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Media Borough Hall

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5192-1.jpg
Date: 1893-1900
This building was torn down as part of an urban renewal project in Media, in the late 1960s. Media Fire Hook & Ladder Co. No. 1 occupied the first floor of the building.

Media Ice Plant, interior

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5193.jpg
Address: Not Known
Date: 1893-1900

Charles Realey, as a baby

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5194.jpg
Location: Media (Pa.)
Date: 1900 (circa)
The photographer's nephew.

Charles Realey, as a baby

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5195.jpg
Location: Media (Pa.)
Date: 1901 (circa)
The photographer's nephew.

Charles Summerville

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5196.jpg
Location: Appleton Studio
Date: 1899-12-02

Rhoads family

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5197.jpg
Date: 1895-1900

Blizzard, Feb. 1899

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5198-2.jpg
Date: 1899-02
Looking east from Appleton house at 341 W. State St.

Matheus Grave, with floral decorations, 1895

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5199.jpg
Address: Not Known
Date: 1895
Fresh grave, with floral decoration reading 'Baby" - appears to be in open field, not in public cemetery

Griscom, children and goat

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5200.jpg
Date: 1895-1900
Appleton, in his index, misidentified this dog as a goat.

Rorer’s store

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5201-1.jpg
Date: 1895-1900
Photo includes other buildings on either side of the store, at the southeast corner of Baltimore Pike and Orange St. Similar to and probably used as basis for engraving in “Media, Penna.” publication, 1889, p. 29. All the buildings in this photograph…

Burdsall & Adams, cigar manufacturer

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5202-1.jpg
Date: 1895-1900
Similar to photograph in “Media, Penna.” publication, 1889, p. 35

Media Republican Club, and office of Dr. S. A. Beal

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5203-1.jpg
Date: 1895-1900
Buildings still standing as of 2018

Old House, combination. Media’s Original farmhouses: Dr. Joseph. Rowland, James Esrey, Elizabeth Way, and John Hill.

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5204.jpg
Location: Media (Pa.)
Date: 1895-1900
Used in Semi-centennial booklet, composite of negatives AP-4152, AP-4169, AP-4243, and AP-4049

S. Webster baby, deceased

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5206-1.jpg
Address: Not Known
Date: 1895-1900

S. Webster baby, deceased

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

Upper Darby stiff, deceased

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5207.jpg
Date: 1894 (circa)
From envelope: C. E. Danne or Hanne. Without hat.

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.

Media Fire Company No. 1, fire hose carriage, old

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5212.jpg
Date: 1892 (circa)
Original post office, located at Plum and State, is on right. Highbarger & Lynch Furniture, "on State St. near Plum," on left. Modern prints in Photo Folder 7053, captioned by Frank Lees: “Media’s first fire house and first piece of fire equipment is…

Media Baseball Club

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

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

T. Elwood Allison residence

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5216-2.jpg
Date: 1900
Originally called Cony Meade or Conny Meade, this 40-room mansion was later known as "the Castle." It burned in 1981.

Ball & Rhodes yard

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5217.jpg
Date: 1895 (circa)