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Media Centennial Celebration. Firemen's Day. Parade of Delaware County Firemen's Association

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Date: 1950-06-10
Unidentified string band, with child performer, on Manchester Avenue, just north of Front Street.

Media Centennial Celebration. Firemen's Day. Parade of Delaware County Firemen's Association

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Zimmerman/P-19198-03.jpg
Date: 1950-06-10
Unidentified veterans contingent, on Manchester Avenue, just north of Front Street.

Media Centennial Celebration. Firemen's Day. Parade of Delaware County Firemen's Association

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Zimmerman/P-19198-02.jpg
Date: 1950-06-10
Colwyn Fire Company No. 1 was "led by seven firemen carrying bouquets, 26 other Colwyn men drew by ropes an ancient hose cart said to have been brought from England to Philadelphia more than a century ago." (Chester Times, June 12, 1950)

Media Centennial Celebration

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Date: 1950-06-03/1950-06-10
Looking north on South Avenue (now Veterans Square) from State Street, at Delaware County Court House decorated for the festivities.

Media Centennial Celebration

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Address: Not known
Date: 1950-06-03/1950-06-10
Unknown men during Centennial Celebration, near Media High School athletic field, probably on Edgemont Street. The Thunderbird automobile is the real star of this picture.

Media Centennial Celebration

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Zimmerman/P-19196-10.jpg
Date: 1950-06-03/1950-06-10
Frank Lees caption, incomplete: "In front of John's Grille, Monroe and Baker Streets, 1950. Left to right, standing: Hershey Wiler [sic], Frank Hedge, John Banis, Walter Tipping" Abram Hershey Weiler lived on Manchester Avenue in Nether Providence,…

Media Centennial Celebration

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Address: Not known
Date: 1950-06-03/1950-06-10
Mr. and Mrs. William M. Wenlock. According to the Chester Times, June 7, 1950, p. 15, these are costumes from the 1820s. She was the former Dorothy Anne Kane. The house number behind them is 318, like somewhere in Media, where they both lived.

Media Centennial Celebration

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Date: 1950-06-03/1950-06-10
Walter LaLonde (left) and Francis Scott, in Jeep, wearing American Legion uniform. Media Free Library is in the background.

Media Centennial Celebration

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Date: 1950-06-03/1950-06-10
Caption on reverse: Left to right, top: Laro (?)Thompson, Anne Stewart, Martha Clare, Elizabeth Reiff. Bottom: June Wickersham, Linda Murray.

Media Centennial Celebration

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Date: 1950-06-03/1950-06-10
In costume for the festivities, Left to right, top: Agnes Wenkel, unknown, Elizabeth Clare. Bottom: Kathryn Begley, Dorothy Howarth

Media Centennial Celebration

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Date: 1950-06-03/1950-06-10
Walter LaLonde in costume for the festivities.

Media Centennial Celebration

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Date: 1950-06-03/1950-06-10
Walter LaLonde and Elizabeth Reiff in costume for the festivities.

Media Centennial Celebration

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Zimmerman/P-19196-03.jpg
Date: 1950-06-03/1950-06-10
June Wickersham (left) and Anne Stewart, in costume for the festivities

Media Centennial Celebration

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Date: 1950-06-03/1950-06-10
Adele Bennett in costume for the festivities

Media Centennial Celebration

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Zimmerman/P-19196-01.jpg
Date: 1950-06-03/1950-06-10
Elizabeth Reiff in costume for the festivities.

Two unidentified me

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Address: Not known
Date: 1950-06
Man on left is wearing a hat with a TWA airlines pin.

Hammond organ with sheet music and framed photograph of woman

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Zimmerman/P-19194-32.jpg
Address: Not known
Date: 1950-06
P-19194 to P-19225 came from the same roll of film.

Hammond organ with sheet music

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Zimmerman/P-19194-31.jpg
Address: Not known
Date: 1950-06
P-19194 to P-19225 came from the same roll of film.

Unidentified woman in kitchen. She may be wife of man in P-19221

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Zimmerman/P-19194-30.jpg
Address: Not known
Date: 1950-06
P-19194 to P-19225 came from the same roll of film.

Unidentified man on porch. He may be husband of woman in P-19222.

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Zimmerman/P-19194-29.jpg
Address: Not known
Date: 1950-06
P-19194 to P-19225 came from the same roll of film.

Unidentified man on porch

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Zimmerman/P-19194-28.jpg
Address: Not known
Date: 1950-06
P-19194 to P-19225 came from the same roll of film.

Unidentified woman

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Zimmerman/P-19194-27.jpg
Address: Not known
Date: 1950-06
P-19194 to P-19225 came from the same roll of film.

Unidentified woman, possibly Patty Highfield, Miss Greater Media

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Zimmerman/P-19194-26.jpg
Address: Not known
Date: 1950-06
P-19194 to P-19225 came from the same roll of film.

Unidentified man

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Address: Not known
Date: 1950-06
He is in what looks like a government office. He may be the man wearing the hat in P-19206.

Media Centennial Beard Contest.

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Date: 1950-06-09
Unidentified group of contestants and spectators. This is probably the night of the final judging, on the High School athletic field.