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Trolley car on Olive Street south of 5th Street, Media.

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-04026.jpg
Date: 1900-1920
Sign on trolley reads "Darby." The Union A.M.E. Church (in 2019, the Trinity A.M.E. Church) is on the left.

Car 1284 on trolley route 71, into Media

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-04024.jpg
Location: Media (Pa.)
Date: 1910-1920
Copy of original photo; source not noted

Woman on Route 47 trolley (or Car No. 47), M. & S. Traction Co.

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-04023.jpg
Location: New Jersey
Date: 1900-1910
The M. & S. Traction Company, according to a newspaper search, operated in central New Jersey--M. & S. standing for Middlesex and Somerset, two New Jersey counties. Therefore, Frank Lees' information -- "Summer trolley car on Baltimore Avenue, on…

Trolley Car No. 27

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-04021.jpg
Date: 1905 (circa)
Caption on reverse: Car No. 27 was made by the Jewett Car Company equipped for train operation. They had high back leather seats of the reclining type. This type car was placed in operation 1902 to 1913 incl. They were used on the Ardmore, Media, and…

Going to Media Station

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-04017.jpg
Date: 1900 (circa)
Train heading west. Boardwalk to Idlewild Hotel on right.

Media Railroad Station

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-04015.jpg
Date: 1900 (circa)
Frank Lees caption: Media Railroad Station, built 1881 by the then Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington Railroad. Copy of original photo; source not noted

Media Railroad Station

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-04014A.jpg
Date: 1951
Looking southwest from bridge carrying Orange Street over the tracks. The station appears either to be under renovation or demolition. Copy of original photo; source not noted

Media Railroad Station

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-04013.jpg
Date: 1870 (circa)
This view is before the station was expanded and before the covered stairway on the north side of the tracks was built. Compare to AP-4113. Copy of original photo; source not noted

Steam train on High Bridge over Ridley Creek Valley, heading east towards Media

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-04008.jpg
Location: Media (Pa.)
Date: 1910-1915
Copy of original photo; source not noted

Railroad High Bridge over Ridley Creek Valley, looking west

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-04007.jpg
Location: Media (Pa.)
Date: 1890 (circa)
Bridge over railroad, and Clothier Mansion atop hill, are visible in the background.

Ed. Miller, conductor of Pennsylvania Railroad's first train into West Chester

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-04005.jpg
Date: 1858-11-11
Either 1854 or 1858. Copy of original photo; source not noted

Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary Catholic Church, school group portrait

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-03055.jpg
Date: 1912 (circa)
According to Frank Lees, Most Rev. James P. McCloskey is the priest in the center of the photo.

Penncrest High School band in parade on State Street, Media, Pa.

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-03053.jpg
Date: 1970-05
Six photographs. Looking west toward Orange Street. Probably Memorial Day parade.

Teachers in the Social Studies Department, Media High School, 1949

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-03052.jpg
Date: 1949
Identified on reverse (in no order): Miss Nelson, Mr. MacCleary, Mr. Ware, Mr. McMurray, Mr. Anderson, myself (Mrs. Martha Rudnick)