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Media Fire Company. Housing new Seagrave fire engine.

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Zimmerman/ZM-3018.jpg
Date: 1950-05-06
Beer party in firehouse after the event. Edward Gibson, chief (left) with Mildred Gibson, his wife. As of 2020, four generations of the Gibson family have served the Media community though work with the fire company.

Media Fire Company. Housing new Seagrave fire engine.

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Zimmerman/ZM-3019.jpg
Date: 1950-05-06
Beer party in firehouse after the event.

Media Fire Company. Housing new Seagrave fire engine

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Zimmerman/ZM-2953.jpg
Date: 1950-05-06
Shows the parade that was part of this event. Date on negative envelope wrong.

Media Fire Company, parading in front of Charter House

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-8150-1.jpg
Date: 1901-10-02
Firemen in uniform; onlookers include numerous children; Charter House willows in full leaf.

Media Fire Company, parading in front of Charter House

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-8150-2.jpg
Date: 1901-10-02
Firemen in uniform; onlookers include numerous children; Charter House willows in full leaf.

Media Fire Company wagon made by Media Carriage Co.

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5255.jpg
Date: 1895-1900
Photographed outside the Media Carriage Co. building. See also AP-5796

Media Fire Company officers

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Zimmerman/ZM-2881.jpg
Address: Not Known
Date: 1950-04-28
Left to right: William Hannum, Robert Ford, Charles Outland, Charles Higgins, Edward Gibson, Frank Lees, A. Randall Mathues, Bernard Cunningham, Richard Lavery, John Tipping, Centennial Book 26. Negative damaged.

Media Fire Company No. 1, fire hose carriage, old

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5212.jpg
Date: 1892 (circa)
Original post office, located at Plum and State, is on right. Highbarger & Lynch Furniture, "on State St. near Plum," on left. Modern prints in Photo Folder 7053, captioned by Frank Lees: “Media’s first fire house and first piece of fire equipment is…

Media Fire Company members with equipment in front of Borough Hall

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Zimmerman/ZM-3069.jpg
Date: 1895
This is Zimmerman's copy of an old photograph, dated 1895.

Media Fire Company hose carriage

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-8146.jpg
Date: 1901-10-02
Photographed on the State St side of the old Borough Hall, which housed the fire company on the first floor. A memorial portrait for William McKinley, recently assassinated, hangs in the doorway of the Media Free Library, which had space upstairs.…

Media Fire Company hook and ladder truck

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5006.jpg
Date: 1893-1895
Frank Lees caption: “Media’s first ladder wagon ca. 1895 shown in front of Way House, 11 W. State St., location of Media Office Supply.”

Media Fire Company engine

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-8294.jpg
Date: 1902 (circa)
Engines is photographed on Jackson Street side of Media Ledger building at 2 W. Jackson St.

Media Fire Company

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-8275.jpg
Date: 1902 (circa)
Two horse-drawn fire wagons photographed on the State St. side of Borough Hall, which housed the fire company in the first floor.

Media Fellowship House, newspaper article on 20th anniversary

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/MaryEdwards/ED-037.jpg
Date: 1964-11-26
Delaware County Daily Times article by Sara M. Grasberger, about Media Fellowship House, 320 S. Jackson Street, Media, PA and coordinator Mary M. Edwards.

Media Elementary School, looking west from Edgmont Street near State Street.

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Zimmerman/ZM-2690.jpg
Date: 1950-03-06
The elementary school occupied the eastern part of the school complex, with the high school in the western section. Centennial Book 63.

Media Dry Cleaners

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Zimmerman/ZM-2930.jpg
Date: 1949-05-01
Identifications, from the negative envelope, are probably left to right: Michael Alexander, F. T. Dotts, Frank Lomas, and Samuel Abrams, who is coatless and was an employee of the company.