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Yacht Virginia, stern

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5257-2.jpg
Address: Not Known
Date: 1895-1900
Probably in Media. This is more a sailboat than a yacht, and is being stored in a yard. Shows a man with the boat, possibly the unidentified owner (of builder?).

Yacht Virginia, stern

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5257-1.jpg
Address: Not Known
Date: 1895-1900
Probably in Media. This is more a sailboat than a yacht, and is being stored in a yard. The unidentified owner (perhaps builder) of this boat appears in some of the pictures.

Yacht Virginia, bow

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5256-2.jpg
Address: Not Known
Date: 1895-1900
Probably in Media. This is more a sailboat than a yacht, and is being stored in a yard. Shows a man with the boat, possibly the unidentified owner (of builder?).

Yacht Virginia, bow

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5256-1.jpg
Address: Not Known
Date: 1895-1900
Probably in Media. This is more a sailboat than a yacht, and is being stored in a yard. The unidentified owner (perhaps builder) of this boat appears in some of the pictures.

Media Fire Company wagon made by Media Carriage Co.

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5255.jpg
Date: 1895-1900
Photographed outside the Media Carriage Co. building. See also AP-5796

First Methodist Episcopal Church, Media, Frank Williamson's class

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5254-3.jpg
Date: 1895-1900
Probably a Sunday School class

First Methodist Episcopal Church, Media, Frank Williamson's class

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5254-2.jpg
Date: 1895-1900
Probably a Sunday School class

First Methodist Episcopal Church, Media, Frank Williamson's class

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5254-1.jpg
Date: 1895-1900
Probably a Sunday School class

Susquehanna River

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5253.jpg
Date: 1895-1900
In Pennsylvania or Maryland, perhaps near Peach Bottom or Port Deposit; see photos of these places elsewhere in this collection.

Clifton Road

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5252-2.jpg
Address: Not Known
Date: 1895-1900
These photographs may have been taken to document the condition of the road, for a legal case. Shows extremely rough, unpaved surface. Possibly Clifton Avenue, in Delaware County?

Clifton Road

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5252-1.jpg
Address: Not Known
Date: 1895-1900
These photographs may have been taken to document the condition of the road, for a legal case. Shows extremely rough, unpaved surface. Possibly Clifton Avenue, in Delaware County?

Vernon house, with D. A. Vernon and horse

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5251.jpg
Address: Not Known
Date: 1895-1900
Appleton's index entry is hard to decipher, but this man is definitely not D. A. Vernon, who died in 1888; this is probably D. A. Vernon's horse. Same residence and same day as in AP-5133 and AP-5230. Possibly in Upper Providence.

Thomas Rufus Vernon, Sr.

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5250.jpg
Location: Appleton Studio
Date: 1895-1900
Full name from an application for Sons of the American Revolution found on findagrave.com 77996897, which gives detailed information about several generations of the Vernon family.

Union M.E. Church, exterior

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5248-1.jpg
Date: 1897-01-08

Tuckerman children, with woman, probably mother

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5247-2.jpg
Date: 1895-1900
One boy in sailor's suit

Tuckerman children, with woman, probably mother

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5247-1.jpg
Date: 1895-1900
One boy in sailor's suit

Shoemakerville Hill

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5246.jpg
Date: 1895-1900
This hill and bridge are on Providence Road or Route 320, as it crosses Ridley Creek, which is the border between Chester and Nether Providence Township, Pa. See AP-5132-1 for same view taken same day.

Carey’s cactus

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5245.jpg
Date: 1895-1900
1892 map of Media shows that E. Carey had a greenhouse behind his house at N. Jackson and Carbon St. so it is likely that this picture was taken at that location.

Chester Sugar Refining

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5244.jpg
Date: 1895-1900
Sign on building: “For sale, wharves and buildings. Apply to Samuel Lyons, Market Square.” Avenue of the States was formerly called Market St.

Carey’s night blooming cereus

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5243.jpg
Date: 1895-1900
1893 map of Media shows that E. Carey had a greenhouse behind his house at N. Jackson and Carbon St. so it is likely that this picture was taken at that location.

Watterson murder, "Rhoads & Geary"

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5242-3.jpg
Date: 1895
Possibly a re-enactment of the Watterson murder. Rhodes and Geary were attorneys for the defendant, John Miller.

Watterson murder, "Rhoads & Geary"

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5242-2.jpg
Date: 1895
Possibly a re-enactment of the Watterson murder. Rhodes and Geary were attorneys for the defendant, John Miller.

Watterson murder, "Rhoads & Geary"

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5242-1.jpg
Date: 1895
Possibly a re-enactment of the Watterson murder. Rhodes and Geary were attorneys for the defendant, John Miller.

Broomall's Dam

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5241.jpg
Date: 1895-1900
Formerly Media Swimming and Rowing Club, now Broomall's Lake Country Club

Rowland house or Vernon house

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5240.jpg
Address: Not Known
Date: 1895-1900
A flower bed is in the foreground, with a vine-covered porch on the house. Appleton initialed this in the lower left corner.