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Patron, a horse

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Address: Not Known
Date: 1901 (circa)

Golf Club grounds

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-8139.jpg
Date: 1901-07-25
This may be the golf club built on the Rowland Farm property; the club later moved to Nether Providence Township and is now the Springhaven Country Club. The half-hidden house in the distance appears to be the Rowland farmhouse (compare to…

Buck Tavern

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-8138.jpg
Date: 1901
According to "whatwasthere.com" (accessed in January 2018), this tavern was on West Chester Pike in Marple Township and was demolished in the 1940s for a housing development. American Legion Post 805 in Broomall now occupies the site.

Railroad bridge no. 23, Brinton’s Trestle, Road arch

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-8137.jpg
Address: Not Known
Date: 1901-07-17

Railroad bridge no. 23, Brinton’s Trestle, diagonal

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-8135-25.jpg
Address: Not Known
Date: 1901-07-17

Railroad bridge no. 23, Brinton’s Trestle, diagonal

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-8135.jpg
Address: Not Known
Date: 1901-07-17

Railroad bridge no. 23, Brinton’s Trestle, top

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-8134.jpg
Address: Not Known
Date: 1901-07-17

Eddystone Trolley Case

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-8132-5.jpg
Date: 1900-1909
Shows church at 9th and Sayville in Eddystone, with trolley No.16 of the Chester Traction Co. This was likely taken by Appleton in support of a legal case regarding a trolley accident. A large factory is in the background.

Eddystone Trolley Case

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-8132-25.jpg
Date: 1900-1909
This was likely taken by Appleton in support of a legal case regarding a trolley accident.

Eddystone Trolley Case

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-8132.jpg
Date: 1900-1909
This was likely taken by Appleton in support of a legal case regarding a trolley accident.

Superintendents of Public Schools of Delaware County.

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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…

First Baptist Church, with inset of Rev. W. D. Thatcher

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-8129.jpg
Date: 1900

Irving grave, with flowers, at Media Cemetery.

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Date: 1900-1905
Media Cemetery identified as location from Mary W. Thorn gravestone in background. This grave could be for Henry Baker Irving (died 1900) or Laura E. Irving (died 1903).

Shortlidge Football Team

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-8127.jpg
Location: Media (Pa.)
Date: 1900-1909
SMA stands for Shortlidge Media Academy. Swithin C. Shortlidge is the older man in the middle of the group.

Dr. George W. Bartram, copy

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-8126.jpg
Location: Media (Pa.)
Photograph of drawing or watercolor.

Scott-Harrison murder, interior

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Address: Not Known
Date: 1900-1909
Includes pot belly stove.

Scott-Harrison murder, front

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-8124.jpg
Address: Not Known
Date: 1900-1909

Scott-Harrison murder, rear

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-8123.jpg
Address: Not Known
Date: 1900-1909

Chadd’s Ford case

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-8122-75.jpg
Date: 1900 (circa)
This photography taken in support of a legal case at this location.

Chadd’s Ford case

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-8122-67.jpg
Date: 1900 (circa)
This photography taken in support of a legal case at this location.

Elkview railroad bridge, Painters at

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-8119.jpg
Date: 1900 (circa)
Includes farm landscape behind the workmen.

Maria Fussell, copy

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-8117.jpg
Photograph of drawing or watercolor.

Henry Fussell, copy

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-8116.jpg

Young flowers

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Address: Not Known
Date: 1900 (circa)
Flowers spell "Sister". Deceased person in coffin.

Bland-Sewell murder, looking north on S. Orange Street, Media, Pa., at bridge over railroad

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-8111.jpg
Date: 1898 (circa)
Pete Bland murdered Samuel Sewell near the Media Train Station on July 16, 1898. Bland was never apprehended. Plate very dark.