Browse Items (4670 total)

Items open in a separate tab. Close the tab to return to this list.

Purling waters and murmuring pines, Beatty's Hollow.

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-10004B.jpg
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 scene is on Crum Creek, near Beatty Road. Address is approximate. This photo was entered in The John…

Middletown Public School No. 1

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-09012A.jpg
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.

Between Mt. Alverno and Knowlton, Ed, Whitey, and Walker

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-09006.jpg
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. Between Mt. Alverno and Knowlton roads, looking upstream. Chester Creek flows in the valley to the left below…

Ridley Creek below Duffs, Moylan, Pa.

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-08030.jpg
Location: 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. Duffs may be the mill that now houses the borough offices for Rose Valley, Pa. It is possible that the…

House opposite Media Park

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-08026.jpg
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. Frank Lees wrote that this house is now on what is known as the Upper Bank Nursery property. The property is…

Lovers Lane, Idlewild Woods

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-08019.jpg
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 is possibly the lane that one ran on the Park Avenue side of the Idlewild Hotel, which is now unused and is…

Ridley Creek from P.M.S. trolley bridge, looking south, Media, Pa.

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-08018B.jpg
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. P.M.S. is the Philadelphia, Morton & Swarthmore Street Railway Company. This line did have a bridge in…

Rose Valley near Moylan, Ben Walker and Ed

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-08018A.jpg
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. Photo shows a stream that may be Vernon Run, a Ridley Creek tributary.

Creek Road, along Ridley Creek, near Moylan, Pa. Bruce, Harvey and Ed.

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-08012B.jpg
Date: 1908
"Red Ink" photo, series by same photographer named for red ink used for writing descriptions on reverse side of similarly-mounted images. Location uncertain. This photo was entered in The John Wanamaker Exhibition of Photographs by Amateurs, February…

Creek Road, along Ridley Creek, near Moylan, Pa. Bruce, Harvey and Ed.

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-08012A.jpg
Date: 1908
"Red Ink" photo, series by same photographer named for red ink used for writing descriptions on reverse side of similarly-mounted images. Location uncertain. Same as P-08012B, except wider crop.

House on Upper [sic] Providence Road

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-08011.jpg
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. This is probably the house (still standing in 2021 but added onto on the north side after the photo was taken),…

Manchester Avenue, Media, Pa.

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-08010.jpg
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 Manchester Avenue from about Baltimore Avenue. The East Media School is in the right…

"Shadowland" (Park Avenue), near Media

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-08007.jpg
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. This photo was entered in The John Wanamaker Exhibition of Photographs by Amateurs, February 1908.

Houses at Duffs, Moylan, Pa.

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-08003.jpg
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.

Idlewild Hotel and Furness Cottage

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-01248B.jpg
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.

Ed and Harvey with steam tractor in quarry, Gayley Street and Park Avenue

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-01159.jpg
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. A large apartment complex now sits in the land that was once the quarry.

Group of children near bridge carrying Baltimore Pike over Ridley Creek

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-01311A.jpg
Date: 1930 (circa)
Left to right: Howard Mulholland, Cyrus Mulholland, Ann Mulholland, *Dot Sullivan (now Freeman), Sis Redding, *Dorothy Harvey (now Leonard, whose father took the photo), William Dutton Mulholland, Jr., and Arthur George Thorp, Jr. (* = only ones…

Media Free Library

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-12003B.jpg
Date: 1960 (circa)

Mrs. Gene Berry, one of the assistants at the Media Free Library

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-12003A.jpg
Date: 1960 (circa)

Media High School football team, 1928

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-15021.jpg
Date: 1928
Includes signatures of various players, including Moat, J. A. Taliaferro, Ed Smith, Dave Harris, Schaffner, John Valenti, and several illegible. Label on reverse: "Mildred D. Wilding, 3704 Taylor Ave., Drexel Hill, PA 19026"

C. Frank Williamson, Media Free Library

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-12010.jpg
Location: Media (Pa.)
Date: 1950
Williamson was a board member from the library's founding in 1901 until his death on August 21, 1955, at the age of 94, according to his August 22, 1955 obituary in the Chester Times.

Media High School Class Photo (Old High School Building)

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-03012A.jpg
Date: 1900 (circa)
The teacher with the mustache on the far right also appears in AP-8101-1 and AP-8101-2

Rebecca Smedley, Media Free Library

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-12009.jpg
Location: Media (Pa.)
Date: 1923
According to her obituary from the Chester Times, July 11, 1950, Smedley served as librarian from 1906 to 1917. She never married, and lived at 44 E. Front Street, a block from the library.

Media Rotary Club at convention in Atlantic City

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-01117.jpg
Date: 1957-04
Caption on front: District 266 Rotary International, Chalfonte Haddon Hall, Atlantic City, April 1957. On reverse: Clockwise from front: J. H. Tipping (turned to face camera), Mr. and Mrs. Paul Clark. Bill Vivian, Helen and Gunnar Jorgensen, Mrs.…

Reservoir, Springfield Water Co

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-10010.jpg
Date: 1920 (circa)
This is probably the lower pond created by the dam north of Beatty Road.