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South Media
Location: Nether Providence (Pa. : Township)
Date: 1900 (circa)
Caption probably added in 1959: In front of Paul's Row, Washington Ave., South Media, Pa. 1959 - Built up now nice homes for colored folks. Exact location in South Media is uncertain.
Along Crum Creek
Location: Nether Providence (Pa. : Township)
Date: 1900 (circa)
Exact location uncertain. Photo probably by Dr. William T. W. Dickeson.
Rose Valley Mill Houses
Date: 1900 (circa)
Looking south on Rose Valley Road, near intersection with Possum Hollow Road. Copy of original photo; source not noted
Edgemont Post Office, in store of “E. G. Peirce, dealer in general merchandise.”
Location: 5013 West Chester Pike, Edgmont (Pa.)
Date: 1900 (circa)
Caption on reverse reads: "Edgemont, Pa. on West Chester Pike. Car line ran from 69th St. to West Chester along West Chester Pike." Donated by Mrs. Hoyt (nee Sills), April 11, 1982. This building, which is no longer standing, was on the south side of…
Jacob Wendell 50th wedding anniversary, copy of photograph.
Location: Unknown
Date: 1900 (circa)
Donated by Robert M. Allam. See P-14013A for explanation. The relation of this photograph to Clyde Allam and the Allam family is unknown. Photograph marked "Studio of H. Parker Rolfe, 1305-07 Arch St., Philadelphia, Pa." The negative seems to be a…
Media Athletic Association Baseball Club
Location: Media (Pa.)
Date: 1900 (circa)
Two copies. Same team and same location as Appleton AP-8255. Bottom row, second from left: Matthew Fox. Top row, wearing bowtie, Albin Ottey. Other names, on reverse of one copy, include: McIntyre, H. A. Thomas, H. L. Highbarger, and Leon Baker.
Joseph W. Hawley, President, First National Bank of Media 1894-1906
Location: Media (Pa.)
Date: 1900 (circa)
This portrait and others decorated the bank's board room (see P-17026).
Pay railroad car
Address: Not Known
Date: 1900-05-15
Not sure if this means this car was rented, "for pay," by this festive, well dressed group of young adults, or if this is the car which carried pay for employees. One passenger car, marked P.W. & B. R.R. and Pennsylvania, pulled by a locomotive.
A. V. Dee, residence, 4th and Monroe, Media
Address: 400 N. Monroe St., Media (Pa.)
Date: 1900-06-02
Media 1897 Directory lists Arthur V. Dee, Salesman, house at 27 E. 4th St. Many potted plants on porch
Slap boy
Address: 341 W. State St., Media (Pa.)
Date: 1900-07-15
Barefoot African-American boy. Probably in Appleton's backyard; same arbor as in AP-4001.
Burmont railroad bridge, diagonal
Location: Clifton Heights (Pa.)
Date: 1900-08-09
Plate broken in several pieces and badly taped, scanned through mylar without cleaning. This is the bridge over Darby Creek, on the Media train line. What is now Gladstone station was then called Burmont station.
Burmont railroad bridge, top view
Location: Clifton Heights (Pa.)
Date: 1900-08-09
This is the bridge over Darby Creek, on the Media train line. What is now Gladstone station was then called Burmont station, which is visible in background.
General Charles Lewis Leiper, cemetery monument
Date: 1900-09-28
Monument dedicated May 27, 1900 in the Middletown Presbyterian Church cemetery
Sue Appleton's Christmas tree
Address: 341 W. State St., Media (Pa.)
Date: 1900-12-28
The photographer's daughter at the family's Christmas tree.