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Media high railroad bridge, diagonal

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-8066A.jpg
Date: 1900 (circa)
Locomotive 177, pulling three passenger cars; stopped on bridge. Probably "P.W.&B. R.R. " [Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad]

Media high railroad bridge, diagonal

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-8066B.jpg
Date: 1900 (circa)
Locomotive 177, pulling three passenger cars; stopped on bridge. Probably "P.W.&B. R.R." [Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad]

Media high railroad bridge, side

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-8067.jpg
Date: 1900 (circa)
Locomotive 177, pulling three passenger cars; stopped on bridge. Shows original stone piers for bridge, the supports of which are steel in this photo.

Media high railroad bridge, top

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-8068.jpg
Date: 1900 (circa)
Looking northwest; shows Elwyn Institute buildings in distance

Wawa railroad bridge, south side over Chester Creek

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-8069.jpg
Date: 1900 (circa)
Location is approximate. Bridge crossed Chester Creek; station stood south of Baltimore Pike near Station Rd. in Chester Heights, Pa.

Wawa railroad bridge, north side

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-8070.jpg
Date: 1900 (circa)
Location is approximate. Bridge crossed Chester Creek; station stood south of Baltimore Pike near Station Rd. in Chester Heights, Pa.

Wawa railroad bridge, top

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-8071.jpg
Date: 1900 (circa)
Location is approximate. Bridge crossed Chester Creek; station stood south of Baltimore Pike near Station Rd. in Chester Heights, Pa.

Cornboilers 1899

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-8075.jpg
Address: Not Known
Date: 1899
A group of Delaware County men who held an annual picnic. The photographer is straddling the bench at the end of the right hand table, with a large mustache, straw hat, and suspenders.

Cornboilers 1900

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-8076.jpg
Address: Not Known
Date: 1900
A group of Delaware County men who held an annual picnic.

First National Bank, new, before completion

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-8077.jpg
Date: 1900 (circa)
Building still under construction. Sign reads: R. C. Ballinger & Co., Builders, 218 N. 13th St. (Philadelphia). Piano store also in photo, to left of bank.

34th Anniversary of the Howellville Baseball Club

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-8078.jpg
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.

General Charles Lewis Leiper, cemetery monument

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-8079.jpg
Date: 1900-09-28
Monument dedicated May 27, 1900 in the Middletown Presbyterian Church cemetery

Elwyn Training School donkey

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-8080.jpg
Date: 1900 (circa)
Donkey pulling cart holding barrel.

Albert Stewart, copy

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-8081.jpg
Date: 1900 (circa)
County Schools Superintendent. See composite photograph AP-8130-2

A. G. C. Smith, copy

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-8082-5.jpg
Date: 1900 (circa)
County Schools Superintendent. See composite photograph AP-8130-2

James W. McCracken, copy

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-8083-2.jpg
Date: 1900 (circa)
County Schools Superintendent. See composite photograph AP-8130-2

Charles W. Deans, copy

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-8084-1.jpg
County Schools Superintendent. See composite photograph AP-8130-2

Michener's Media Ice Company, cart of 1850s for parade,

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-8087.jpg
Date: 1900
This was a float in Media's 1900 Semi-Centennial celebration. Written on cart: “No one cares for me.” This company was later known as the Media Coal and Ice Co.

A. V. Dee, residence, 4th and Monroe, Media

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Date: 1900-06-02
Media 1897 Directory lists Arthur V. Dee, Salesman, house at 27 E. 4th St. Many potted plants on porch