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Union A.M.E. Church, interior
Location: Media (Pa.)
Date: 1897-01-08
This photo is the same building as AP-5162-1 and but different from AP-5161-5. Frank Lees, in From Media's Past (52), says that the Trinity U.A.M.E Church at 420 N. Olive St., built in 1893, was originally chartered in 1839 as the United A.M.E.…
Union A.M.E. Church, interior
Location: Media (Pa.)
Date: 1897-01-08
This photo like a different building from AP-5161-1 and AP-5116-2. Frank Lees, in From Media's Past, says that the Trinity U.A.M.E Church at 420 N. Olive St., built in 1893, was originally chartered in 1839 as the United A.M.E. Church in Marple…
Union A.M.E. Church, Interior
Location: Media (Pa.)
Date: 1895-1900
This photo appears to be a different building from AP-5162-1 and AP-5162-2. Frank Lees, in From Media's Past, says that the Trinity U.A.M.E Church at 420 N. Olive St., built in 1893, was originally chartered in 1839 as the United A.M.E. Church in…
St. David's Episcopal Church, Radnor
Address: 763 S. Valley Forge Rd., Wayne (Pa.)
Date: 1898 (circa)
The church is surrounded by a cemetery. Photograph used in the book Twice Adopted, by "En Quad" [Thomas R. Vernon]. Media, Pa.: Cooper & Vernon, Publishers, 1898, facing page 192. This novel tells the story of two adopted children in Media who grow…
St. David's Episcopal Church, Radnor
Address: 763 S. Valley Forge Rd., Wayne (Pa.)
Date: 1898 (circa)
The church is surrounded by a cemetery. Photograph used in the book Twice Adopted, by "En Quad" [Thomas R. Vernon]. Media, Pa.: Cooper & Vernon, Publishers, 1898, facing page 192. This novel tells the story of two adopted children in Media who grow…
Media Base Ball Club of 1895
Location: Media (Pa.)
Date: 1895-10-05
Same team as in AP-5158. See PH-15036 for a print with the players identified.
Media Base Ball Club of 1895
Location: Media (Pa.)
Date: 1895-10-05
Same team as in AP-5159. See PH-15036 for a print with the players identified.
Peach Bottom, steamboat or steamer, on the Susquehanna river
Location: Peach Bottom (Pa.)
Date: 1895-1900
Annie Haddock, sewing
Location: Media (Pa.)
Date: 1895-1900
Annie T. Haddock, sitting at a Household brand sewing machine, is listed as a dressmaker in the 1897 Media Directory. She was Deborah Appleton's sister.
Firemen boys
Location: Media (Pa.)
Date: 1895-1900
Boys dressed in fireman hats in carriage behind a mule or donkey
C. Redmon and wife
Location: Delaware County (Pa.)
Date: 1902 (circa)
Probably Charles or Charters Redmon and Hannah A. Logan Redmon, according to Sharpless Genealogy, p. 798 and Ogden Genealogy, p. 120-121. Parents of Dilwyn or Dillwyn Redmon; see AP-5374 and AP-4158. On a porch, with potted plants.
First Methodist Episcopal Church, interior, Christmas
Address: 350 W. State St., Media (Pa.)
Date: 1895-1900
First Methodist Episcopal Church, interior, Christmas
Address: 350 W. State St., Media (Pa.)
Date: 1895-1900
Decoration Day Parade, 1895. Bradbury Post
Date: 1895
Elevated view from southwest corner of W. State St. and S. Orange St., looking east. Holl's Jewelry store is on left; this is before the adjoining building to the east was constructed (see AP- 5140). Also shows willow trees in front of Charter House.
Decoration Day Parade, 1895. Cooper’s Rifles
Date: 1895
Elevated view from southwest corner of W. State St. and S. Orange St., looking east. Holl's Jewelry store is on left; this is before the adjoining building to the east was constructed (see AP- 5140). Also shows willow trees in front of Charter House.
Decoration Day Parade, 1895. Parade Band
Date: 1895
Elevated view from southwest corner of W. State St. and S. Orange St., looking east. Holl's Jewelry store is on left; this is before the adjoining building to the east was constructed (see AP- 5140). Also shows willow trees in front of Charter House.
Decoration Day Parade, 1895. T. School.
Date: 1895
Elevated view from southwest corner of W. State St. and S. Orange St., looking east. Holl's Jewelry store is on left; this is before the adjoining building to the east was constructed (see AP- 5140). Also shows willow trees in front of Charter House.…
Quinby hearse, for funerals
Address: 206 S. Orange St., Media (Pa.)
Date: 1895-1900
In front of business of “Mrs. A. J. Quinby & Sons, Funeral Directors." This building still stands and, in 2018, is still almost identical from the outside.
D. T. Thatcher, sewing
Address: 341 W. State St., Media (Pa.)
Date: 1895-1900
Probably a relative (aunt?) of Deborah Thatcher Haddock Appleton, wife of photographer. Possibly in Appleton home, as this is the same wallpaper and table as in AP-4017
Harry Appleton and Alfred Appleton, in woods near Media, Pa.
Location: Delaware County (Pa.)
Date: 1890-1895
The photographer's sons; Stephen Appleton is presumably the man behind the camera.