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S. Webster baby, deceased

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5206-2.jpg
Address: Not Known
Date: 1895-1900

Burmont railroad bridge, old?

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5211-1.jpg
Date: 1895-1900
This may be the bridge before the repairs or reconstruction shown in AP-5179 and AP-5180.

Rhoads baby

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5215-1.jpg
Date: 1895-1900
Could be Rhodes or Rhoades

Rhoads baby

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5215-2.jpg
Date: 1895-1900
Could be Rhodes or Rhoades

Rev. W. R. Patton

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5221.jpg
Date: 1895-1900
William R. Patton was pastor of the First Baptist Church in Media. Portrait was taken at Lothrop, 64 N. Ninth St., Philadelphia. This is a copy of a photograph.

Crook’s house

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5226.jpg
Date: 1895-1900
Henry Pearson, in Middletown Township, Delaware County, Pa. (295), writes that the Pratt/Crooks house stood opposite Cumberland Cemetery on Middletown Road (Route 352).

Cumberland Cemetery, gate and gate house

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5227.jpg
Date: 1895-1900
Beautiful ornamental ironwork in the gate.

Vernon house

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5230.jpg
Address: Not Known
Date: 1895-1900
See AP-5133 and AP-5251. This may be the Vernon Farm, in Upper Providence Township, referred to in several newspaper notes. Family posed on porch, with women playing banjo and guitar, and pets sprawled on the lawn..

Fairmount Dam

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5238.jpg
Date: 1895-1900
This view, of the Fairmount Dam and Water Works and the Callowhill St. Bridge, was taken from a boathouse ramp above the dam on the Schuylkill River. Two steamboats are moored above dam, and the roof of a bathing pavilion is visible below dam. Sewer…

Philadelphia Zoo, Reptile House

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5239.jpg
Date: 1895-1900
Beautiful leaded and stained glass.

Rowland house or Vernon house

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5240.jpg
Address: Not Known
Date: 1895-1900
A flower bed is in the foreground, with a vine-covered porch on the house. Appleton initialed this in the lower left corner.

Broomall's Dam

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5241.jpg
Date: 1895-1900
Formerly Media Swimming and Rowing Club, now Broomall's Lake Country Club

Carey’s night blooming cereus

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5243.jpg
Date: 1895-1900
1893 map of Media shows that E. Carey had a greenhouse behind his house at N. Jackson and Carbon St. so it is likely that this picture was taken at that location.

Chester Sugar Refining

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5244.jpg
Date: 1895-1900
Sign on building: “For sale, wharves and buildings. Apply to Samuel Lyons, Market Square.” Avenue of the States was formerly called Market St.

Carey’s cactus

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5245.jpg
Date: 1895-1900
1892 map of Media shows that E. Carey had a greenhouse behind his house at N. Jackson and Carbon St. so it is likely that this picture was taken at that location.

Shoemakerville Hill

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

Tuckerman children, with woman, probably mother

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5247-1.jpg
Date: 1895-1900
One boy in sailor's suit

Tuckerman children, with woman, probably mother

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5247-2.jpg
Date: 1895-1900
One boy in sailor's suit

Thomas Rufus Vernon, Sr.

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5250.jpg
Location: Appleton Studio
Date: 1895-1900
Full name from an application for Sons of the American Revolution found on findagrave.com 77996897, which gives detailed information about several generations of the Vernon family.

Vernon house, with D. A. Vernon and horse

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5251.jpg
Address: Not Known
Date: 1895-1900
Appleton's index entry is hard to decipher, but this man is definitely not D. A. Vernon, who died in 1888; this is probably D. A. Vernon's horse. Same residence and same day as in AP-5133 and AP-5230. Possibly in Upper Providence.

Clifton Road

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5252-1.jpg
Address: Not Known
Date: 1895-1900
These photographs may have been taken to document the condition of the road, for a legal case. Shows extremely rough, unpaved surface. Possibly Clifton Avenue, in Delaware County?

Clifton Road

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5252-2.jpg
Address: Not Known
Date: 1895-1900
These photographs may have been taken to document the condition of the road, for a legal case. Shows extremely rough, unpaved surface. Possibly Clifton Avenue, in Delaware County?