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Llanerch, railroad tracks at
Address: Llanerch, Haverford Township (Pa.)
Date: 1900 (circa)
Track workers at a railroad crossing. Location is approximate.
Stephen H. Appleton, as Worshipful Master
Location: Media (Pa.)
Date: 1890-1900
Worshipful Master is a Masonic Lodge position. The photographer wears a Masonic apron, white gloves and tuxedo with a Masonic pin on the lapel, and poses next to a certificate from the Masons on which sits his black top hat.
Mary Wilkinson
Location: Delaware County (Pa.)
Date: 1890-1900
Mary was daughter of Sarah and Edgar Wilkinson; Sarah (or Sallie) was Deborah Appleton's sister.
Bicycle boat, ashore
Date: 1890-1900
Illustrated advertising flyer for H. C. Johnson Water Cycle is included in Volume 26-2 of the Streeper Collection: "The latest Cycling novelty now in the market is the Johnson Water Cycle, which no doubt will become quite popular with all lovers of…
Fronefield houses
Address: Media (Pa.)
Date: 1890-1900
Photo shows Media Club at left, on corner of Baltimore Pike, and 205 and 207 South Avenue, to corner of Franklin St.
Quinby’s hearse, in front of funeral home
Address: 206 S. Orange St., Media (Pa.)
Date: 1890-1900
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.
Riddle's race
Date: 1894
The mill race is rejoining Chester Creek downstream of the Riddle’s Mill, near Glen Riddle. See AP-5183-2 for more information.
Ogden homestead
Date: 1890-1900
On the northwest corner of the intersection noted below, this house is still standing (2018). Henry Pearson, in Middletown Township, Delaware County, Pa. (286), claims that part of the house was built in 1681.
Deborah F. Appleton
Location: Appleton Studio
Date: 1890-1900
The photographer's wife. The negative is heavily retouched with blue paint on glass.
Sharpless, long distance view.
Address: Not Known
Date: 1889 (circa)
John Sharpless was murdered in his stable in 1885. The case dragged on until 1889, and was the most sensational in Delaware County history up to that point. These may be Appleton's retrospective photos of the scene of the crime.
Lane Quinn
Location: Appleton Studio
Date: 1895-1900
Perhaps W. Lane Quinn: William Lane Quinn, of Ridley Township
Leedom’s bridge
Address: Not Known
Date: 1895-1900
Bridge over Darby Creek near Leedom's Mill. ( Caption from a similar photgraph in the collection of the Delaware COunty Institute of Science, Cat. # 1988.2.87B) Appleton's photograph is used facing page 89 in the novel Twice Adopted, by "En Quad."…
Eagle Hotel
Date: 1898 (circa)
On sign: C. A. Beittenmiller, Proprietor. The J. B. P. Baltz Brewing Co., Lager Beer. Photograph used in the book Twice Adopted, by "En Quad" [Thomas R. Vernon]. Media, Pa.: Cooper & Vernon, Publishers, 1898, facing page 208. This novel tells the…
Quinby Funeral Home, hearse
Address: 206 S. Orange St., Media (Pa.)
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.
Brinton’s tree, Baltimore and Lemon
Date: 1895-1900
According to the 1892 map of Media, Dr. D. G. Brinton lived at the southeast corner of Baltimore Ave. and Lemon St.
Circle pictures
Location: Media (Pa.)
Date: 1895-1900
Six untitled photographs of various scenes, probably in or near Media, all shot on the same circular negative. See AP-5128-1 though -6 for individual photographs
Holl Building
Address: 217 W. State St., Media (Pa.)
Date: 1895-1900
Emil Holl ran a jewelry business at this location. See AP-5128 for information on this circle picture.
