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Pearl Street between Orange and Lemon streets, looking west
Address: 300 W. Pearl St., Media (Pa.)
Date: 1972
No similar buildings now exist on this block; many small buildings along this stretch were torn down to make parking lots and parking spaces.
Pearl Street between Orange and Lemon streets
Date: 1900 (circa)
This information is from Frank Lees folder caption. No information was found on the reverse of the photograph.
Peach Bottom, steamboat or steamer, on the Susquehanna river
Location: Peach Bottom (Pa.)
Date: 1895-1900
Peach Bottom railroad engine, L.O.& S.R.R.
Location: Peach Bottom (Pa.)
Date: 1900 (circa)
Location is approximate. LO&SRR stands for Lancaster, Oxford and Southern Rail Road
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.
Paul L. Clark, Media Borough Secretary
Date: 1967 (circa)
Frank Lees caption: "Office in old library building at Jackson and Jasper streets, prior to moving to borough hall at 2 W. Jackson Street"
Patterson patent farm machinery, “Deering Ideal”
Location: Delaware County (Pa.)
Date: 1895-1900
Label on machine reads: Patterson Oats Swather. Man'f'd by A. P. Patterson, Lansdowne, Del. Co., Pa. Patented June 16, 94, May 3, 97.
Patterson machine, parts
Location: Delaware County (Pa.)
Date: 1905 (circa)
Appear to be parts for oats gleaner pictured in AP-8355
Patterson machine
Location: Delaware County (Pa.)
Date: 1905 (circa)
Label on machine reads: Patterson Oats Gleaner, patented 9-27-04
Pastime Theatre
Address: 215 W. State St., Media (Pa.)
Date: 1900-1912
On reverse: Prior to 1913. According to Frank Lees, the theater operated until 1927.
Past and present borough officials of Media, Pa., assembled in front of Delaware County Court House
Date: 1950-04-29
No identifications on negative envelope. Left to right, Bottom: Walter L. Rhodes, Crosby L. Smith, ?, J. Fred Schultz. Middle: ? (man behind Schultz's right shoulder). Top: Walter Strine, Paul Clark, Gus G. D. Houtman, ?, J. Orval Mancill, Frank…
Past and present borough officials of Media, Pa., assembled in front of Delaware County Court House
Date: 1950-04-29
No identifications on negative envelope. Left to right, Bottom: Walter L. Rhodes, Crosby L. Smith, ?, J. Fred Schultz. Middle: ? (man behind Schultz's right shoulder). Top: Walter Strine, Paul Clark, Gus G. D. Houtman, ?, J. Orval Mancill, Frank…
Paoli monument
Date: 1895 (circa)
Monument memorializes the Battle of Paoli, fought Sept. 20, 1777. It still stands in Malvern, PA, in Paoli Battlefield Historical Park.
Paoli monument
Date: 1895 (circa)
Monument memorializes the Battle of Paoli, fought Sept. 20, 1777. Still stands in Malvern, PA, in Paoli Battlefield Historical Park. Two bicyclists pose in the picture, probably Harry and Albert Appleton, the photographer's sons.
Panama Canal Zone, view of buzzards
Location: Panama (Panama)
Date: 1907-04-17
One of a series of photographs of Panama Canal construction and scenery by W. R. Newbold, Jr., of Media. Original caption: Panama City is quite thickly populated. This represents a view from my dining room early morning. They are real buzzards.