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Baker Store, Gradyville

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-9071-1.jpg
Date: 1908 (circa)
A gathering either before or after a baseball game. This photo had been marked “Unknown.” Large thermometer labeled "Ball & Rhodes, Media Pa." laying horizontally near steps. Two men sitting on steps and man at top of steps wearing ribbons that…

Baker Store, Gradyville

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-9071-2.jpg
Date: 1908 (circa)
This photo had been marked “Unknown.” See AP-9071-1 for full description.

Ed and Harvey with steam tractor in quarry, Gayley Street and Park Avenue

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-01159.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. A large apartment complex now sits in the land that was once the quarry.

Idlewild Hotel and Furness Cottage

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-01248B.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.

Houses at Duffs, Moylan, Pa.

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-08003.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.

"Shadowland" (Park Avenue), near Media

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-08007.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. This photo was entered in The John Wanamaker Exhibition of Photographs by Amateurs, February 1908.

Manchester Avenue, Media, Pa.

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-08010.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. Looking south on Manchester Avenue from about Baltimore Avenue. The East Media School is in the right…

House on Upper [sic] Providence Road

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-08011.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. This is probably the house (still standing in 2021 but added onto on the north side after the photo was taken),…

Rose Valley near Moylan, Ben Walker and Ed

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-08018A.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. 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.

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-08018B.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. P.M.S. is the Philadelphia, Morton & Swarthmore Street Railway Company. This line did have a bridge in…

House opposite Media Park

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-08026.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. 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.

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-08030.jpg
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

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-09006.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. Between Mt. Alverno and Knowlton roads, looking upstream. Chester Creek flows in the valley to the left below…

Middletown Public School No. 1

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-09012A.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.

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.

Rose Valley near Moylan, Pa.

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-11001B.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. Looking south on Rose Valley Road, near intersection with Possum Hollow Road, at t what are known as the "Mill…

Panama Canal Zone, lock site near Miraflores

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-16008.jpg
Date: 1908 (circa)
One of a series of photographs of Panama Canal construction and scenery by W. R. Newbold, Jr., of Media. Original caption: Looking across lock site near Miraflores. This gives an idea of what is to be gone through to the depth of 80 feet.

Panama Canal Zone, cemetery

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-16011.jpg
Location: Panama
Date: 1908 (circa)
One of a series of photographs of Panama Canal construction and scenery by W. R. Newbold, Jr., of Media. Original caption: This is where some of the Americans go – First inhabited early part of [19]05.

Panama Canal Zone, Ancon Hospital

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-16012.jpg
Date: 1908 (circa)
One of a series of photographs of Panama Canal construction and scenery by W. R. Newbold, Jr., of Media. Original caption: Drive thru Ancon Hospital grounds

Panama Canal Zone, jail in Cherique

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-16013.jpg
Date: 1908 (circa)
One of a series of photographs of Panama Canal construction and scenery by W. R. Newbold, Jr., of Media. Original caption: Cherique jail

Panama Canal Zone

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-16014.jpg
Location: Panama
Date: 1908 (circa)
One of a series of photographs of Panama Canal construction and scenery by W. R. Newbold, Jr., of Media. Original caption: Last of Panama land forces

Panama Canal Zone, police court

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-16015.jpg
Location: Panama
Date: 1908 (circa)
One of a series of photographs of Panama Canal construction and scenery by W. R. Newbold, Jr., of Media. Original caption: Police Court, Panama, on Sunday morning

Panama Canal Zone, line for lottery

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-16016.jpg
Location: Panama
Date: 1908 (circa)
One of a series of photographs of Panama Canal construction and scenery by W. R. Newbold, Jr., of Media. Original caption: Every Sunday at 10 A.M.[Loteria de Panama]

Panama Canal Zone, fire station, Cristobal

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-16017.jpg
Date: 1908 (circa)
One of a series of photographs of Panama Canal construction and scenery by W. R. Newbold, Jr., of Media. Original caption: Canal Zone Fire Station, Cristobal

Panama Canal Zone, residences

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-16018.jpg
Location: Panama
Date: 1908 (circa)
One of a series of photographs of Panama Canal construction and scenery by W. R. Newbold, Jr., of Media. Original caption: Married Quarters, for the lucky