Browse Items (4670 total)

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

Looking southwest at houses on south side of Second Street between Jackson and Plum streets

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-01212.jpg
Date: 1972-05-07
Frank Lees caption: "A series of homes made into offices." The second pair of houses from the left were combined into one office building, with a single address: 14 W. 2nd Street.

Looking north on South Avenue from Jefferson Street

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-01300A.jpg
Date: 1900 (circa)
Frank Lees caption: The Delaware County Court House can be seen through the trees. A mailman rides his bicycle with the mail. The trolley tracks carried the trolley from Orange and Lincoln St. to Front Street, then on to Chester. Copy of original…

Looking north on South Avenue (now Veteran's Square) from State Street.

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Zimmerman/ZM-2657.jpg
Date: 1950-02-23
View shows Delaware County Courthouse in background

Looking north on Jackson Street, Media, Pa.

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-12022.jpg
Date: 1940 (circa)
Police Station (in north section of Borough Hall) is on far right, with the portico and façade of the Media Free Library also visible on right. Copy of original photo; source not noted

Looking east on State Street from South Avenue (now Veteran's Square).

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-01042A.jpg
Date: 1922 (circa)
Frank Lees caption: "This view, dated about 1922, is a view looking east on State Street at South Avenue. Robinson & Crawford grocery store is on the corner, in the original store building built in Media in the early 1850s. Although Robinson and…

Looking east on State Street from South Avenue (now Veteran's Square)

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-01259.jpg
Date: 1947
State Cut Rate Store and Snowden's are the first two buildings on the left (north) side of the street, and the First National Bank is the first building on the south side. The tall tower sits atop the old Media Borough Hall, at Jackson Street, which…

Looking east on State Street at Olive Street, with trolley

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-01090.jpg
Date: 1920 (circa)
Frank Lees caption: This shows the big red car of the Philadelphia and West Chester Traction Company, headed towards Upper Darby. The store on the corner was a candy store. The store on the left is Major's Plumbing Shop. Copy of original photo;…

Looking east at the south side of State Street, from east of Olive Street to Jackson Street

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-01365A.jpg
Date: 1931-01
This photograph was taken by Edward V. Streeper Jr. in January 1931, and removed from one of his scrapbooks. A modern enlargement was made from his original negative, also enclosed, with a vintage print. Streeper's identifications of the buidligns…

Looking across South Avenue

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-01013G.jpg
Date: 1906 (circa)
A winter scene. This is probably in the hilly section of South Avenue south of the railroad tracks, in Upper Providence Township.

Llanerch, railroad tracks at

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5105.jpg
Date: 1900 (circa)
Track workers at a railroad crossing. Location is approximate.

Lizzie Redmon

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5373.jpg
Location: Appleton Studio
Date: 1903 (circa)
Elizabeth Horne Redmon, wife of George Redmon

Little boy in jail, Pete

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5324-2.jpg
Date: 1905-08-02
This is probably a little boy named Pete, not Pete Little.

Lindsay ruins

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-4110.jpg
Address: Not Known
Date: 1890-1900
Rubble in a field; looks to be the ruins of a barn; another building is visible in the nearby woods.

Lima Methodist Episcopal Church

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-4109.jpg
Date: 1890-1900
The building, somewhat altered, still stands (2018).

Lilly Pike, full length, wearing cap and gown

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5807.jpg
Location: Appleton Studio
Date: 1900-1909
This is likely Lillian Mae Pike, who married Harry Appleton in 1912.

Lilly Pike, bust, wearing cap and gown

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5806.jpg
Location: Appleton Studio
Date: 1900-1909
This is likely Lillian Mae Pike, who married Harry Appleton in 1912.

Lilly Devoe

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5341.jpg
Location: Appleton Studio
Date: 1902-04-29
Clarence Devoe and Lilly or Lillie May Redmon were married April 19, 1902. Either these photos were taken 10 days after the wedding of the photographer recorded the date incorrectly in his index. See other photos of this couple in this collection.

Lillie Devoe, panel

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-8221.jpg
Location: Appleton Studio
Date: 1902-04-29
Clarence Devoe and Lilly or Lillie May Redmon were married April 19, 1902. Either these photos were taken 10 days after the wedding of the photographer recorded the date incorrectly in his index. See other photos of this couple in this collection.

Lillie Devoe, large head

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-8220.jpg
Location: Appleton Studio
Date: 1902-04-29
Clarence Devoe and Lilly or Lillie May Redmon were married April 19, 1902. Either these photos were taken 10 days after the wedding of the photographer recorded the date incorrectly in his index. See other photos of this couple in this collection.

Lillian Johnson

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5598.jpg
Location: Appleton Studio
Date: 1905-12-08

Lewis Tree Surgeons Co., truck line up.

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Zimmerman/ZM-2760.jpg
Date: 1950-04-02
Made for Lewis ad, Centennial Book 78.

Lewis Tree Surgeons Co., sign

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Zimmerman/ZM-2761.jpg
Date: 1950-04-02
Airbrushed copy negative. Made for Lewis ad, Centennial Book 78.