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African A.M.E. Church

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-01433C.jpg
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."

Campbell A.M.E. Church

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-4066.jpg
Date: 1889-01-19
This church stood on the south side of W. 3rd Street, between Orange St. and the former North Ave., now Broomall St. According to Frank Lees in From Media's Past (50), the cornerstone for the new church, at 3rd and Olive streets, was laid in 1930.

Pete Bland, murderer

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5041.jpg
Date: 1890-1900
Appleton cropped Pete Bland out of this football team photo, probably to use in the newspaper. (See Plate AP-4043, which is a portion of a full 5x7 plate, and according to Appleton's index, was originally plate AP-5041.) This had been identified as a…

Oxen team drawing wagon at northeast corner, Front and Orange streets

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-01275.jpg
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 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…

Wawa railroad station

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-4233.jpg
Date: 1892-05
This station once stood south of Route 1 along Chester Creek on west side of creek.

Decoration Day Parade, 1895. Parade Band

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5149.jpg
Date: 1895
Elevated view from southwest corner of W. State St. and S. Orange St., looking east. Holl's Jewelry store is on left; this is before the adjoining building to the east was constructed (see AP- 5140). Also shows willow trees in front of Charter House.

Ball & Rhodes yard

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5217.jpg
Date: 1895 (circa)

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

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…

Pete Bland, murderer, from football picture

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-4043.jpg
Date: 1895-1900
Extracted from football team photograph taken by the photographer at Glen Mills School. See full photo and note at AP-5041.

Band wagon

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-4044-2.jpg
Date: 1895-1900
See AP-4044-1 for a different band with caucasian players in the same or similar wagon. Charter House livery stable in background.

Union A.M.E. Church, Interior

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5161-5.jpg
Location: Media (Pa.)
Date: 1895-1900
This photo appears to be a different building from AP-5162-1 and AP-5162-2. Frank Lees, in From Media's Past, says that the Trinity U.A.M.E Church at 420 N. Olive St., built in 1893, was originally chartered in 1839 as the United A.M.E. Church in…

Duke Ivison

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-4075.jpg
Address: Not Known
Date: 1895-1900
This could either be Duke who worked for the Ivison's (who owned the Charter House), or Duke might be the name of the Ivison's dog.

Union A.M.E. Church, interior

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5162-1.jpg
Location: Media (Pa.)
Date: 1897-01-08
This photo like a different building from AP-5161-1 and AP-5116-2. Frank Lees, in From Media's Past, says that the Trinity U.A.M.E Church at 420 N. Olive St., built in 1893, was originally chartered in 1839 as the United A.M.E. Church in Marple…

Union A.M.E. Church, interior

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5162-2.jpg
Location: Media (Pa.)
Date: 1897-01-08
This photo is the same building as AP-5162-1 and but different from AP-5161-5. Frank Lees, in From Media's Past (52), says that the Trinity U.A.M.E Church at 420 N. Olive St., built in 1893, was originally chartered in 1839 as the United A.M.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 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.…

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.

Michener's Media Ice Company float

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-9021.jpg
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.

Cornboilers 1900

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-8076.jpg
Address: Not Known
Date: 1900
A group of Delaware County men who held an annual picnic.

Slap boy

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-4206.jpg
Date: 1900-07-15
Barefoot African-American boy. Probably in Appleton's backyard; same arbor as in AP-4001.