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Black cat on fence

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5128-3.jpg
Location: Media (Pa.)
Date: 1895-1900
See AP-5128 for information on this circle picture.

Charter House stable

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5128-4.jpg
Date: 1895-1900
See AP-5128 for information on this circle picture.

View across fence through yard to distant houses

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5128-5.jpg
Address: Not Known
Date: 1895-1900
Possibly Media. See AP-5128 for information on this circle picture.

Dr. Harry L. Smedley, letter

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5129.jpg
Location: Media (Pa.)
Date: 1897-01-18
Photograph of Smedley's letter asking that he not be considered for the post of school director.

Flounders house

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5130.jpg
Address: Not Known
Date: 1895-1900
Probably Media

Media Ledger building, State and Jackson

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5131.jpg
Date: 1895-1900
View taken looking from above and across the intersection from a window in the old Borough Hall.

Shoemakerville Bridge. Looking across Ridley Creek into Chester.

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5132.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.

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

Friends Select School

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5137.jpg
Date: 1897 (circa)
Photograph of architectural rendering by Morgan Bunting, Architect. Building still stands on Gayley Street near Baker St. (2018). See also AP-5137, AP-5169, AP-5772.

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

Back-door neighbors

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5142.jpg
Date: 1890-1895
Deborah Appleton, the photographer's wife, and a neighbor, in back of 341 and 343 W. State St.

Back-door neighbors

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5142-1.jpg
Date: 1890-1895
Deborah Appleton, the photographer's wife, and a neighbor, in back of 341 and 343 W. State St.

Harry Appleton and Alfred Appleton, in woods near Media, Pa.

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5143.jpg
Date: 1890-1895
The photographer's sons; Stephen Appleton is presumably the man behind the camera.

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