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Media Free Library, studies for a possible addition

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-12026A.jpg
Date: 1930 (circa)
Light penciled extension added to the roofline. The rear of Media Borough Hall is on the right.

Media Free Library, studies for a possible addition

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-12026B.jpg
Date: 1930 (circa)
P-12026A overdrawn with proposed second-floor addition. The rear of Media Borough Hall is on the right.

Media Free Library, studies for a possible addition

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-12026C.jpg
Date: 1930 (circa)
Roof details, viewed from fire escape on Media Borough Hall building, looking northwest to west side of Jackson Street

Media Free Library, studies for a possible addition

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-12026D.jpg
Date: 1930 (circa)
Roof details, viewed from fire escape on Media Borough Hall building, looking north to back of house on southeast corner of Jackson and Front streets

Media Furniture Store

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Zimmerman/ZM-2809.jpg
Date: 1950
"Airbrushed copy negative. Made for owner Sadir Elias's ad" in the Centennial Book 106. This building still (2020 ) stands, occupying the front and side yard of a much older Victorian twin that looms behind it.

Media Future Forum Luncheon at the Towne House Restaurant

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-01156.jpg
Date: 1975 (circa)
Frank Lees caption: Left to right, standing: ?, Jim Loughrin, Willis Glen, Joseph Krug, Frank Ferguson. Seated: Esther Bell, ?, Mr. D'Ignazio. Envelope includes 35 mm negative strip with four other photos.

Media Garage, 34 E. State Street

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-01235.jpg
Date: 1950 (circa)
Sign for DeYoung Motors in left window.

Media garbage truck

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-01440.jpg
Location: Media (Pa.)
Date: 1950-1960
Label on truck door reads: Borough of Media, Plant No. 1, Permit No. 699, T.W. 22460. The truck is an International Fleetstar 210, with a Cobey garbage hopper mounted on the chassis. An oversized copy of his print is stored in Misc. Photos Box 2

Media high railroad bridge

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-8307.jpg
Date: 1903-11-01
View looking south from bridge showing Water Works, covered bridge at Baltimore Pike and view up the Ridley Creek valley. A trolley line crosses the creek in front of the covered bridge.

Media high railroad bridge

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-8307-5.jpg
Date: 1903-11-02
View looking south from bridge showing Water Works, covered bridge at Baltimore Pike, and view up the Ridley Creek valley. A trolley line crosses the creek in front of the covered bridge.

Media high railroad bridge, diagonal

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-8066A.jpg
Date: 1900 (circa)
Locomotive 177, pulling three passenger cars; stopped on bridge. Probably "P.W.&B. R.R. " [Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad]

Media high railroad bridge, diagonal

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-8066B.jpg
Date: 1900 (circa)
Locomotive 177, pulling three passenger cars; stopped on bridge. Probably "P.W.&B. R.R." [Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad]

Media high railroad bridge, old

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5016-1.jpg
Location: Media (Pa.)
Date: 1898 (circa)
Same view as AP-4114. Trestle on SEPTA Media Elwyn Line, crossing Ridley Creek

Media high railroad bridge, side

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-8067.jpg
Date: 1900 (circa)
Locomotive 177, pulling three passenger cars; stopped on bridge. Shows original stone piers for bridge, the supports of which are steel in this photo.

Media high railroad bridge, top

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-8068.jpg
Date: 1900 (circa)
Looking northwest; shows Elwyn Institute buildings in distance

Media High School

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-01434.jpg
Date: 1880 (circa)
Thanks to Sam Lemon for helping identify this former "mystery" photograph. The image appears, as an engraving, on early Media High School diplomas.

Media High School

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-03026.jpg
Date: 1900 (circa)
Class is not identified. The man with the mustache, possibly the school's principal, appears in several other photos.

Media High School

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Zimmerman/ZM-2937.jpg
Date: 1949-05-01
Centennial Book 62.

Media High School

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Zimmerman/ZM-2938.jpg
Date: 1949-05-01
Negative damaged