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Media Theatre ushers: Walter Tipping, John Tipping and Woodrow Kaiser
Address: 104 E. State St., Media (Pa.)
Date: 1950 (circa)
John Tipping is in center; identification is probably left to right. Copy of original photo; source not noted
State Street during snowstorm
Date: 1950 (circa)
Looking west on State Street from east of Plum Street, at south side of the street. View includes Plumstead Inn and other buildings. Scan made from 4 x 5 inch negative
John Tipping and three unidentified woman
Location: Media (Pa.)
Date: 1950 (circa)
They seem to be holding some kind of meeting. Scan made from 4x 5 inch negative
Staff, First National Bank of Media
Address: 114 W. State St., Media (Pa.)
Date: 1950 (circa)
The women may be dressed up for some kind of celebration, perhaps related to the Media Centennial Celebration, June 3-10, 1950.
Media Lions Club Keystone Kops
Location: Media (Pa.)
Date: 1950
The performance of the Keystone Kops was part of the 8-day Media Centennial Celebration in June 1950. The Kops "punished" beardless men who had not purchased the required "Beardless Permits," which were sold by the Lions Club leading up to this…
Media Borough Council
Address: 1 W. State St., Media (Pa.)
Date: 1950
Frank Lees caption on reverse: From left to right: ?, Frank Wiltshire, ?, Gus Houtman, Maude Allen, Paul Clark, J. Orval Mancill, ? Tuckerman, J. Fred Schultz.
3rd Street Friends Meeting House and Media Friends School
Address: 125 W. 3rd St., Media (Pa.)
Date: 1950
C. Frank Williamson, Media Free Library
Location: Media (Pa.)
Date: 1950
Williamson was a board member from the library's founding in 1901 until his death on August 21, 1955, at the age of 94, according to his August 22, 1955 obituary in the Chester Times.
Media Centennial Celebration. "Centennial greetings from the Wentzes."
Date: 1950
Card includes photographs of Media Presbyterian Church, Borough Hall, Media High School, and R.M.S. Media, a British steamship. Dr. Walter Engard Wentz Jr. married Elizabeth Hoopes Mackey on September 24, 1932 (See Chester Times, Sept. 26, 1932). She…
Media Furniture Store
Address: 104 W. Baltimore Ave., Media (Pa.)
Date: 1950
"Airbrushed copy negative. Made for owner Sadir Elias's ad" in the Centennial Book 106. This building still (2020 ) stands, occupying the front and side yard of a much older Victorian twin that looms behind it.
Hotel Media
Address: 402 W. Baltimore Ave., Media (Pa.)
Date: 1950
Airbrushed copy negative. Made for Hotel Media's advertising in Centennial Book 110. This building sat on the southwest corner of Baltimore Ave and Lemon St. Hill's Seafood now (2020) occupies the site.
The News Spot
Address: 22 S. Orange St., Media (Pa.)
Date: 1949-12-12
This newsstand is no longer a separate building, but has been absorbed into the storefront that is entered at the northwest corner of Orange and State streets.
First National Bank of Media, Open House, November 3, 1949, 6:30 P.M.
Address: 114 W. State St., Media (Pa.)
Date: 1949-11-03
[Caption on reverse: "Matthews, G. Rigby, Bevan, Abel, E. [Edward H.] Rigby" Written to side of these names is “Freeman”
Media Junior Chamber of Commerce (Jaycees)
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 Dry Cleaners
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.
Looking east at trolley on State Street and bus on South Avenue (now Veterans Square)
Date: 1949-05-01
Centennial book 27. Negative damaged.
Media Businessmen's Association
Address: Not Known
Date: 1949-05-01
Left to right: Frank, Lees, Lillian Baker, Walter Strine. Centennial Book 40
