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Jail group
Date: 1900-1910
The staff of the Delaware County Jail, not the prisoners incarcerated in it. The jail's warden, Thomas S. Fields, is standing, fat left.
Jail group
Date: 1900-1910
The staff of the Delaware County Jail, not the prisoners incarcerated in it. The jail's warden, Thomas S. Fields, is standing, fat left.
Jacob Wendell 50th wedding anniversary, copy of photograph.
Location: Unknown
Date: 1900 (circa)
Donated by Robert M. Allam. See P-14013A for explanation. The relation of this photograph to Clyde Allam and the Allam family is unknown. Photograph marked "Studio of H. Parker Rolfe, 1305-07 Arch St., Philadelphia, Pa." The negative seems to be a…
Jackson Day Dinner, Chester Pa., 1916
Date: 1916-01-10
According to a front-page story in the Chester Times on January 11, 1916, this event, held January 10 in the Masonic Hall at 4th and Market streets, was a tribute by the local Democratic party to Andrew Jackson.
Jack Maitland, copy of painting
Location: Delaware County (Pa.)
Date: 1898 (circa)
Photograph of painting of barefoot shoeshine boy on a white marble stoop. Photograph used in the book Twice Adopted, by "En Quad." [Thomas R. Vernon]. Media, Pa., Cooper & Vernon, Publishers, 1898, facing page 104. This novel tells the story of two…
J. W. Cooper, at stone
Address: 212 W. State St., Media (Pa.)
Date: 1889 (circa)
Working in printing shop, probably the Delaware County American.
J. T. Reynolds and baby
Location: Appleton Studio
Date: 1905-03-06
Baby might be Brooke Tawney; J. T. Reynolds would have been his grandfather according to obituary. Media Directory for 1897 lists John T. Reynolds, lawyer, 10 South Ave., 344 W. Front St.
J. Nelson Rigby Funeral Home
Address: 1 W. Baltimore Ave., Media (Pa.)
Date: 1972-05-07
Caption sheet in folder says this "former residence of Mrs. Thompson" was "built on property once owned by Isaac Worrall."
J. Howard Lewis, on horse
Location: Delaware County (Pa.)
Date: 1904-08-13
Negative damaged; had been stuck to negative AP-8323-1
J. H. Sloan, Media Odorless Excavator Company
Date: 1895-1900
Probably an employee and not Sloan, the owner, at the reins of the horse. This was an early version of a septic tank cleaning service, which used vacuum pumps to remove the contents of outhouses and cesspools before a public sewer system was…
J. Fred Schultz, Media burgess (or mayor), with beard, examining Media Centennial Celebration hats in B. Gross clothing store
Address: 2 E. State St., Media (Pa.)
Date: 1950-05-06
Ben Gross (with glasses) started the store about 1920; he died in 1955. The three younger men who appear in this series of photographs are probably his sons, William, Milton, and Jack. Date on negative envelope wrong.
J. Fred Schultz, Media burgess (or mayor), with beard, examining Media Centennial Celebration hats in B. Gross clothing store
Address: 2 E. State St., Media (Pa.)
Date: 1950-05-06
Ben Gross (with glasses) started the store about 1920; he died in 1955. The three younger men who appear in this series of photographs are probably his sons, William, Milton, and Jack. Date on negative envelope wrong.
J. Fred Schultz, Media burgess (or mayor), with beard, examining Media Centennial Celebration hats in B. Gross clothing store
Address: 2 E. State St., Media (Pa.)
Date: 1950-05-06
Ben Gross (with glasses) started the store about 1920; he died in 1955. The three younger men who appear in this series of photographs are probably his sons, William, Milton, and Jack. Date on negative envelope wrong.
J. Fred Schultz, Media burgess (or mayor), with beard, examining Media Centennial Celebration hats in B. Gross clothing store
Address: 2 E. State St., Media (Pa.)
Date: 1950-05-06
Ben Gross (with glasses) started the store about 1920; he died in 1955. The three younger men who appear in this series of photographs are probably his sons, William, Milton, and Jack. Date on negative envelope wrong.
J. Fred Schultz, Media burgess (or mayor), with beard, examining Media Centennial Celebration hats in B. Gross clothing store
Address: 2 E. State St., Media (Pa.)
Date: 1950-05-06
Ben Gross (with glasses) started the store about 1920; he died in 1955. The three younger men who appear in this series of photographs are probably his sons, William, Milton, and Jack. Date on negative envelope wrong.
J. Fred Schultz, Media burgess (or mayor), with beard, examining Media Centennial Celebration hats in B. Gross clothing store
Address: 2 E. State St., Media (Pa.)
Date: 1950-05-06
Ben Gross (with glasses) started the store about 1920; he died in 1955. The three younger men who appear in this series of photographs are probably his sons, William, Milton, and Jack. Date on negative envelope wrong.