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Bickley family

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Date: 1898-04-20

Peach Bottom railroad engine, L.O.& S.R.R.

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Date: 1900 (circa)
Location is approximate. LO&SRR stands for Lancaster, Oxford and Southern Rail Road

Charter House dining room

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Date: 1900 (circa)
With flowers on one table.

Media police

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Location: Media (Pa.)
Date: 1891-09-21
Chief of police flanked by four officers, including one whom is African-American. Names, according to Frank Lees, in From Media's Past (45), are Hoopes, Rodenboh [probably Rodenbaugh], Chief McKniff, Sherlock, and Turner. Lees says the picture was…

Webster store, interior

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Date: 1900 (circa)
P. L. Webster sold butter and eggs at this location in 1900. Media 1897 Directory lists: Pennell L. Webster, Milk, 109 W. State, House, same

Providence Meeting House

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Date: 1900 (circa)
Stephen Appleton is sitting on the wall.

Providence Meeting House

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Date: 1900 (circa)
Stephen Appleton is sitting on the wall.

Quinby’s wagon

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Date: 1900 (circa)
Man holding horse, in front of business of “Mrs. A. J. Quinby & Sons, Funeral Directors”

Quinby’s wagon

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Date: 1900 (circa)
Man holding horse, 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.

Middletown Presbyterian Church, interior

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Date: 1900 (circa)
The small building pictured was remodeled and absorbed into the larger church and Sunday School complex now on this site.

Cat. Pussy and kittens, old mother cat and kittens

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Location: Media (Pa.)
Date: 1890-1900
Probably an Appleton family pet.

Union Hotel, S. H. Serrill

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Address: Not Known
Date: 1890-1900
Newspaper lists this as Linwood (1886) and Marcus Hook and vicinity (1902): "located at the Cross Roads, Linwood". I think this is the same place. See AP-5223 for close-up of Elsie Serrill and child on this porch.

James Clark

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Location: Appleton Studio
Date: 1890-1900

D. A. Vernon

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Date: 1890-1900
Copy of an original portrait (either a photograph, drawing, or engraving); the original is signed E. J. Willcox, 1889. David Ashbridge Vernon was one of the founders of the Delaware County American. He died in 1888.

Mrs. T. R. Vernon at the piano

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Date: 1890-1900
Blanche Knight married Thomas Rufus Vernon, Sr. in 1880. Se AP-5262 for the Vernon family posed around this piano.

Media Baseball Club, 1897

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Location: Media (Pa.)
Date: 1897

Samuel Johnson death warrant, certificate, William F. Mathues, Sherriff

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Location: Media (Pa.)
Date: 1889 (circa)
Samuel Johnson was accused of the murder of John Sharpless and sat in the Media Jail awaiting death by hanging for several years before his sentence was commuted to life in prison. Appleton probably photographed this 1886 document several years after…

Media Post Office, interior. State and Plum, ca. 1905

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Date: 1905 (circa)
Furnishings "Designed and manufactured by the I. B. Williams Co., Seward, Nebraska"