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Railroad bridge no. 16, Markham south side

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-8234.jpg
Address: Not Known
Date: 1902-08-12
This bridge was built for the Chester Creek Branch of the Pennsylvania Railroad.

Railroad bridge no. 15, top

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-8289.jpg
Address: Not Known
Date: 1902-10-02
No. 15 might mean that this bridge was at the 15th mile from the starting point of this railroad line. In other photographs, this was measured from Philadelphia.

Railroad bridge no. 15, south

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-8291.jpg
Address: Not Known
Date: 1902-10-02
No. 15 might mean that this bridge was at the 15th mile from the starting point of this railroad line. In other photographs, this was measured from Philadelphia.

Railroad bridge no. 15, north

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-8290.jpg
Address: Not Known
Date: 1902-10-02
No. 15 might mean that this bridge was at the 15th mile from the starting point of this railroad line. In other photographs, this was measured from Philadelphia.

Railroad bridge 72 at Rockdale, top

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-8306.jpg
Location: Aston (Pa.)
Date: 1903-12-25
Probably Rockdale in Lenni, Aston Township

Railroad bridge 72 at Rockdale, south side

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-8305.jpg
Location: Aston (Pa.)
Date: 1903-12-25
Probably Rockdale in Lenni, Aston Township

Railroad bridge 72 at Rockdale, north side

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-8304.jpg
Location: Aston (Pa.)
Date: 1903-12-25
Probably Rockdale in Lenni, Aston Township

Railroad Bridge

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-04050H.jpg
Date: 1920
Caption scratched into bottom of print reads: "Bridge down over R.R. on Indian Lane." View looking east over Ridley Creek valley. One of a series of photographs, possibly by same photographer or from same album. Date not certain. Possibly from 5 x 7…

Radnor murderer in handcuffs, in County Jail, Media, Pa.

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5811.jpg
Date: 1900-1909
This unidentified man probably committed his alleged crime in Radnor Township, Pa.

Radnor Friends Meeting

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-13007.jpg
Date: 1898
Handwritten on reverse: Friends' Meeting House in Radnor, Del. Co., Pa. Built A.D. 1710, and occupied during the Revolution by soldiers Ten members of the Delaware County Institute of Science are shown in this picture. Photographed by Dr. Dickeson in…

Rachel Ann Ridley

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lemon/LE-011.jpg
Address: not known
Date: 1880 ca.
Daughter of Martha Jane Parham

Quoit pitchers

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-8141-1.jpg
Address: Not Known
Date: 1901-09
Group of Delaware County men who held an annual picnic. Also called in newspaper reports the Delaware County Quoit Pitchers Association. See also AP-8141-2.

Quoit pitchers

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-8141-2.jpg
Address: Not Known
Date: 1901-09
Group of Delaware County men who held an annual picnic. Also called in newspaper reports the Delaware County Quoit Pitchers Association. See also AP-8141-1.

Quinby’s wagon

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5091-1.jpg
Date: 1900 (circa)
Man holding horse, in front of business of “Mrs. A. J. Quinby & Sons, Funeral Directors”

Quinby’s wagon

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5091-2.jpg
Date: 1900 (circa)
Man holding horse, 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.

Quinby’s hearse, in front of funeral home

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5114.jpg
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.

Quinby wagon, for funerals

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-8142.jpg
Date: 1907-09-02
Probably behind 206 S. Orange, Media, where the Quinby Funeral Home was located.

Quinby hearse, for funerals

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5147.jpg
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.

Quinby Funeral Home, hearse

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5126-1.jpg
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.

Quinby Funeral Home

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-01185.jpg
Date: 1900-1910
Caption on reverse says "Atmore Smith," who may be driving the horse-drawn hearse. According to his obituary in the Chester Times, June 9, 1934, page 8: "S. Atmore smith "was associated for 43 years with the Quinby undertaking establishment. He was…

Quinby Funeral Home

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-01186A.jpg
Date: 1900-1910
Probably Atmore Smith driving the horse-drawn hearse.

Quinby Funeral Home

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-01186E.jpg
Date: 1900-1910
On reverse, "Thomas Quinby," who is driving the horse-drawn hearse.