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Borough of Media Highway Crew
Location: Media (Pa.)
Date: 1944-11-16
Caption on reverse: 11-16-44. Gouldey says "One look at this gang and Baldy will be glad he is still in the Pacific." Do you remember "Old Dad" and "Slim" the colored fellows. On a card identifying this picture: Left to right: Slim, Bill Gibson, Bill…
Media High School football team, 1927
Address: 120 E. Front St., Media (Pa.)
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
Unidentified baseball team
Location: Delaware County (Pa.)
Date: 1945 (circa)
Photograph removed from frame, but print is stuck to the glass. Scanned through glass. Stored in Misc. Glass Negatives Box
African A.M.E. Church
Date: 1880 (circa)
Back of card reads: "Thirty minutes by R.R. from Philadelphia. Media and Vicinity. Photographed by Samuel McMullin, Landscape Photographer, No. 1128 South Ninth Street, Philadelphia. Taken by request of James R. Cummins, Residence, Media, Penna."
Oxen team drawing wagon at northeast corner, Front and Orange streets
Date: 1890-1900
Delaware County Court House is in background. African-American man is tending the four oxen. Two children look on in the background.
Media Future Forum Luncheon at the Towne House Restaurant
Address: 117 Veterans Sq., Media (Pa.)
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.
4th of July on Media Athletic Field (now Barrall Field)
Date: 1960 (circa)
Three unidentified girls, one African-American, possibly winners of pie-eating contest.
Media Centennial Celebration. Borough Day. Evening events on High School field
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
Date: 1950-06-07
Media Centennial Beard Contest. Bearded men pretending to play brass instruments, while Elwood Benson pretends to conduct.
Media Centennial Celebration. Civic Day. Evening program on the High School field
Date: 1950-06-07
Media Centennial Beard Contest. Charles (left) and Elwood Benson, contestants in the whitest beard category.
Staff of Motor Sales Inc. of Media, in front of 30-34 E. State Street
Address: 34 E. State St., Media (Pa.)
Date: 1950 (circa)
Caption calls this "Miley & Brown, Chrysler and Plymouth."
Media Centennial Celebration. Women's Day. Promenade of Yesteryear Parade
Address: State St., Media (Pa.)
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 Centennial Celebration. Women's Day. Promenade of Yesteryear Parade
Address: State St., Media (Pa.)
Date: 1950-06-08
The float of the Campbell A.M.E. Church in Media had a replica of the original church building.
Group of children near bridge carrying Baltimore Pike over Ridley Creek
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…
Michener's Media Ice Company float
Date: 1900
This was the float for the Media Semi-Centennial parade in 1900. This company was later known as the Media Coal and Ice Co.
Conway’s Oliver
Location: Delaware County (Pa.)
Date: 1909-05-15
This is likely a man named Oliver who was a servant or farmhand for the Conway family. He is sitting at the entrance to unknown property 1; see AP-9055, AP-9055-1 and AP-9055-2
Idlewild waiters
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.