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Media Ledger building, State and Jackson

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Date: 1895-1900
View taken looking from above and across the intersection from a window in the old Borough Hall.

Media Ledger Building, showing Media Hardware Co. and Jefferis Drugs, southwest corner of State and Jackson streets

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Date: 1972-05-07
Caption sheet says this building built on land once owned by Isaac Worrall in 1891, the same year the Media Ledger newspaper was founded.

Media Ledger building

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Date: 1898 (circa)
Photographed from upper window of Media Borough Hall

Media Laundry, front

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Date: 1950-03-28
Centennial Book 91.

Media Junior Chamber of Commerce (Jaycees). Street numbering project

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Date: 1950-03-18
Caption from Chester Times, March 30, 1950, page 5: "Media Jaycees at Work: Burgess J. Fred Schultz [with paintbrush] stencils first house number in Media Junior Chamber of Commerce curb stenciling project, one of the Jaycees' civic improvement…

Media Junior Chamber of Commerce (Jaycees). Clean Up on State Street.

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Date: 1948-05-15
Inside School Pharmacy, refreshments after the clean up. Joseph Gershenfeld, owner, behind the counter. Bud Arters may be the man in the foreground.

Media Junior Chamber of Commerce (Jaycees). Annual awards dinner

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Date: 1950-01-19
Left to right: Sam Blumberg, president, congratulating Media police chief Malcolm H. Laughead, Wilbur Duncan, Allen Fisher. Laughead received the 1949 Distinguished Award at the organizations third annual dinner, held at Howard Johnson's. (Chester…

Media Junior Chamber of Commerce (Jaycees). Annual awards dinner

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Date: 1950-01-19
Sam Blumberg presenting plaque to Media police chief Malcolm Laughead, Carley Outlander seated. Laughead received the 1949 Distinguished Award at the organization's third annual dinner, held at Howard Johnson's. (Chester Times, January 20, 1950)

Media Junior Chamber of Commerce (Jaycees)

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Address: Not Known
Date: 1949-05-26
New Board officers. Left to right: Norman Yarnall, Edwin E. Lippincott 2d (Theodore Lippincott), Robert M. Shellenberger, Jr., Samuel M. Blumberg, Jr., L. Benjamin Palmer, and John E. Houtman (Gus D. Houtman, Jr.). Names from the Chester Times, May…

Media Interfaith Council, meeting minutes

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Date: 1998-01-14
Mary Edwards spoke about developing clergy study circles to address racism in the community, and about the Unity Rally Day sponsored by the Citizens-Community Task Force.

Media Ice Plant, interior

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Address: Not Known
Date: 1893-1900

Media Hospital, northwest corner of Baltimore Avenue and Providence Road.

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Date: 1940 (circa)
The hospital, founded in 1909, moved into the former Worrall mansion (pictured here) in 1911. Copy from negative made of original photo; source not noted.

Media Hospital

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-01101B.jpg
Date: 1950 (circa)
The hospital, founded in 1909, moved into the former Worrall mansion (pictured here) in 1911. Copy of original photo; source not noted

Media Hospital

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Zimmerman/ZM-2700.jpg
Date: 1950-03-06
The hospital sat on the northwest corner of the intersection. Centennial Book 27.

Media High School: Last Parade of Band, Memorial Day 1966

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Date: 1966
The high school closed after the 1966 school year, with students moving to the new Penncrest High School in Middletown Township.

Media High School: Class of 1928 Picture, 1st Grade 1917

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Date: 1917
With identifications. Teacher is Bertie Kitson.