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Elsie Serrill
Location: Marcus Hook (Pa.)
Date: 1890-1900
Woman and young girl, on porch of Union Hotel. See AP-5097 for full view of the hotel.
Superintendents of Public Schools of Delaware County.
Location: Media (Pa.)
Date: 1890-1900
Collage of six portraits: Dr. George Smith (1854-1855); Charles W. Deans (1855-1863); James W. McCracken (1863-1868); James W. Baker (1868-1878); Albert B. Stewart (1878-1887); A. G. C. Smith, (1887- ). Individual images for each are included in…
Chalfant’s Livery Stable, northwest corner of State and Jackson streets
Date: 1890-1900
Frank Lees dated this as 1915 (Circa), but it is probably older. Copy of original photo; source not noted
Sallie Orr
Location: Media (Pa.)
Date: 1890-1900
The caption reads: "Wife of Hugh Brannin, N. Orange St.," though this marriage must have occurred years after this photo was taken.
Oxen team drawing wagon at northeast corner, Front and Orange streets
Date: 1890-1900
Delaware County Court House is in background. African-American man is tending the four oxen. Two children look on in the background.
Miller House
Address: 301 N. Jackson St., Media (Pa.)
Date: 1890-1900
Property of William H. Miller. For similar, see AP-4127. Copy of original photo; source not noted
Van L. Wolf, Light Wagon Builder, Carriage Builder
Location: Media (Pa.)
Date: 1890-1910
The 1900 Semi-Centennial pamphlet, page 83, locates this business at State and Jackson streets. A photocopy of an undated advertisement in this photo folder locates it at "Cor. State & Plum Sts., Media." The 1882 map of Media shows a carriage…
Mancill Bridge, covered, over Ridley Creek
Date: 1891 (circa)
Photo taken on same day as AP-4121: see case and coat in foreground of each. See Photo Folder 5036 with prints of these negatives, one dated Nov. 1891.
Dr. Frances Baker home in snowstorm
Address: 323 W. State St., Media (Pa.)
Date: 1891 (circa)
Baker was the wife of James W. Baker, pictured at AP-5051.
William H. Ridley
Address: Media (Pa.)
Date: 1891 ca.
In this group photograph of members of the Delaware County Bar Association, William H. Ridley is in the second row, 5th from left.
Media police
Location: Media (Pa.)
Date: 1891-09-21
Chief of police flanked by four officers, including one whom is African-American. Names, according to Frank Lees, in From Media's Past (45), are Hoopes, Rodenboh [probably Rodenbaugh], Chief McKniff, Sherlock, and Turner. Lees says the picture was…
Mancill’s Mill, Media Water Works
Date: 1891-11
Photo taken on same day as AP-4126; see case and coat in foreground of each image. Photo Folder 5036 has prints, one of them dated Nov. 1891. The Media high railroad bridge Is in background.
Stephen H. Appleton, hand press
Address: 212 W. State St., Media (Pa.)
Date: 1892
In print shop making posters, probably the Delaware County American office. A helper, probably Charles Haddock, is also in the picture; see AP-4099 for another picture of Haddock. Posters, probably work samples, hang on the wall.
