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Shoemakerville Bridge. Looking into Chester toward 24th Avenue.

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5132-1.jpg
Date: 1895-1900
This hill and bridge are on Providence Road / Route 320, as it crosses Ridley Creek, which is the border between Chester and Nether Providence. See AP-5246 for same view taken same day.

Vernon residence

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5133.jpg
Address: Not Known
Date: 1895-1900
Woman and child in carriage posed, with horse, outside. See AP-5230 and AP-5251. This may be the Vernon Farm, in Upper Providence Township, referred to in several newspaper notes.

Richard Webster and family

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5134.jpg
Date: 1895-1900
Part of glass negative missing but image mostly intact. Mr. Webster is holding a cat.

Allen’s fat cattle

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5135-1.jpg
Date: 1895-1900
Cattle are outside Allen's Market, with several men posing in the background and the storefront behind them. A sign reads: “Now is the time to engage your turkey”

Allen’s fat cattle

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5135-2.jpg
Date: 1895-1900
Cattle are outside Allen's Market, with several men posing in the background and the storefront behind them. A sign reads: “Now is the time to engage your turkey”

Allen’s fat cattle

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5135-3.jpg
Date: 1895-1900
Cattle are outside Allen's Market, with several men posing in the background and the storefront behind them. A sign reads: “Now is the time to engage your turkey”

Charter House parlor

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5136.jpg
Date: 1895-1900
Clearly shows draperies, furniture, light fixtures, and potted plants

Chadd’s Ford railroad station, woman’s room

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5138.jpg
Date: 1895-1900
Location is approximate. Shows ticket window and pot belly stove.

North Ave. row, east side, from 2nd St. to Carbon St.

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5139.jpg
Location: Media (Pa.)
Date: 1895-1900
North Avenue no longer exists. It was directly in line with South Avenue, north of the court house. These houses were demolished at some point as the court house, and then the county government center, expanded to cover the entire area from Front to…

Holl’s unfinished building

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5140.jpg
Date: 1895-1900
On State Street, north side, east of Orange St. Building under construction, with masons at work.

Warren Hannum

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5141.jpg
Location: Appleton Studio
Date: 1895-1900

Warren Hannum

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5141A.jpg
Location: Appleton Studio
Date: 1895-1900

D. T. Thatcher, sewing

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5144.jpg
Date: 1895-1900
Probably a relative (aunt?) of Deborah Thatcher Haddock Appleton, wife of photographer. Possibly in Appleton home, as this is the same wallpaper and table as in AP-4017

Chadd’s Ford railroad station, front view

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5145.jpg
Date: 1895-1900
Location is approximate.

Quinby hearse, for funerals

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5147.jpg
Date: 1895-1900
In front of business of “Mrs. A. J. Quinby & Sons, Funeral Directors." This building still stands and, in 2018, is still almost identical from the outside.

Firemen boys

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5154.jpg
Location: Media (Pa.)
Date: 1895-1900
Boys dressed in fireman hats in carriage behind a mule or donkey

Annie Haddock, sewing

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5155.jpg
Location: Media (Pa.)
Date: 1895-1900
Annie T. Haddock, sitting at a Household brand sewing machine, is listed as a dressmaker in the 1897 Media Directory. She was Deborah Appleton's sister.

Union A.M.E. Church, Interior

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5161-5.jpg
Location: Media (Pa.)
Date: 1895-1900
This photo appears to be a different building from AP-5162-1 and AP-5162-2. Frank Lees, in From Media's Past, says that the Trinity U.A.M.E Church at 420 N. Olive St., built in 1893, was originally chartered in 1839 as the United A.M.E. Church in…

C. Frank Williamson Lumber Yard, Station Road

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5164.jpg
Date: 1895-1900
Six or seven buildings, some look like dwellings. Sign reads: C. Frank Williamson, Lumber, Coal, Wood and Feed. Railroad tracks in foreground.

Engle’s bakery, southwest corner, State and Orange.

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5165.jpg
Date: 1895-1900
Sign on side of building reads: H. P. Engle Ice Cream Parlor. Signs in adjacent storefronts include Phila. Laundry, and Branch Office, Metropolitan Life Insurance Co.