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34th Anniversary of the Howellville Baseball Club
Address: Gradyville, Edgmont Township (Pa.)
Date: 1900/06/08
Howellville was an early name for the Gradyville section of Edgmont Township. Gradyville Hotel is in the background. The men are posed in the side yard of the Gradyville Store.
Buck Tavern
Date: 1901
According to "whatwasthere.com" (accessed in January 2018), this tavern was on West Chester Pike in Marple Township and was demolished in the 1940s for a housing development. American Legion Post 805 in Broomall now occupies the site.
J. D. Pierson’s Livery, Boarding and Sales Stables
Address: 311 W. Baltimore Ave., Media (Pa.)
Date: 1901 (circa)
This business was located on the north side of Baltimore Avenue between Orange Street and South Avenue.
Railroad Wreck at Elkview, Pa., on Octorara Branch
Location: Lower Oxford (Pa. : Township)
Date: 1901-06-10
On reverse: Wreck at Elkview, Penna., June 10, 190?. Special train from New York to Lincoln University met a light engine going north from Oxford, Penna. To Philadelphia. Fireman of special train killed. Engineman William Miller still alive in West…
Porch party
Location: Delaware County (Pa.)
Date: 1901-07-09
Group of women and girls posed in front of long porch, on which sit other people. Looks to be a boarding house or hotel porch; too long for a dwelling?
W. H. Henderson, flowers
Location: Delaware County (Pa.)
Date: 1901-07-10
Henderson is buried in Media Cemetery, but the date on photo precedes Henderson’s death, as reported in the newspaper, by five weeks. Either date is wrong or this picture shows the flowers of another person.
Rowlandville railroad bridge no. 64, north side
Location: Port Deposit (Md.)
Date: 1901-07-20
Crosses Octoraro Creek in Cecil County, Maryland, close to the Susquehanna River.
