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  • Collection: I. Frank Lees Photograph Collection
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584. Shopping. 300 block Market St., Chester

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Location: Chester (Pa.)
Date: 1955-08
Market Street is now Avenue of the States. Third street no longer intersects this street. Location uncertain.

585. Commercial. Commission Row, 200 block Edgmont, Chester. To be redeveloped.

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Date: 1955-08
Edgmont and 2nd Street no longer intersect. Address is approximate.

586. Chester municipal lot, near P.R.R., west of business district

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Location: Chester (Pa.)
Date: 1955-08
Sign reads: "Shop in Chester. 10 cents for 3 hours." Exact location uncertain.

587. Railroad. Pennsylvania railroad at Market St., Chester

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Date: 1955-08
Location based on newspaper research for The Hat Corner.

588. Shopping. 600 block Edgmont Ave., Chester

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Date: 1955-08

590. William Penn Homes, Chester

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Location: Chester (Pa.)
Date: 1955-08
Exact location uncertain

593. Row, new. Near Honan St., Chester.

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Date: 1955-08
Address is approximate

594. Row, new. Honan St., Chester

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Date: 1955-08
Corner of Honan and Lehman streets.

596. Row, 1954. Concord Park on Bethel Road, Chester

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Location: Chester (Pa.)
Date: 1955-08
Exact location uncertain. Perhaps Peoples St. or Coples St.

597. Row, 1954. Rear, Bethel Road, Concord Park, Chester

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Location: Chester (Pa.)
Date: 1955-08
Exact location uncertain. Perhaps Peoples St. or Coples St.

601. Industry. From Naaman's Creek Rd., Upper Chichester Township

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Date: 1955-08
Exact location uncertain.

602. Industry and Residential. Off Cherry Tree Rd., Aston Township

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Location: Aston (Pa.)
Date: 1955-08
Exact location uncertain.

603. Industry and Residential. Cherry Tree Rd. and Chester-Concord Rd., Aston Township. Water tanks of Chester.

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Date: 1955-08
Tanks are for the water supply of Chester, through the Chester Water Authority.

612. Construction. Lawrence Park, Marple Township

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Date: 1955-09
Houses under construction. Exact location uncertain.

640. Darby Creek, north of Bryn Mawr Ave., Radnor Township

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Date: 1955-09
Location uncertain. This may be the bridge on Goshen Road or on Saw Mill Road at Darby Paoli Road.

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.

654. Street. Harper and State Rd., Drexel Hill. Slight jog, faulty planning.

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Date: 1955-09
This jog still exists as of this writing, in 2020.

656. Row, old. N. Lawrence Rd., across from Lynnewood School, Havertown

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Date: 1955-09
Address is for the closest house in the row.

659. Park. Wissahickon at Valley Green.

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Date: 1955-09
Valley Green Inn is in the background. The address is for this location. The Wissahickon Valley is part of Fairmount Park.

660. Park. Wissahickon.

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Date: 1955-09
The Wissahickon Valley is part of Fairmount Park.

69th Street Trolley at Pine Ridge Station

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Date: 1950
Copy of original photo; source not noted

741. Industry. Newtown Square

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Date: 1956 (circa)
Location uncertain.

743. Darby Creek, Tinicum Marsh

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Date: 1956 (circa)
Delaware River and Little Tinicum Island are in the distance. This view may have been taken from over Folcroft.

744. Industry. Marcus Hook

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Date: 1956 (circa)
Exact location uncertain.

745. Row, new. Near Hook Road, Darby Township

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Location: Darby (Pa.)
Date: 1956-09
Exact location uncertain.