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Delaware County Record newspaper office
Address: 114 W. Front St., Media (Pa.)
Date: 1890-1900
1902 Media Directory lists the address as 114 W. Front St. Sign on building says E. Front St., indicating that it was taken before the center of the house numbering system in Media was shifted from South Ave. to Jackson St. Negative smashed and…
Engle’s bakery, southwest corner, State and Orange.
Address: 218 W. State St., Media (Pa.)
Date: 1895-1900
Sign on side of building reads: H. P. Engle Ice Cream Parlor. Signs in adjacent storefronts include Phila. Laundry, and Branch Office, Metropolitan Life Insurance Co.
Fairmount Dam
Date: 1895-1900
This view, of the Fairmount Dam and Water Works and the Callowhill St. Bridge, was taken from a boathouse ramp above the dam on the Schuylkill River. Two steamboats are moored above dam, and the roof of a bathing pavilion is visible below dam. Sewer…
Folsom accident, with trolley tracks
Address: Folsom, Delaware County (Pa.)
Date: 1904-1905
Photography likely taken in support of a legal case regarding a trolley accident at this location.
H. F. Palmer store, probably in Morton
Location: Morton (Delaware County, Pa.)
Date: 1905-1909
H. F. Palmer is listed in Morton, PA in Chester Times, March 25, 1916, p. 14
Harp Property, Glenolden
Date: 1903 (circa)
This series of photos was most likely taken as part of the legal case involving Mr. Harp, as noted in the Chester Times of May 13,1903: "The jury of view in the case of L. L. Harp vs. the borough of Glenolden to recover damages for the change of…
Harp Property, Glenolden
Date: 1903 (circa)
See note at AP-8267. Signs read: “L. L. Harp, Practical Blacksmith, Jobbing of all Kinds, Carriage Painting and Repairing”
Henry C. Snowden, Jr. Hardware, window
Address: 115 W. State St., Media (Pa.)
Date: 1909 (circa)
Advertising "Muresco for wall and ceiling decoration. Superior to Kalsomite or any other wall finish. Manufactured by Benjamin Moore & Co., New York and Chicago."
Holl Building
Address: 217 W. State St., Media (Pa.)
Date: 1895-1900
Emil Holl ran a jewelry business at this location. See AP-5128 for information on this circle picture.
Holl’s unfinished building
Address: 217 W. State St., Media (Pa.)
Date: 1895-1900
On State Street, north side, east of Orange St. Building under construction, with masons at work.
Ivy Mills
Date: 1890-1900
A few walls of this 1829 factory, in ruins even when Appleton photographed it, still stand (2018) as part of the Ivy Mills National Historic District, in Concord Township. The ruins of the former paper mill, built by the Willcox family, are located…
Ivy-covered ruins
Address: Not Known
Date: 1900-1908
Looks to have once been a large factory or mill building. Possibly related to Ivy Mills; see AP-5062.
J. H. Sloan, Media Odorless Excavator Company
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…
Kirschnek store
Address: 108 W. State St., Media (Pa.)
Date: 1889-01-19
John Kirschnek had a jewelry store at 108 W. State St., according to 1902 Media Directory; his store may have been successor to J. S. Chapman, shown in this picture. Also shown are the Burdsall & Adams Segar or Cigar Manufacturers at 106 W. State,…
Media Club house
Address: 116 W. Baltimore Ave, Media (Pa.)
Date: 1890-1900
This building housed the Media Club. The building still stands (2018) although the club no longer exists.
Media Ledger building
Address: 2 W. State St., Media (Pa.)
Date: 1898 (circa)
Photographed from upper window of Media Borough Hall
Media Ledger building and P. W. Ware Plumbing
Address: 2 W. State St., Media (Pa.)
Date: 1898 (circa)
Media Ledger building, State and Jackson
Address: 2 W. State St., Media (Pa.)
Date: 1895-1900
View taken looking from above and across the intersection from a window in the old Borough Hall.
Media Restaurant, southwest corner, State and Orange
Address: 300 W. State St., Media (Pa.)
Date: 1908 (circa)
Address either 100 S. Orange St. or 300 W. State St. Other buildings in photo are 102 S. Orange (to left, with possibly a tailor shop of (Israel?) Menges, ("Repairing...Neatly...Done"), and 306 W. State St. to right, S. P. Rush's store (see AP-5047…