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Chadd’s Ford case

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-8122-67.jpg
Date: 1900 (circa)
This photography taken in support of a legal case at this location.

Chadd’s Ford case

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-8122-75.jpg
Date: 1900 (circa)
This photography taken in support of a legal case at this location.

Scott-Harrison murder, rear

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-8123.jpg
Address: Not Known
Date: 1900-1909

Scott-Harrison murder, front

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-8124.jpg
Address: Not Known
Date: 1900-1909

Scott-Harrison murder, interior

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-8125.jpg
Address: Not Known
Date: 1900-1909
Includes pot belly stove.

Dr. George W. Bartram, copy

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-8126.jpg
Location: Media (Pa.)
Photograph of drawing or watercolor.

Shortlidge Football Team

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-8127.jpg
Location: Media (Pa.)
Date: 1900-1909
SMA stands for Shortlidge Media Academy. Swithin C. Shortlidge is the older man in the middle of the group.

Irving grave, with flowers, at Media Cemetery.

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-8128.jpg
Date: 1900-1905
Media Cemetery identified as location from Mary W. Thorn gravestone in background. This grave could be for Henry Baker Irving (died 1900) or Laura E. Irving (died 1903).

Superintendents of Public Schools of Delaware County.

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-8130-2.jpg
Location: Media (Pa.)
Date: 1890-1900
Collage of six portraits: Dr. George Smith (1854-1855); Charles W. Deans (1855-1863); James W. McCracken (1863-1868); James W. Baker (1868-1878); Albert B. Stewart (1878-1887); A. G. C. Smith, (1887- ). Individual images for each are included in…

Eddystone Trolley Case

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-8132.jpg
Date: 1900-1909
This was likely taken by Appleton in support of a legal case regarding a trolley accident.

Eddystone Trolley Case

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-8132-25.jpg
Date: 1900-1909
This was likely taken by Appleton in support of a legal case regarding a trolley accident.

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

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-8139.jpg
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

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-8140.jpg
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.