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Media Free Library, studies for a possible addition

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-12026D.jpg
Date: 1930 (circa)
Roof details, viewed from fire escape on Media Borough Hall building, looking north to back of house on southeast corner of Jackson and Front streets

Media Free Library, studies for a possible addition

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-12026C.jpg
Date: 1930 (circa)
Roof details, viewed from fire escape on Media Borough Hall building, looking northwest to west side of Jackson Street

Media Free Library, studies for a possible addition

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-12026B.jpg
Date: 1930 (circa)
P-12026A overdrawn with proposed second-floor addition. The rear of Media Borough Hall is on the right.

Media Free Library, studies for a possible addition

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-12026A.jpg
Date: 1930 (circa)
Light penciled extension added to the roofline. The rear of Media Borough Hall is on the right.

Media Free Library, interior, with librarian at desk

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-12025B.jpg
Date: 1918
The librarian may be Rebecca Smedley. Two World War I posters are visible, along with a large inspirational sign, "Where Hast Thou Gleaned To-Day?"

Media Upper Providence Free Library: Display at Media Town Fair

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-12023.jpg
Date: 1975
Display table located on State Street, in front of the former Post Office that was then used as the Borough Hall.

Looking north on Jackson Street, Media, Pa.

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-12022.jpg
Date: 1940 (circa)
Police Station (in north section of Borough Hall) is on far right, with the portico and façade of the Media Free Library also visible on right. Copy of original photo; source not noted

Media Free Library and Borough Hall

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-12020B.jpg
Date: 1968
The building at this point was no longer used as a library; both the library and Borough Hall would shortly be torn down.

Media Free Library,

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-12020A.jpg
Date: 1968
The building at this point was no longer used as a library, and would shortly be torn down.

Media Free Library Clock

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-12019.jpg
Date: 1951 (circa)
Martz (or Marty?) Boyd, top, and Ben Miller, below.

Arthur B. Griffith, Media Free Library

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-12017.jpg
Location: Media (Pa.)
Date: 1960 (circa)
Probably a board member.

Elizabeth Hall, Media Free Library

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-12016.jpg
Location: Media (Pa.)
Date: 1960 (circa)
Oldest living of board members from 1912

Ernest L. Clark, Media Free Library

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-12015.jpg
Location: Media (Pa.)
Date: 1910 (circa)
First president of the Media Free Library

Elizabeth Wentz, Media Free Library

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-12013.jpg
Location: Media (Pa.)
Date: 1960 (circa)
Board member

Media Free Library Doll Display

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-12012.jpg
Date: 1955 (circa)
Mary Williamson, wife of board member C. Frank Williamson, is showing the doll to a woman and two Girl Scouts. These dolls (as of 2019) are in the collection of the Media Historic Archives Commission.

C. Frank Williamson, Media Free Library

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-12010.jpg
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.

Rebecca Smedley, Media Free Library

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-12009.jpg
Location: Media (Pa.)
Date: 1923
According to her obituary from the Chester Times, July 11, 1950, Smedley served as librarian from 1906 to 1917. She never married, and lived at 44 E. Front Street, a block from the library.

E. Louise Kruse, librarian, Media Free Library

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-12008.jpg
Location: Media (Pa.)
Date: 1957
She served as librarian for 38 years, from 1919 until her death on January 11, 1958. She never married.