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Back road to Media
Location: Media (Pa.)
Date: 1900 (circa)
Frank Lees caption: "Possibly Park Avenue at Gayley Street." If this is accurate the view would be looking down Park Avenue from Gayley.
Nighttime on State Street, looking west from Jackson Street
Date: 1960 (circa)
Copy of original photo; source not noted
Looking west at northwest corner of State and Olive streets
Date: 1940 (circa)
View includes, from east to west, Media Drug Stores, Arcadia Restaurant, former Pastime Theater, State Grille Restaurant, Snowden's Hardware, and other stores beyond.
Group of children near bridge carrying Baltimore Pike over Ridley Creek
Date: 1930 (circa)
Left to right: Howard Mulholland, Cyrus Mulholland, Ann Mulholland, *Dot Sullivan (now Freeman), Sis Redding, *Dorothy Harvey (now Leonard, whose father took the photo), William Dutton Mulholland, Jr., and Arthur George Thorp, Jr. (* = only ones…
Edgemont Street looking north from 2nd Street
Date: 1975 (circa)
See P-10308a and P-01308B for views of the house with the tower in the left center of this photograph.
House at 218 N. Edgemont Street, Media, Pa.
Address: 218 N. Edgemont St., Media (Pa.)
Date: 1975 (circa)
Caption by Frank Lees: "Edgemont St., S.W. from 3rd and Edgemont." This house no longer stands, but its location was confirmed by comparing the house in the background of P-01308B with the one that still stands (in 2020) at 206 N. Edgemont. The…
House at 218 N. Edgemont Street, Media, Pa.
Address: 218 N. Edgemont St., Media (Pa.)
Date: 1975 (circa)
Caption by Frank Lees: "Edgemont St., S.W. from 3rd and Edgemont." This house no longer stands, but its location was confirmed by comparing the house in the background of P-01308B with the one that still stands (in 2020) at 206 N. Edgemont. The…
Media Borough Hall, shortly before demolition.
Date: 1969 (circa)
View looking northeast from southwest corner of State and Jackson streets.
Media Borough Hall, shortly before demolition.
Date: 1969 (circa)
View looking northeast from southwest corner of State and Jackson streets.
Media Borough Hall, shortly before demolition.
Date: 1969 (circa)
View looking northeast from southwest corner of State and Jackson streets.
Media Borough Hall (rear) and Media Free Library, shortly before demolition.
Date: 1969 (circa)
The former Media Free Library, at Jasper and Jackson streets, was then behind used as a temporary home for the borough government office. View is looking southeast from west side of Jackson Street.
Media Borough Hall, shortly before demolition
Date: 1969-03-18
Also in this view, looking north at the east side of Jackson Street, are the old Media Free Library, the new firehouse, and Fish Jewelers.
Sign for Baker Street Urban Renewal Area
Location: Media (Pa.)
Date: 1969 (circa)
Sign reads: Baker Street Urban Renewal Area. Project No. PA. R-248. A project of the Redevelopment Authority of the County of Delaware and the Borough of Media. This urban renewal project is being undertaken with Federal financial aid under Title 1…
Plumstead Inn, southwest corner of Plum and State streets
Date: 1968-07
Demolished in 1968 as part of Media's Urban Renewal project.
Plumstead Inn and Tancreed's, State Street at Plum Street, south side
Date: 1968-07
Frank Lees caption: In July 1968 the Plumstead Inn and Tancreed's Dress Store were about to be torn down, for the relocation of Plum Street and the building of the First Keystone Federal Savings Bank. The building that house Tancreed's had earlier…
Looking north on South Avenue from Jefferson Street
Date: 1900 (circa)
Frank Lees caption: The Delaware County Court House can be seen through the trees. A mailman rides his bicycle with the mail. The trolley tracks carried the trolley from Orange and Lincoln St. to Front Street, then on to Chester. Copy of original…
George W. Tipping, in front of J. H. Tipping, Paperhanging, at 132 S. Orange Street
Address: 132 South Orange St., Media (Pa.)
Date: 1942 (circa)
This building was demolished as part of Media's urban renewal project. J. H. stands for J. Harry. See also P-01045C. Copy of original photo; source not noted
Miller House
Address: 301 N. Jackson St., Media (Pa.)
Date: 1890-1900
Property of William H. Miller. For similar, see AP-4127. Copy of original photo; source not noted
Orange Street at looking south from Franklin Street, after heavy snowfall
Date: 1920 (circa)
Copy of original photo; source not noted
Media Carriage Works, south side of State Street between Edgemont and Radnor streets
Address: 216 E. State St., Media (Pa.)
Date: 1892 (circa)
Frank Lees caption: Lines Motors and Walsh Ford later occupied this location. Copy of original photo; source not noted
South Avenue (now Veterans Square) looking north from Baltimore Avenue toward the Delaware Court House, after heavy snowfall
Date: 1966-12
Besides the Court House, the photograph shows The Towne House restaurant, Provident National Building, and (left) the Bell Telephone building.
Franklin Street, looking west from South Avenue toward Orange Street, after heavy snowfall
Date: 1966-12
Hillhurst is the house on Orange Street in the center of the picture. David Jefferis lived there in December 1966, and probably took this photograph
Uneeda Biscuit sign uncovered, northwest corner Front and Jackson streets
Date: 1989-08
Frank Lees caption reads in part: Sweeney's Market once occupied [this corner]. When Bill Battey's Sporting Goods remodeled the building they uncovered this advertisement on the side of the building. After the photograph was taken, they covered the…