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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.
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.
Quinby hearse, for funerals
Address: 206 S. Orange St., Media (Pa.)
Date: 1895-1900
In front of business of “Mrs. A. J. Quinby & Sons, Funeral Directors." This building still stands and, in 2018, is still almost identical from the outside.
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.
Schuchardt store or barber shop and J. Sweeny Shoe Store
Address: 122 S. Orange St., Media (Pa.)
Date: 1895-1900
According to 1897 Media Directory, George Schuchardt had a barber shop at this location. Tall barber pole in front, and horse hitching post. At 124 S. Orange, sign in window reads: J. Sweeny Shoe Store.
Schuchardt store or barber shop and J. Sweeny Shoe Store
Address: 122 S. Orange St., Media (Pa.)
Date: 1895-1900
According to 1897 Media Directory, George Schuchardt had a barber shop at this location.
Boyer’s store
Address: 9 E. State St., Media (Pa.)
Date: 1895-1900
On sign: “Boyer & Co. Up to Date Store. Ladies and Gents Furnishings”
Boyer’s store
Address: 9 E. State St., Media (Pa.)
Date: 1895-1900
On sign: “Boyer & Co. Up to Date Store. Ladies and Gents Furnishings”
Delaware County American, office staff
Address: 212 W. State St., Media (Pa.)
Date: 1905 (circa)
Cord for shutter release visible in the photographer's hand.
P. W. Ware’s plumbing store
Address: 4 W. State St., Media (Pa.)
Date: 1895-1900
Signs read: P. W. Ware, Hot Water Heating, Sanitary Plumbing. Plumbing, Heaters. Media Ledger building to the left.
Rorer’s store
Address: 201 S. Orange St., Media (Pa.)
Date: 1895-1900
Photo includes other buildings on either side of the store, at the southeast corner of Baltimore Pike and Orange St. Similar to and probably used as basis for engraving in “Media, Penna.” publication, 1889, p. 29. All the buildings in this photograph…
Burdsall & Adams, cigar manufacturer
Address: 106 W. State St., Media (Pa.)
Date: 1895-1900
Similar to photograph in “Media, Penna.” publication, 1889, p. 35
Media Ledger building and P. W. Ware Plumbing
Address: 2 W. State St., Media (Pa.)
Date: 1898 (circa)
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…
Rigby, white wagon with horse and man
Address: 110 W. State St., Media (Pa.)
Date: 1895-1900
In front of business of W. C. Rigby Funeral Director, Arterial Embalmer
Rigby, white wagon with horse and two men
Address: 110 W. State St., Media (Pa.)
Date: 1895-1900
In front of business of W. C. Rigby Funeral Director, Arterial Embalmer
Media Ledger building
Address: 2 W. State St., Media (Pa.)
Date: 1898 (circa)
Photographed from upper window of Media Borough Hall
Snowden's window
Address: 115 W. State St., Media (Pa.)
Date: 1909-06-01
Advertising "Jap-A-Lac--Made by the Glidden Varnish Co, Cleveland, Ohio--Wears Like Iron"
