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Swayne dog

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-4204.jpg
Address: Not Known
Date: 1895-1900

Harry Swayne on horse

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-4203-1.jpg
Date: 1895-1900

Smedley Christmas board

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-4202.jpg
Address: Not Known
Date: 1895-1900

Sharpless Rock

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-4201.jpg
Address: Not Known
Date: 1895-1900
Rock still sits somewhere near Ridley Creek; "J. S. 1682" is carved into top of rock.

Steamboat “City of Chester”, on the Delaware River

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-4200.jpg
Date: 1895-1900
Launched May 2, 1888 from Harlan and Hollingsworth shipyard, in Wilmington

J. H. Sloan, Media Odorless Excavator Company

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-4199.jpg
Date: 1895-1900
Probably an employee and not Sloan, the owner, at the reins of the horse. This was an early version of a septic tank cleaning service, which used vacuum pumps to remove the contents of outhouses and cesspools before a public sewer system was…

Stiff, Dead Gentleman, 1-26-89, 9:15 A.M.

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-4198-1.jpg
Address: Not Known
Date: 1889-01-26

Sloan’s barn under construction, Baltimore Pike east of Beatty Road

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-4197.jpg
Date: 1899-12-27
This looks like the barn could have been under reconstruction after a fire. 1892 Media map shows the M. W. Sloan estate at this location.

West State Street, looking west from Lemon Street, 11:05 A.M.

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-4196.jpg
Date: 1888-11-28

Sue Appleton, Christmas tree

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-4195.jpg
Date: 1899-12-27
The photographer's daughter at the family's Christmas tree.

Sue Appleton, surprised in high chair

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-4194.jpg
Date: 1898 (circa)
The photographer's daughter.

Sue Appleton, 8-1/2 months old

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-4193.jpg
Location: Media (Pa.)
Date: 1897
The photographer's daughter

Sue Appleton, quad

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-4192-1.jpg
Location: Media (Pa.)
Date: 1898 (circa)
The photographer's daughter. Four exposures on one plate

Sue Appleton, quad

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-4192.jpg
Location: Media (Pa.)
Date: 1898 (circa)
The photographer's daughter. Four exposures on one plate

Sue Appleton, crooked mouth

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-4190.jpg
Date: 1898 (circa)
The photographer's daughter.

Sue Appleton, one week

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-4189-1.jpg
Location: Media (Pa.)
Date: 1896-11-16
The photographer's daughter. Masking paint hides same woman as in AP-4185. This photo is clearly the same say as that one, though the dates in the index differ by a week.

Sue Appleton, one week

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-4189.jpg
Date: 1896-11-16
The photographer's daughter.

Sue Appleton, with little coach or baby carriage, with doll

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-4188.jpg
Date: 1900-07-15
The photographer's daughter.

Sue Appleton, in gally hat?

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-4187.jpg
Date: 1901-04-10
The photographer's daughter.

Sue Appleton, at little store

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-4186.jpg
Date: 1900-08-10
The photographer's daughter.

Sue Appleton, in Miss? Megs? Curtis' lap

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-4185.jpg
Date: 1896-11-23
The photographer's daughter.

Sue Appleton, in coach or baby carriage

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-4184-1.jpg
Date: 1897-07-10
The photographer's daughter.

Sue Appleton, in coach or baby carriage

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-4184.jpg
Date: 1897-07-10
The photographer's daughter.

Sue Appleton, in high chair

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-4183.jpg
Location: Appleton Studio
Date: 1897-06-05
The photographer's daughter.

Sue Appleton, in coach or baby carriage, head only

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-4182.jpg
Date: 1897-07-10
The photographer's daughter.