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Media Centennial Celebration
Address: State St., Media (Pa.)
Date: 1950-06-03/1950-06-10
Media Lion's Club float, with charioteer being pulled by two lions in harness. This image had no negative number and no caption, so date is uncertain.
Media Centennial Celebration
Address: State St., Media (Pa.)
Date: 1950-06-03/1950-06-10
Girl Scouts float. This image had no negative number and no caption, so date is uncertain.
Media Centennial Celebration. "Centennial greetings from the Wentzes."
Date: 1950
Card includes photographs of Media Presbyterian Church, Borough Hall, Media High School, and R.M.S. Media, a British steamship. Dr. Walter Engard Wentz Jr. married Elizabeth Hoopes Mackey on September 24, 1932 (See Chester Times, Sept. 26, 1932). She…
Media Centennial Celebration. Borough Day
Date: 1950-06-09
About 1000 people visited Tyler Arboretum as a kind of pilgrimage to the home of Minshall Painter, one of the Borough's founders and the man who gave Media its name. This house is one of the newer structures on the property. Free bus rides to and…
Media Centennial Celebration. Borough Day
Date: 1950-06-03/1950-06-10
Francis (Duke) Cunningham and unidentified man, contestants in the Media Centennial Beard Contest, in the refreshment stand of the Media Fire Company.
Media Centennial Celebration. Borough Day
Address: State St., Media (Pa.)
Date: 1950-06-09
Keystone Kops (Francis Gray, right) on the lookout for beardless men to punish.
Media Centennial Celebration. Borough Day
Address: 216 E. State St., Media (Pa.)
Date: 1950-06-09
Party after LuLu Temple (Shriners) performance at Lines Motor Company
Media Centennial Celebration. Borough Day
Address: 216 E. State St., Media (Pa.)
Date: 1950-06-09
Party after LuLu Temple (Shriners) performance at Lines Motor Company
Media Centennial Celebration. Borough Day
Address: 216 E. State St., Media (Pa.)
Date: 1950-06-09
Party after LuLu Temple (Shriners) performance at Lines Motor Company
Media Centennial Celebration. Borough Day
Address: 216 E. State St., Media (Pa.)
Date: 1950-06-09
Party after LuLu Temple (Shriners) performance at Lines Motor Company
Media Centennial Celebration. Borough Day
Address: State St., Media (Pa.)
Date: 1950-06-09
Miss Greater Media float sponsored by the Media Junior Chamber of Commerce (Jaycees). Patty Highfield, in back, surrounded by her court.
Media Centennial Celebration. Borough Day. Evening events on High School field
Date: 1950-06-09
Patty Highfield, Miss Greater Media, with an unidentified Shriner. Donald G. Shook, owner of the Media News, is seated in the bottom center of the photo.
Media Centennial Celebration. Borough Day. Evening events on High School field
Date: 1950-06-09
Left to right: Patty Highfield, Miss Greater Media, George Jeffries (with Shriner hat), ad Frank Lees.
Media Centennial Celebration. Borough Day. Evening events on High School field
Date: 1950-06-09
Left to right, seated behind bunting: Mrs. Crosby L. Smith, Nan Dutton, Walter N. Hagerman (with LuLu Potentate hat), Frederick Brumble, and Patty Highfield, Miss Greater Media. Frank Lees is seated in the lower right corner. Patty married Fred…
Media Centennial Celebration. Borough Day. Evening events on High School field
Date: 1950-06-09
Judge's stand, with Nan Dutton holding flowers, and Mrs. Crosby L. Smith to her right. The LuLu Potentate is Walter N. Hagerman. (Chester Times, June 10, 1950)
Media Centennial Celebration. Borough Day. Evening events on High School field
Date: 1950-06-09
LuLu Temple Philadelphia. Uniformed drill units perform on the Media High School field
Media Centennial Celebration. Borough Day. Evening events on High School field
Date: 1950-06-09
LuLu Temple Philadelphia. Uniformed drill units perform on the Media High School field
Media Centennial Celebration. Borough Day. Evening events on High School field
Date: 1950-06-09
Charles Wray, winner, Media Centennial Beard Contest
Media Centennial Celebration. Borough Day. Evening events on High School field
Date: 1950-06-09
Beard Contest finalists seated in foreground, with spectators in background. Left to right, seated: Possibly Mrs. Jack Kelley, Jack Kelley, Francis Cunningham, Charles Wray. Kneeling: Charles Parker, Harry McLeod.
Media Centennial Celebration. Borough Day. Evening events on High School field
Date: 1950-06-09
J. Fred Schultz, Media burgess, and Mrs. Crosby L. Smith, with bouquet.
Media Centennial Celebration. Borough Day. Evening events on High School field
Date: 1950-06-09
Performance by uniformed drill units from the LuLu Temple Philadelphia.