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Media Railroad Station, freight house
Address: 301 Media Station Rd., Media (Pa.)
Date: 1890 (circa)
This identification is from Frank Lees. Photograph possibly by Dr. William T. W. Dickeson
Media High School Band: Memorial Day 1966
Date: 1966/05/30
This was the last time the MHS band marched down state street. Shortly after, the high school was closed, with the students transferred to the new Penncrest High School in Middletown Township. This photograph is probably a print made from a slide,…
Plumstead Inn and Tancreed's, State Street at Plum Street, south side
Date: 1968-07
Frank Lees caption: In July 1968 the Plumstead Inn and Tancreed's Dress Store were about to be torn down, for the relocation of Plum Street and the building of the First Keystone Federal Savings Bank. The building that house Tancreed's had earlier…
South Avenue (now Veterans Square) looking north from Baltimore Avenue toward the Delaware Court House, after heavy snowfall
Date: 1966-12
Besides the Court House, the photograph shows The Towne House restaurant, Provident National Building, and (left) the Bell Telephone building.
Franklin Street, looking west from South Avenue toward Orange Street, after heavy snowfall
Date: 1966-12
Hillhurst is the house on Orange Street in the center of the picture. David Jefferis lived there in December 1966, and probably took this photograph
Baltimore Avenue looking east from Orange Street after a snowfall
Date: 1966-12
View includes Storey's Unpainted [Furniture] and Media Republican Club on right or south side, and the modern Delaware County National Bank building and Sunoco Station on the north side.
North side of Baltimore Avenue looking west from Orange Street after a snowfall
Date: 1966-12
Frank Lees caption: "From right to left are: the building once occupied by Ellis Pharmacy, the building once occupied by Broadbelt Stables, Pierson's Garage, and Trimm Glass Company, which burned down in 1975. Below that was Pierson's auto showroom;…
Media baseball team
Location: Media (Pa.)
Date: 1920 (circa)
Man in white suit is William Cloud Alexander. Second from right is Shank, far right is Jack Kelley.
Aerial view of Media from the east
Location: Media (Pa.)
Date: 1926-08-09
Shows many landmarks and smaller houses. Excellent snapshot of development of Media at this moment in time.
Victoria Plush Mill
Date: 1906-03
Caption: Taken in March 1906 from south of Mill from field of V. P. M. [Victoria Plush Mills].
Victoria Plush Mill
Date: 1906-03
Caption: Taken March 1906 from west of Mill from quarry of V. P. M. [Victoria Plush Mills].
Victoria Plush Mill
Date: 1906-03
Caption: Taken in March 1906 from southwest of Mill from quarry of R. T. Ogden.
Delaware County Friends of “Fritz” - Arcadia Cafe, Jan. 12, 1921.
Date: 1921
Oversized photo of banquet at Arcadia Café . This is probably the restaurant opened in 1915, in Philadelphia's Widener Building on Penn Square, by Fritz Pflug--hence, the "Friends of Fritz." See "Restaurants," The Encyclopedia of Greater…
Lotus Pond, Rose Valley, Pa.
Address: 1 Old Mill Lane, Rose Valley (Pa.)
Date: 1908
Red Ink photo, series by same photographer named for red ink used for writing descriptions on reverse side of similarly-mounted images. This photo was entered in The John Wanamaker Exhibition of Photographs by Amateurs, February 1908. See P-11002 for…
Rose Valley near Moylan, Pa.
Date: 1908 (circa)
"Red Ink" photo, series by same photographer named for red ink used for writing descriptions on reverse side of similarly-mounted images. Looking south on Rose Valley Road, near intersection with Possum Hollow Road, at t what are known as the "Mill…
Falls, Crum Creek, Del. Co. Covered and trolley bridge. Plush Mills. Ed, Harvey, Bruce.
Location: Nether Providence (Pa. : Township)
Date: 1908 (circa)
"Red Ink" photo, series by same photographer named for red ink used for writing descriptions on reverse side of similarly-mounted images. Victoria Plush Mills are just out of the picture, to the right.