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123. Multi Garden new. Drexelbrook

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Date: 1954-07
Address is approximate

Unknown house, possibly Darby or Chester

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Date: 1954-07
No label on slide. Possibly 800 block of W. Mary St., Chester

155. Garden land. 1000 block Linden Ave., Darby Township

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Date: 1954-07
Exact location uncertain

157. Rear house privy. 900 block Olive St., Darby Township

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Date: 1954-07
Address unknown

158. Corner Linden St. and Calcon Hook Road, Darby Township

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Date: 1954-07
Linden Avenue and Calcon Hook Road no longer intersect.

160. 1000 block Jackson St., Darby Township

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Date: 1954-07
May be in Collingdale, Pa.

165. 900 block Burton St., Darby Township

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Date: 1954-07
Address uncertain

168. Detached, old. 100 block Walter Ave., Darby Township

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Date: 1954-07
Address uncertain

173. 300 block of unnamed street, Darby Township

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Date: 1954-07
Label illegible

Juanita Edwards

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Date: 1955
Daughter of Mary M. Edwards. On a swing at Media Friends School, winter of 1955

Southeast corner, State and Church streets

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Date: 1955 (circa)
Small house, 28 E. State St., was demolished.

Rotary Club of Media

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Location: Media (Pa.)
Date: 1955 (circa)
Left to right: John Tipping, ? , ? , Bill Vivian

Media Free Library Doll Display

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Date: 1955 (circa)
Mary Williamson, wife of board member C. Frank Williamson, is showing the doll to a woman and two Girl Scouts. These dolls (as of 2019) are in the collection of the Media Historic Archives Commission.

646. Industry. Curtis Publishing Co., Sharon Hill

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Date: 1955 (circa)
This building now (2020) in an enlarged industrial park, houses the Delaware County Community College - Southeast Center.

533. Highway. Providence Rd. north of Sandy Bank School, Upper Providence Township.

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Date: 1955-06
Shows children crossing the road to get to the Sandy Bank School.

536. Open. On Providence Rd., south of Edgmont

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Date: 1955-06
Shows open land in Edgmont Township. Exact location uncertain.

538. Shopping center. Looking east on West Chester Pike, Newtown Square.

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Date: 1955-06

539. Shopping center. Looking east on West Chester Pike, Newtown Square.

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Date: 1955-06

540. Detached, new. Broomall, W. Ann Rd.

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Date: 1955-06
Exact location uncertain

541. Detached, new. Broomall, Sylvan Drive

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Date: 1955-06
Exact location uncertain

545. Shopping. On West Chester Pike, Broomall.

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Date: 1955-06
Broomall Barber Shop and Tony's Shoe Store. Datestone in building reads: Isaac Lawrence, 1817. According to the 1909 Mueller Atlas, Plate 30, this building stood on the northeast corner of the intersection of West Chester Pike and Sproul Road. See…

459. Highway. In East Lansdowne, looking east on Baltimore Pike

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Date: 1955-08
View is from railroad bridge that once crossed Baltimore Avenue just west of Hirst Avenue. Lansdowne Ice & Coal Company, on the right side of the photo, was at 500 E. Baltimore Avenue, opposite Melrose Avenue. Address is approximate.

460. Delaware County Highway. Baltimore Pike, at Lansdowne Ave., looking east

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Date: 1955-08
Looking east on Baltimore Avenue from Lansdowne Avenue. Of all the buildings on the left side of the photo, only the church is still standing.

461. Shopping Center. On Baltimore Pike at Gladstone

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Date: 1955-08

462. Highway. Looking west on Baltimore Pike at Gladstone

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Date: 1955-08
Looking across Darby Creek into Clifton Heights. The Family Drive-In (movie theater) is on the right, playing "Three Coins in the Fountain."