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Packard Memorial United Methodist Church
Date: 1950-03-05
A different congregation now (2020) occupies this building.
Church of the Seventh Day Adventists
Date: 1950-03-04
Church building no longer exists. Approximate location was determined by comparing historic aerial photographs that showed the church to a current map of the location.
Media Centennial Celebration. "Centennial greetings from the Wentzes."
Date: 1950
Card includes photographs of Media Presbyterian Church, Borough Hall, Media High School, and R.M.S. Media, a British steamship. Dr. Walter Engard Wentz Jr. married Elizabeth Hoopes Mackey on September 24, 1932 (See Chester Times, Sept. 26, 1932). She…
Aerial view of Prospect Hill Baptist Church, Prospect Park, Pa.
Location: Prospect Park (Pa.)
Date: 1935-1945
View also shows cemetery on Lincoln Avenue. Further along this avenue, on the opposite side of the street are a school building (now demolished), First United Methodist Church (remodeled and added onto since this photograph), and at 822 Lincoln…
Aerial view of Blessed Virgin Mary Catholic Church, Darby, Pa.
Location: Darby (Pa.)
Date: 1935-1945
The church fronts on Main Street, Darby. The four-lane road is MacDade Boulevard, with Holy Cross Cemetery in upper left. The golf course is now gone, but one of the roads in the development that replaced the course is named Golf Road.
Media Presbyterian Church Black and White Club
Address: 30 E. Baltimore Ave., Media (Pa.)
Date: 1930-1940
According to the Chester Times, the club performed a minstrel show in March 1934 and March 1936, in the Media High School auditorium. This may not be the cast of that particular performance, but judging from the costumes (especially the two men in…
Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary Catholic Church, elementary school Class of 1930
Date: 1930
Location of this photograph is uncertain. In 1930, the School was located on the south side of Baltimore Avenue in the middle of the block between Gayley and Monroe streets. See P-03003A for the full photograph without IDs.
Immanuel Episcopal Church, New Castle, Delaware
Address: 50 Market St., New Castle (Del.)
Date: 1915 (circa)
One of eight photographs on two album pages.
Immanuel Episcopal Church, New Castle, Delaware
Address: 50 Market St., New Castle (Del.)
Date: 1915 (circa)
One of eight photographs on two album pages.
Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary Catholic Church
Address: 30 E. Franklin St., Media (Pa.)
Date: 1910-1920
Frank Lees caption: The Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary. The original church, on the left, was built in 1862. The building on the left was completed in 1882, built of native gray stone from what is now (1989) Media Quarry on Beatty…
Christ Episcopal Church Choir
Address: 311 S. Orange St., Media (Pa.)
Date: 1910 (circa)
Earl Babbitt, Mr. (Richard H.) Crockford (the church's organist and choir director), Bill Halsey, Horace Ross, Bill Mingin, and L.C.S. (Lewis Cheyney Smith).
First Baptist Church
Address: 18 E. 3rd St., Media (Pa.)
Date: 1908-10-08
Photograph of architectural rendering by George E. Savage, Architect, Philadelphia
Children’s Day group
Address: 18 E. 3rd St., Media (Pa.)
Date: 1907 (circa)
Girls holding wreaths. Group includes Sue Appleton, the photographer's daughter, so this is probably a First Baptist Church group, since that is the church the Appleton family attended.
Children’s Day group
Address: 18 E. 3rd St., Media (Pa.)
Date: 1907 (circa)
Girls holding wreaths. Group includes Sue Appleton, the photographer's daughter, so this is probably a First Baptist Church group, since that is the church the Appleton family attended.
Children’s Day group
Address: 18 E. 3rd St., Media (Pa.)
Date: 1907 (circa)
Girls holding wreaths. Group includes Sue Appleton, the photographer's daughter, so this is probably a First Baptist Church group, since that is the church the Appleton family attended.
Children’s Day group
Address: 18 E. 3rd St., Media (Pa.)
Date: 1907 (circa)
Girls holding wreaths. Group includes Sue Appleton, the photographer's daughter, so this is probably a First Baptist Church group, since that is the church the Appleton family attended.
Middletown Presbyterian Church, interior
Date: 1906-1907
The small building pictured was remodeled and absorbed into the larger church and Sunday School complex now on this site.