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Briggs Inn

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-10023.jpg
Date: 1849
Frank Lees caption: Owned by Isaac Briggs, built 1849, Providence Road and Plush Mill Road. Building still stands, as of 2019. Copy of original photo; source not noted

South Media

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-10018B.jpg
Date: 1900 (circa)
Caption probably added in 1959: In front of Paul's Row, Washington Ave., South Media, Pa. 1959 - Built up now nice homes for colored folks. Exact location in South Media is uncertain.

South Media

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-10018A.jpg
Date: 1910 (circa)
Exact location in South Media is uncertain.

Crum Creek Dam, Nether Providence Township

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-10017.jpg
Date: 1900 (circa)

Falls, Crum Creek, Del. Co. Covered and trolley bridge. Plush Mills. Ed, Harvey, Bruce.

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-10015.jpg
Date: 1908 (circa)
"Red Ink" photo, series by same photographer named for red ink used for writing descriptions on reverse side of similarly-mounted images. Victoria Plush Mills are just out of the picture, to the right.

Angora Trolley on Baltimore Pike, Nether Providence Township

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-10014.jpg
Date: 1910 (circa)
Modern print, probably from glass negative. Title is from Frank Lees.

Building the World War I Memorial Bridge

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-10012i.jpg
Date: 1923-1926

Building the World War I Memorial Bridge

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-10012H.jpg
Date: 1923-1926

Building the World War I Memorial Bridge

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-10012G.jpg
Date: 1923-1926

Building the World War I Memorial Bridge

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-10012F.jpg
Date: 1923-1926

Building the World War I Memorial Bridge

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-10012E.jpg
Date: 1923-1926

Building the World War I Memorial Bridge

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-10012D.jpg
Date: 1923-1926

Building the World War I Memorial Bridge

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-10012C.jpg
Date: 1923-1926

Building the World War I Memorial Bridge

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-10012B.jpg
Date: 1923-1926

Building the World War I Memorial Bridge

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-10012A.jpg
Date: 1923-1926

World War I Memorial Bridge over Crum Creek

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-10011.jpg
Date: 1925 (circa)
The so-called Plush Mill Memorial Bridge, with its associated bronze tablets memorializing World War I dead, was dedicated June 16, 1926.

Reservoir, Springfield Water Co

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-10010.jpg
Date: 1920 (circa)
This is probably the lower pond created by the dam north of Beatty Road.

Covered bridge carrying Baltimore Pike over Crum Creek

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-10009C.jpg
Date: 1917
Caption also calls this the Victoria Plush Mill Bridge. This view is looking west into Nether Providence A trolley is shown alongside the bridge. Copy of original photo; source not noted.

Covered bridge carrying Baltimore Pike over Crum Creek

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-10009B.jpg
Date: 1910 (circa)
Caption also calls this the Victoria Plush Mill Bridge. The view is looking east into Springfield. Modern print, probably from glass negative.

Covered bridge carrying Baltimore Pike over Crum Creek

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-10009A.jpg
Date: 1910 (circa)
Caption also calls this the Victoria Plush Mill Bridge. The view is looking east into Springfield. Modern print, probably from glass negative.

Victoria Plush Mill

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-10008.jpg
Date: 1890 (circa)
Copy of original photo; source not noted

Purling waters and murmuring pines, Beatty's Hollow.

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-10004B.jpg
Date: 1908
"Red Ink" photo, series by same photographer named for red ink used for writing descriptions on reverse side of similarly-mounted images. This scene is on Crum Creek, near Beatty Road. Address is approximate. This photo was entered in The John…

Crum Creek (Beatty Hollow)

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-10004A.jpg
Date: 1908
The title and date are from Frank Lee's writing on envelope. The original photograph had no identification on reverse other than an indication of the lens or film used, and a notation: "Taken against the sun." Address is approximate. Probably Dr.…

Victoria Plush Mill

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-10003M.jpg
Date: 1910 (circa)

Victoria Plush Mill

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-10003L.jpg
Date: 1906 (circa)