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- Collection: Stephen H. Appleton Photograph Collection
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Media high railroad bridge, top
Date: 1900 (circa)
Looking northwest; shows Elwyn Institute buildings in distance
Media High School Class of 1898
Date: 1898
Albert W. Appleton, the photographer's son, is in center, rear. According to an account in the Philadelphia Times on June 27, 1898, the other graduates were: Cora Adele Jobson, Marion E. Abel, Elizabeth Miller McDowell, Mamie J. Lobb, Mary E.…
Media High School Class of 1898.
Date: 1898
Albert W. Appleton, the photographer's son, is in center, rear. According to an account in the Philadelphia Times on June 27, 1898, the other graduates were: Cora Adele Jobson, Marion E. Abel, Elizabeth Miller McDowell, Mamie J. Lobb, Mary E.…
Media High School students
Date: 1900-1909
Probably graduates of Media High School. Photographed at same location as AP-8101-1, which shows the MHS Class of 1898.
Media Ledger building
Address: 2 W. State St., Media (Pa.)
Date: 1898 (circa)
Photographed from upper window of Media Borough Hall
Media Ledger building and P. W. Ware Plumbing
Address: 2 W. State St., Media (Pa.)
Date: 1898 (circa)
Media Ledger building, State and Jackson
Address: 2 W. State St., Media (Pa.)
Date: 1895-1900
View taken looking from above and across the intersection from a window in the old Borough Hall.
Media Orthodox Friends Meeting, 3rd and North Ave.
Address: 125 W. 3rd St., Media (Pa.)
Date: 1889-01-01
This complex now includes Media-Providence Friends School. North Avenue no longer exists.
Media Orthodox Friends Meeting, 3rd and North Ave.
Address: 125 W. 3rd St., Media (Pa.)
Date: 1889-01-01
This complex now includes Media-Providence Friends School. North Avenue no longer exists.
Media police
Location: Media (Pa.)
Date: 1891-09-21
Chief of police flanked by four officers, including one whom is African-American. Names, according to Frank Lees, in From Media's Past (45), are Hoopes, Rodenboh [probably Rodenbaugh], Chief McKniff, Sherlock, and Turner. Lees says the picture was…
Media Post Office, interior. State and Plum, ca. 1905
Address: 18 W. State St., Media (Pa.)
Date: 1905 (circa)
Furnishings "Designed and manufactured by the I. B. Williams Co., Seward, Nebraska"
Media railroad bridge, perspective
Date: 1890-1900
Looking from trestle over Ridley Creek toward Elwyn Institute, in distance
Media railroad station
Address: 301 Media Station Rd., Media (Pa.)
Date: 1889 (circa)
Used in “Media, Penna.” publication, 1889, p. 42
Media railroad station water tank, east
Address: 301 Media Station Rd., Media (Pa.)
Date: 1900 (circa)
Media railroad station water tank, front
Address: 301 Media Station Rd., Media (Pa.)
Date: 1900 (circa)
Media railroad station water tank, west
Address: 301 Media Station Rd., Media (Pa.)
Date: 1900 (circa)
