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Matthew Ash, flowers

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5156-5.jpg
Address: Not Known
Date: 1892

Media Base Ball Club of 1895

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5158.jpg
Location: Media (Pa.)
Date: 1895-10-05
Same team as in AP-5159. See PH-15036 for a print with the players identified.

Media Base Ball Club of 1895

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5159.jpg
Location: Media (Pa.)
Date: 1895-10-05
Same team as in AP-5158. See PH-15036 for a print with the players identified.

Media Base Ball Club of 1895

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5159-1.jpg
Location: Media (Pa.)
Date: 1895 (circa)
May be 1892. Same team as in AP-5214

St. David's Episcopal Church, Radnor

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5160.jpg
Date: 1898 (circa)
The church is surrounded by a cemetery. Photograph used in the book Twice Adopted, by "En Quad" [Thomas R. Vernon]. Media, Pa.: Cooper & Vernon, Publishers, 1898, facing page 192. This novel tells the story of two adopted children in Media who grow…

St. David's Episcopal Church, Radnor

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5160-5.jpg
Date: 1898 (circa)
The church is surrounded by a cemetery. Photograph used in the book Twice Adopted, by "En Quad" [Thomas R. Vernon]. Media, Pa.: Cooper & Vernon, Publishers, 1898, facing page 192. This novel tells the story of two adopted children in Media who grow…

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…

Union A.M.E. Church, interior

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5162-1.jpg
Location: Media (Pa.)
Date: 1897-01-08
This photo like a different building from AP-5161-1 and AP-5116-2. 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 Marple…

Union A.M.E. Church, interior

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5162-2.jpg
Location: Media (Pa.)
Date: 1897-01-08
This photo is the same building as AP-5162-1 and but different from AP-5161-5. Frank Lees, in From Media's Past (52), 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.…

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.

Woodmen

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5166.jpg
Date: 1895-1900
Probably at C. Frank Williamson’s lumber yard, near railroad station in Media. Scene includes railroad flatbed cars loaded with lumber, woodsmen with axes, and huge uncut tree trunks with bark still attached.

Schuchardt store or barber shop and J. Sweeny Shoe Store

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5167.jpg
Date: 1895-1900
According to 1897 Media Directory, George Schuchardt had a barber shop at this location. Tall barber pole in front, and horse hitching post. At 124 S. Orange, sign in window reads: J. Sweeny Shoe Store.

Schuchardt store or barber shop and J. Sweeny Shoe Store

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5167-5.jpg
Date: 1895-1900
According to 1897 Media Directory, George Schuchardt had a barber shop at this location.

Boyer’s store

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5168.jpg
Date: 1895-1900
On sign: “Boyer & Co. Up to Date Store. Ladies and Gents Furnishings”

Boyer’s store

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5168-5.jpg
Date: 1895-1900
On sign: “Boyer & Co. Up to Date Store. Ladies and Gents Furnishings”

Friends Select School, Gayley and Baker

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5169.jpg
Date: 1897
Building still stands on Gayley Street near Baker St. (2018). See also AP-5137, AP-5169-5, AP-5772, AP-4081.

Friends Select School, Gayley and Baker

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5169-5.jpg
Date: 1897
Building still stands on Gayley Street near Baker St. (2018). See also AP-5137, AP-5169, AP-5772, AP-4081.

Delaware County American, office staff

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5170.jpg
Date: 1905 (circa)
Cord for shutter release visible in the photographer's hand.

P. W. Ware’s plumbing store

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5171-2.jpg
Date: 1895-1900
Signs read: P. W. Ware, Hot Water Heating, Sanitary Plumbing. Plumbing, Heaters. Media Ledger building to the left.

Angora railroad bridge

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5173.jpg
Date: 1895 (circa)
Location is approximate. This bridge crossed a small stream called Thomas Run or Ameaseka Run, in West Philadelphia. The stream was buried in a sewer by the early 20th century and the railroad now crosses this valley at grade.