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Media Carriage Works, sanitation, “honey dippers” wagon for emptying cesspools. Belonged to Mr. Sloan
Address: 216 E. State St., Media (Pa.)
Date: 1898 (circa)
Jesse Sloan owned the Media Odorless Excavator Company.
Media Carriage Works, sanitation, “honey dippers” wagon for emptying cesspools. Belonged to Mr. Sloan
Address: 216 E. State St., Media (Pa.)
Date: 1898 (circa)
Jesse Sloan owned the Media Odorless Excavator Company.
Media Club house
Address: 116 W. Baltimore Ave, Media (Pa.)
Date: 1890-1900
This building housed the Media Club. The building still stands (2018) although the club no longer exists.
Media Fire Company
Date: 1902 (circa)
Two horse-drawn fire wagons photographed on the State St. side of Borough Hall, which housed the fire company in the first floor.
Media Fire Company engine
Date: 1902 (circa)
Engines is photographed on Jackson Street side of Media Ledger building at 2 W. Jackson St.
Media Fire Company hook and ladder truck
Address: 11 W. State St., Media (Pa.)
Date: 1893-1895
Frank Lees caption: “Media’s first ladder wagon ca. 1895 shown in front of Way House, 11 W. State St., location of Media Office Supply.”
Media Fire Company hose carriage
Date: 1901-10-02
Photographed on the State St side of the old Borough Hall, which housed the fire company on the first floor. A memorial portrait for William McKinley, recently assassinated, hangs in the doorway of the Media Free Library, which had space upstairs.…
Media Fire Company No. 1, fire hose carriage, old
Address: 16 West State St., Media (Pa.)
Date: 1892 (circa)
Original post office, located at Plum and State, is on right. Highbarger & Lynch Furniture, "on State St. near Plum," on left. Modern prints in Photo Folder 7053, captioned by Frank Lees: “Media’s first fire house and first piece of fire equipment is…
Media Fire Company wagon made by Media Carriage Co.
Address: 216 E. State St., Media (Pa.)
Date: 1895-1900
Photographed outside the Media Carriage Co. building. See also AP-5796
Media Fire Company, parading in front of Charter House
Address: 201 W. State St., Media (Pa.)
Date: 1901-10-02
Firemen in uniform; onlookers include numerous children; Charter House willows in full leaf.
Media Fire Company, parading in front of Charter House
Address: 201 W. State St., Media (Pa.)
Date: 1901-10-02
Firemen in uniform; onlookers include numerous children; Charter House willows in full leaf.
Media high railroad bridge
Date: 1903-11-01
View looking south from bridge showing Water Works, covered bridge at Baltimore Pike and view up the Ridley Creek valley. A trolley line crosses the creek in front of the covered bridge.
Media high railroad bridge
Date: 1903-11-02
View looking south from bridge showing Water Works, covered bridge at Baltimore Pike, and view up the Ridley Creek valley. A trolley line crosses the creek in front of the covered bridge.
Media high railroad bridge over Ridley Creek looking toward Media Station
Date: 1895-1900
See AP-5128 for information on this circle picture.
Media high railroad bridge, diagonal
Date: 1900 (circa)
Locomotive 177, pulling three passenger cars; stopped on bridge. Probably "P.W.&B. R.R. " [Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad]
Media high railroad bridge, diagonal
Date: 1900 (circa)
Locomotive 177, pulling three passenger cars; stopped on bridge. Probably "P.W.&B. R.R." [Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad]
Media high railroad bridge, old
Location: Media (Pa.)
Date: 1898 (circa)
Same view as AP-4114. Trestle on SEPTA Media Elwyn Line, crossing Ridley Creek
Media high railroad bridge, side
Date: 1900 (circa)
Locomotive 177, pulling three passenger cars; stopped on bridge. Shows original stone piers for bridge, the supports of which are steel in this photo.