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Glen Providence Park
Address: 550 W. State St., Media (Pa.)
Date: 1938 (circa)
Modern contact prints made from original 5 x7 negative. Date based on P-01179, which has similar negative.
Baltimore Avenue during paving project, looking east from Gayley Street.
Date: 1938 (circa)
Photograph stamped on the reverse: The General Crushed Stone Co., 408-9 Franklin Bank Bldg., Philadelphia, PA. The workmen are probably spreading crushed stone provided by this company. Handwritten number on reverse: 10907, possibly negative number.
North side of State Street looking west from Plum Street
Date: 1938 (circa)
Copy of original photo; source not noted
Media Drug Store. Haldeman Building, northwest corner of State and Olive streets.
Date: 1938 (circa)
Copy of original photo; source not noted
Media Aviation Field
Location: Media (Pa.)
Date: 1938
Caption on envelope: "First mail delivery, Media Aviation Field, autogiro, about 1924." This does not match the date on the back of the print, which is July 5, 1938. This is probably related to National Airmail Week, in May 1938.
Marie Chamberlain’s Grocery Store, Orange and Lincoln streets
Date: 1938
Probably a modern contact print made from old negative
Drayton Rhodes house, 2nd and Orange streets
Date: 1938
Frank Lees caption: "Delaware County Parking Garage now (1990) occupies this site." Copy of original photo; source not noted
Penn Beef Company, northeast corner of State and Plum streets, and F. W. Woolworth Co.
Address: 17 W. State St., Media (Pa.)
Date: 1936-07-23
The address given in this photograph's caption, 38 W. State Street, is wrong. Penn Beef was at that location, but this store opened at this location in 1930. In 1939 Edgmont Meat of Beef Co. bought the business.
Penn Beef Company, northeast corner of State and Plum streets, and F. W. Woolworth Co.
Address: 17 W. State St., Media (Pa.)
Date: 1936-07-23
The address given in this photograph's caption, 38 W. State Street, is wrong. Penn Beef was at that location, but this store opened at this location in 1930. In 1939 Edgmont Meat of Beef Co. bought the business.
Penn Beef Company, northeast corner of State and Plum streets, and F. W. Woolworth Co.
Address: 17 W. State St., Media (Pa.)
Date: 1936-07-23
The address given in this photograph's caption, 38 W. State Street, is wrong. Penn Beef was at that location, but this store opened at this location in 1930. In 1939 Edgmont Meat of Beef Co. bought the business.
Penn Beef Company, northeast corner of State and Plum streets, and F. W. Woolworth Co.
Address: 17 W. State St., Media (Pa.)
Date: 1936-07-23
The address given in this photograph's caption, 38 W. State Street, is wrong. Penn Beef was at that location, but this store opened at this location in 1930. In 1939 Edgmont Meat of Beef Co. bought the business.
Penn Beef Company, northeast corner of State and Plum streets, and F. W. Woolworth Co.
Address: 17 W. State St., Media (Pa.)
Date: 1936-07-23
The address given in this photograph's caption, 38 W. State Street, is wrong. Penn Beef was at that location, but this store opened at this location in 1930. In 1939 Edgmont Meat of Beef Co. bought the business.
Russel's Hot Dogs - Sandwiches. Possibly Plum Street, north of State Street
Address: 17 W. State St., Media (Pa.)
Date: 1936-07-23
Russel's Hot Dogs - Sandwiches. Possibly Plum Street, north of State Street
Address: 17 W. State St., Media (Pa.)
Date: 1936-07-23
John Abernathy, owner, Media Terminal Market, southeast corner, State and Plum streets
Date: 1935-1945
The market stood at the southeast corner of State and Plum streets.