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Engle’s bakers

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-8308.jpg
Date: 1904-01-07
Seven men posed inside bakery, with gingerbread house(?) set on top of flour barrel. Harry P. Engle possibly one of the men.

Evan Simon, copy

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5819.jpg
Date: 1908-03-28
Photograph of drawing or watercolor.

Group of children near bridge carrying Baltimore Pike over Ridley Creek

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-01311A.jpg
Date: 1930 (circa)
Left to right: Howard Mulholland, Cyrus Mulholland, Ann Mulholland, *Dot Sullivan (now Freeman), Sis Redding, *Dorothy Harvey (now Leonard, whose father took the photo), William Dutton Mulholland, Jr., and Arthur George Thorp, Jr. (* = only ones…

Idlewild waiters

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-8383-2.jpg
Date: 1906-1907
16 African American men, possibly posed on porch of Idlewild Hotel. Several men blurry in this picture. See also AP-8383-1.

Idlewild waiters

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-8383-1.jpg
Date: 1906-1907
15 African American men, possibly posed on porch of Idlewild Hotel. See also AP_8383-2.

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…

Jamison baby, dead, in coffin

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5455.jpg
Address: Not Known
Date: 1904 (circa)

Joseph Benson

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5400.jpg
Location: Appleton Studio
Date: 1903 (circa)
Used in Soldiers’ and Sailors' Monument composites, AP-8248 and AP-8249, which were used in commemorative booklet for dedication of the monument in 1903

Little boy in jail, Pete

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5324-2.jpg
Date: 1905-08-02
This is probably a little boy named Pete, not Pete Little.

M. E. Elliot and Co., float

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-9022.jpg
Address: Not Known
Date: 1900
The company's float for the Media Semi-Centennial parade in 1900.

Media Base Ball Club of 1895

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5159-1.jpg
Location: Media (Pa.)
Date: 1895 (circa)
May be 1892. Same team as in AP-5214

Media Centennial Celebration. Borough Day. Evening events on High School field

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Zimmerman/ZM-3646.jpg
Date: 1950-06-09
Media Centennial Beard Contest. Charles Wray, winner of "Most Popular Beard," shakes hands with Elwood J. Benson.

Media Centennial Celebration. Civic Day. Evening program on the High School field

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Zimmerman/ZM-3456.jpg
Date: 1950-06-07
Media Centennial Beard Contest. Charles (left) and Elwood Benson, contestants in the whitest beard category.

Media Centennial Celebration. Civic Day. Evening program on the High School field

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Zimmerman/ZM-3459.jpg
Date: 1950-06-07
Media Centennial Beard Contest. Bearded men pretending to play brass instruments, while Elwood Benson pretends to conduct.

Media Centennial Celebration. Women's Day. Promenade of Yesteryear Parade

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Zimmerman/P-19195-28.jpg
Date: 1950-06-08
The float of the Campbell A.M.E. Church in Media had a replica of the original church building.

Media Centennial Celebration. Women's Day. Promenade of Yesteryear Parade

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Zimmerman/P-19195-32.jpg
Date: 1950-06-08
Sign on car: "Jefferson Harris [sic: Harrison], Delaware County's oldest Odd Fellow, 101 Yrs Young. Studebaker courtesy of Jessup & Pell, Inc." Harrison, of 214 Vernon Street, had lived most of his life in Virginia, where he had once been a slave.…

Media Future Forum Luncheon at the Towne House Restaurant

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-01156.jpg
Date: 1975 (circa)
Frank Lees caption: Left to right, standing: ?, Jim Loughrin, Willis Glen, Joseph Krug, Frank Ferguson. Seated: Esther Bell, ?, Mr. D'Ignazio. Envelope includes 35 mm negative strip with four other photos.

Media High School Class of 1898

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-8101-2.jpg
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.

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-8101-1.jpg
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 football team, 1927

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-15052.jpg
Date: 1927
With autographs of players on mat board. “Property of Roland D. Erskine Jr. 28”. Recap of 1927 season on reverse. Stored in Flat File 2

Media police

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5087.jpg
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…