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Eddystone Trolley Case

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-8132-5.jpg
Date: 1900-1909
Shows church at 9th and Sayville in Eddystone, with trolley No.16 of the Chester Traction Co. This was likely taken by Appleton in support of a legal case regarding a trolley accident. A large factory is in the background.

Buck Tavern

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-8138.jpg
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.

Golf Club grounds

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Date: 1901-07-25
This may be the golf club built on the Rowland Farm property; the club later moved to Nether Providence Township and is now the Springhaven Country Club. The half-hidden house in the distance appears to be the Rowland farmhouse (compare to…

Patron, a horse

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Address: Not Known
Date: 1901 (circa)

Quoit pitchers

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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 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.

Rowlandville railroad bridge no. 64, north side

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-8143.jpg
Date: 1901-07-20
Crosses Octoraro Creek in Cecil County, Maryland, close to the Susquehanna River.

Media Fire Company hose carriage

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-8146.jpg
Date: 1901-10-02
Photographed on the State St side of the old Borough Hall, which housed the fire company on the first floor. A memorial portrait for William McKinley, recently assassinated, hangs in the doorway of the Media Free Library, which had space upstairs.…

Roland Evans family

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Location: Appleton Studio
Date: 1901-09-28
Date is probably a year or so off. Children have different haircuts and are slightly older than they are in AP-8147-5 and AP-8147-75, which have same date.

Roland Evans family

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-8147-5.jpg
Location: Appleton Studio
Date: 1901-09-28

Roland Evans family

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-8147-75.jpg
Location: Appleton Studio
Date: 1901-09-28

Robinson will, last page

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-8148-1.jpg
Location: Media (Pa.)
Date: 1901-10-05
This was photographed for a legal case contesting the will of Letitia Robinson.

Brinton's tomb

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-8149.jpg
Date: 1901 (circa)
Brinton, Daniel Garrison, 1837-1899, his tomb in Media Cemetery.

Brinton's tomb

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-8149-75.jpg
Date: 1901-10-24
Brinton, Daniel Garrison, 1837-1899, his tomb in Media Cemetery.

Media Fire Company, parading in front of Charter House

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-8150-1.jpg
Date: 1901-10-02
Firemen in uniform; onlookers include numerous children; Charter House willows in full leaf.

Media Fire Company, parading in front of Charter House

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-8150-2.jpg
Date: 1901-10-02
Firemen in uniform; onlookers include numerous children; Charter House willows in full leaf.

West Chester railroad crossing, view from roadway

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-8151.jpg
Date: 1901-10-23
West Chester, Pennsylvania, visible in background.