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Isaac Miller, trees

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-8371-75.jpg
Date: 1906-1907
Miller house at the northeast corner of W. Front St. and N. Olive St.

Ivy Mills

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5062.jpg
Date: 1890-1900
A few walls of this 1829 factory, in ruins even when Appleton photographed it, still stand (2018) as part of the Ivy Mills National Historic District, in Concord Township. The ruins of the former paper mill, built by the Willcox family, are located…

Ivy-covered ruins

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-9076.jpg
Address: Not Known
Date: 1900-1908
Looks to have once been a large factory or mill building. Possibly related to Ivy Mills; see AP-5062.

J. B. Robinson's boy, copy

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5310-1.jpg
Date: 1901-10-24
Boy wearing sailor's suit. Original photo from Gutekunst, 712 Arch St., Philadelphia

J. C. Beatty, copy

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5713.jpg
Photograph of original artwork signed by W. H. Michener

J. D. Chalfant's Livery Stables

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Zimmerman/ZM-3074.jpg
Date: 1890 ca.
This is Zimmerman's copy of an old photograph, which is not dated but could be ca. 1890. The business stood on the northwest corner of State Street and Jackson Street.

J. D. Pierson’s Livery, Boarding and Sales Stables

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-01067A.jpg
Date: 1900 (circa)
This business was located on the north side of Baltimore Avenue between Orange Street and South Avenue. Also in picture is a horse-drawn wagon with the sign: "Ingram Bros. Wagon Builders"

J. D. Pierson’s Livery, Boarding and Sales Stables

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-01067B.jpg
Date: 1901 (circa)
This business was located on the north side of Baltimore Avenue between Orange Street and South Avenue.

J. E. Quinby, Knight Templar

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-8326.jpg
Date: 1904-09-10
According to Media 1897 Directory, this may be Joseph E. Quinby.

J. Edward Smith

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5823.jpg
Location: Appleton Studio
Date: 1905-1909

J. Fred Schultz, Media burgess (or mayor), with beard, examining Media Centennial Celebration hats in B. Gross clothing store

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Zimmerman/ZM-2947.jpg
Date: 1950-05-06
Ben Gross (with glasses) started the store about 1920; he died in 1955. The three younger men who appear in this series of photographs are probably his sons, William, Milton, and Jack. Date on negative envelope wrong.

J. Fred Schultz, Media burgess (or mayor), with beard, examining Media Centennial Celebration hats in B. Gross clothing store

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Zimmerman/ZM-2948.jpg
Date: 1950-05-06
Ben Gross (with glasses) started the store about 1920; he died in 1955. The three younger men who appear in this series of photographs are probably his sons, William, Milton, and Jack. Date on negative envelope wrong.

J. Fred Schultz, Media burgess (or mayor), with beard, examining Media Centennial Celebration hats in B. Gross clothing store

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Zimmerman/ZM-2949.jpg
Date: 1950-05-06
Ben Gross (with glasses) started the store about 1920; he died in 1955. The three younger men who appear in this series of photographs are probably his sons, William, Milton, and Jack. Date on negative envelope wrong.

J. Fred Schultz, Media burgess (or mayor), with beard, examining Media Centennial Celebration hats in B. Gross clothing store

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Zimmerman/ZM-2950.jpg
Date: 1950-05-06
Ben Gross (with glasses) started the store about 1920; he died in 1955. The three younger men who appear in this series of photographs are probably his sons, William, Milton, and Jack. Date on negative envelope wrong.

J. Fred Schultz, Media burgess (or mayor), with beard, examining Media Centennial Celebration hats in B. Gross clothing store

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Zimmerman/ZM-2951.jpg
Date: 1950-05-06
Ben Gross (with glasses) started the store about 1920; he died in 1955. The three younger men who appear in this series of photographs are probably his sons, William, Milton, and Jack. Date on negative envelope wrong.

J. Fred Schultz, Media burgess (or mayor), with beard, examining Media Centennial Celebration hats in B. Gross clothing store

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Zimmerman/ZM-2952.jpg
Date: 1950-05-06
Ben Gross (with glasses) started the store about 1920; he died in 1955. The three younger men who appear in this series of photographs are probably his sons, William, Milton, and Jack. Date on negative envelope wrong.

J. H. Lewis, copy

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5532.jpg
Date: 1905 (circa)

J. H. Sloan, Media Odorless Excavator Company

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-4199.jpg
Date: 1895-1900
Probably an employee and not Sloan, the owner, at the reins of the horse. This was an early version of a septic tank cleaning service, which used vacuum pumps to remove the contents of outhouses and cesspools before a public sewer system was…

J. Harvey Smith

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5557.jpg
Location: Appleton Studio
Date: 1905-11-21

J. Howard Lewis, on horse

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-8323-2.jpg
Date: 1904-08-13
Negative damaged; had been stuck to negative AP-8323-1

J. Lord Rigby, wisteria

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-9025.jpg
Date: 1909-05-15
Rear of house

J. Mitchel Baker, copy

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5712.jpg
Address: Not Known
Original from Trask, 1210 Chestnut St., in Philadelphia

J. Nelson Rigby Funeral Home

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-01130.jpg
Date: 1972-05-07
Caption sheet in folder says this "former residence of Mrs. Thompson" was "built on property once owned by Isaac Worrall."

J. T. Reynolds and baby

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5539.jpg
Location: Appleton Studio
Date: 1905-03-06
Baby might be Brooke Tawney; J. T. Reynolds would have been his grandfather according to obituary. Media Directory for 1897 lists John T. Reynolds, lawyer, 10 South Ave., 344 W. Front St.