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Media High School football team, 1928
Address: 120 E. Front St., Media (Pa.)
Date: 1928
Includes signatures of various players, including Moat, J. A. Taliaferro, Ed Smith, Dave Harris, Schaffner, John Valenti, and several illegible. Label on reverse: "Mildred D. Wilding, 3704 Taylor Ave., Drexel Hill, PA 19026"
Mrs. Gene Berry, one of the assistants at the Media Free Library
Address: 1 E. Front St., Media (Pa.)
Date: 1960 (circa)
Group of children near bridge carrying Baltimore Pike over Ridley Creek
Date: 1930 (circa)
Left to right: Howard Mulholland, Cyrus Mulholland, Ann Mulholland, *Dot Sullivan (now Freeman), Sis Redding, *Dorothy Harvey (now Leonard, whose father took the photo), William Dutton Mulholland, Jr., and Arthur George Thorp, Jr. (* = only ones…
Ed and Harvey with steam tractor in quarry, Gayley Street and Park Avenue
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. A large apartment complex now sits in the land that was once the quarry.
Idlewild Hotel and Furness Cottage
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.
Houses at Duffs, Moylan, Pa.
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.
"Shadowland" (Park Avenue), near Media
Location: Nether Providence (Pa. : Township)
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. This photo was entered in The John Wanamaker Exhibition of Photographs by Amateurs, February 1908.
Manchester Avenue, Media, Pa.
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. Looking south on Manchester Avenue from about Baltimore Avenue. The East Media School is in the right…
House on Upper [sic] Providence Road
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. This is probably the house (still standing in 2021 but added onto on the north side after the photo was taken),…
Creek Road, along Ridley Creek, near Moylan, Pa. Bruce, Harvey and Ed.
Location: Delaware County (Pa.)
Date: 1908
"Red Ink" photo, series by same photographer named for red ink used for writing descriptions on reverse side of similarly-mounted images. Location uncertain. Same as P-08012B, except wider crop.
Creek Road, along Ridley Creek, near Moylan, Pa. Bruce, Harvey and Ed.
Location: Delaware County (Pa.)
Date: 1908
"Red Ink" photo, series by same photographer named for red ink used for writing descriptions on reverse side of similarly-mounted images. Location uncertain. This photo was entered in The John Wanamaker Exhibition of Photographs by Amateurs, February…
Rose Valley near Moylan, Ben Walker and Ed
Location: Rose Valley (Pa.)
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. Photo shows a stream that may be Vernon Run, a Ridley Creek tributary.
Ridley Creek from P.M.S. trolley bridge, looking south, Media, Pa.
Location: Delaware County (Pa.)
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. P.M.S. is the Philadelphia, Morton & Swarthmore Street Railway Company. This line did have a bridge in…
Lovers Lane, Idlewild Woods
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 is possibly the lane that one ran on the Park Avenue side of the Idlewild Hotel, which is now unused and is…
House opposite Media Park
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. Frank Lees wrote that this house is now on what is known as the Upper Bank Nursery property. The property is…
Ridley Creek below Duffs, Moylan, Pa.
Location: Moylan (Pa.)
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. Duffs may be the mill that now houses the borough offices for Rose Valley, Pa. It is possible that the…
Between Mt. Alverno and Knowlton, Ed, Whitey, and Walker
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. Between Mt. Alverno and Knowlton roads, looking upstream. Chester Creek flows in the valley to the left below…
Middletown Public School No. 1
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.
Purling waters and murmuring pines, Beatty's Hollow.
Location: Nether Providence (Pa. : Township)
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…
Falls, Crum Creek, Del. Co. Covered and trolley bridge. Plush Mills. Ed, Harvey, Bruce.
Location: Nether Providence (Pa. : Township)
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.
Rose Valley near Moylan, Pa.
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. Looking south on Rose Valley Road, near intersection with Possum Hollow Road, at t what are known as the "Mill…
Lotus Pond, Rose Valley, Pa.
Address: 1 Old Mill Lane, Rose Valley (Pa.)
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 photo was entered in The John Wanamaker Exhibition of Photographs by Amateurs, February 1908. See P-11002 for…
Delaware County Friends of “Fritz” - Arcadia Cafe, Jan. 12, 1921.
Date: 1921
Oversized photo of banquet at Arcadia Café . This is probably the restaurant opened in 1915, in Philadelphia's Widener Building on Penn Square, by Fritz Pflug--hence, the "Friends of Fritz." See "Restaurants," The Encyclopedia of Greater…
Victoria Plush Mill
Date: 1906-03
Caption: Taken in March 1906 from southwest of Mill from quarry of R. T. Ogden.