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Delaware County Tax Collectors Association

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Address: Not known
Date: 1950-04-26
Crosby L. Smith, Media's tax collector, is on the far left.

Girl Scout Troop 285 of Media, Pa. Girls making candle holders.

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Date: 1950-04-26
According to a note in The Chester Times, Nov. 4, 1950, page 7, this troop met in the First Methodist Episcopal Church in Media.

Girl Scout Troop 285 of Media, Pa. Girls making candle holders.

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Date: 1950-04-26
According to a note in The Chester Times, Nov. 4, 1950, page 7, this troop met in the First Methodist Episcopal Church in Media.

Girl Scout Troop 285 of Media, Pa. Girls singing around a piano.

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Date: 1950-04-26
According to a note in The Chester Times, Nov. 4, 1950, page 7, this troop met in the First Methodist Episcopal Church in Media.

Girl Scout Troop 285 of Media, Pa. Girls singing around a piano.

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Date: 1950-04-26
According to a note in The Chester Times, Nov. 4, 1950, page 7, this troop met in the First Methodist Episcopal Church in Media. Centennial Book 54.

Girl Scout Troop 285 of Media, Pa. Girls singing around a piano.

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Zimmerman/ZM-2923.jpg
Date: 1950-04-26
According to a note in The Chester Times, Nov. 4, 1950, page 7, this troop met in the First Methodist Episcopal Church in Media.

Girl Scout Troop 285 of Media, Pa. Girls sitting in circle with troop leader.

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Date: 1950-04-26
According to a note in The Chester Times, Nov. 4, 1950, page 7, this troop met in the First Methodist Episcopal Church in Media.

Media Lions Club, officers

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Address: Not Known
Date: 1950-04-25
Left to right: William Patterson, Frank Snear, Francis Gray, Robert W. Burke, A. Fred Manno, and James Stewart. Centennial Book 39.

Media Lions Club, officers

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Address: Not Known
Date: 1950-04-25
Left to right: William Patterson, Frank Snear, Francis Gray, Robert W. Burke, A. Fred Manno, and James Stewart.

Media Centennial Beard Contest. Bearded members of the Media Lions Club, who sponsored the contest.

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Address: Not Known
Date: 1950-04-25
HAIR FRINGES ON MEDIA LIONS CLUB MEMBERS – Nine members of Media Lions Club are sporting beads for the Media Centennial Celebration in June, and rightly so, for this club is the sponsorship unit for the beard-raising contest that has set the razor…

Delaware County Board of Commissioners

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Date: 1950-04-25
John H. Doherty, chairman, sits in the center chair, with Albert J. Crawford, Jr., right, and Fred F. Duke, left. The man sitting in front of the table is Edward H. P. Fronefield, county solicitor. The commission offices were in the court house…

Arthur C. Throne, Delaware County Engineer (left), with unidentified man

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Date: 1950-04-25
Besides being the chief engineer for the county, Throne was also the head of the county Republican party in 1949. Note the photos of bridges and the surveyor's transit behind the two men.

Arthur C. Throne, Delaware County Engineer (left) with unidentified man

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Date: 1950-04-25
Besides being the chief engineer for the county, Throne was also the head of the county Republican party in 1949. Note the photos of bridges and the surveyor's transit behind the two men. This office was probably in the court house complex.

Aerial view, Baltimore Avenue and Providence Road

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Date: 1950-04-22
Copy of original photo; source not noted

Aerial view taken over Media, Pa.

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Date: 1950-04-22
Looking east from Lemon Street. Delaware County Court House on left. Centennial Book 3.

Aerial view taken over Media, Pa.

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Date: 1950-04-22
Looking northwest over Baltimore Avenue and Jackson Street. Delaware County Court House at top center.

Aerial view taken over Media, Pa.

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Date: 1950-04-22
Looking north from over Baker Street, up South Avenue (now Veteran's Square) to the Delaware County Court House.

Aerial view taken over Media, Pa.

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Date: 1950-04-22
Looking west on Baltimore Avenue from east of Providence Road. Howard Johnson's restaurant is in lower left, opposite from the Media Inn.

Aerial view taken over Moylan, Pa.

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Date: 1950-04-22
Looking east over Notre Dame Catholic High School for Girls, showing Manchester Avenue, with Moylan and Nether Providence Township beyond.

Aerial view taken over Moylan, Pa.

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Date: 1950-04-22
Looking northwest over Notre Dame Catholic High School for Girls, showing houses on Idlewild Circle and Letitia Lane under construction. Media and the Delaware County Court House are visible in the distance.

Aerial view taken over Media, Pa.

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Date: 1950-04-22
Looking southeast over Media High School athletic field and Lines Motor Company, on State Street. The Delaware River is visible at the top.

Aerial view taken over Springfield Township, Delaware County, Pa.

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Date: 1950-04-22
View looking northeast from west of Thomson Avenue, near Baltimore Pike, which is just out of view to the bottom right.