05-10
Seven finalists on stage. Left to right: Arianne Scholz, Jeannine Olson, Leona McGowan, Virginia Merion, Margaret Young, Patty Highfield, Joanne Goodwin.

Media Centennial Celebration. Miss Greater Media Beauty Contest, at the Media Theatre. Finals

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Zimmerman/ZM-3035.jpg
Date: 1950-05-10
Doris Mooney, reigning Mrs. Philadelphia, pinning a corsage on Patty Highfield's bathing suit. Walter J. Wood, who chaired the event for the Media Junior Chamber of Commerce (Jaycees), is at microphone.

Media Centennial Celebration. Miss Greater Media Beauty Contest, at the Media Theatre. Finals

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Zimmerman/ZM-3038.jpg
Date: 1950-05-10
Patty Highfield with Walter J. Wood, publicity director for Pennsylvania Military College in Chester, Pa., who chaired the event for the Media Junior Chamber of Commerce (Jaycees).