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Union A.M.E. Church, Interior
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…
Union A.M.E. Church, interior
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
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.…
Uncle Josh group
Address: 30 E. Franklin St., Media (Pa.)
Date: 1902-02-20
Uncle Josh was a stock character in amateur theatrical and minstrel shows. One man is in blackface, a racist imitation of African American skin color. The Philadelphia Inquirer ran this photograph on March 2, 1902, page 9, with the following headline…
Trolley car on Olive Street south of 5th Street, Media.
Address: 418 N. Olive St, Media (Pa.)
Date: 1900-1920
Sign on trolley reads "Darby." The Union A.M.E. Church (in 2019, the Trinity A.M.E. Church) is on the left.
St. David’s Church
Address: 763 S. Valley Forge Rd., Wayne (Pa.)
Date: 1899
Includes view of graveyard. Handwritten on reverse: St. David's Episcopal Church, Radnor, Del. Co., Pa., showing the tomb of General. Anthony Wayne in the centre and the tomb of H. Jones Brooke at left end of church. Photographed by Dr. Dickeson,…
St. David's Episcopal Church, Radnor
Address: 763 S. Valley Forge Rd., Wayne (Pa.)
Date: 1898 (circa)
The church is surrounded by a cemetery. Photograph used in the book Twice Adopted, by "En Quad" [Thomas R. Vernon]. Media, Pa.: Cooper & Vernon, Publishers, 1898, facing page 192. This novel tells the story of two adopted children in Media who grow…
St. David's Episcopal Church, Radnor
Address: 763 S. Valley Forge Rd., Wayne (Pa.)
Date: 1898 (circa)
The church is surrounded by a cemetery. Photograph used in the book Twice Adopted, by "En Quad" [Thomas R. Vernon]. Media, Pa.: Cooper & Vernon, Publishers, 1898, facing page 192. This novel tells the story of two adopted children in Media who grow…
Sisters of St. Francis chapel
Address: 609 Convent Rd., Aston (Pa.)
Date: 1900-1905
Our Lady of Angels Convent chapel, now part of Neumann University. Image obscured by remnants of envelope stuck to emulsion
Rockdale Choir Lady
Address: 667 Mount Rd., Aston Township (Pa.)
Date: 1905 (circa)
At the Calvary Episcopal Church, Rockdale or Lenni
Rockdale Choir Lady
Address: 667 Mount Rd., Aston Township (Pa.)
Date: 1905 (circa)
At the Calvary Episcopal Church, Rockdale or Lenni
Rockdale Choir Ladies, two women
Address: 667 Mount Rd., Aston Township (Pa.)
Date: 1905 (circa)
At the Calvary Episcopal Church, Rockdale or Lenni
Radnor Friends Meeting
Address: 610 Conestoga Rd., Villanova (Pa.)
Date: 1898
Handwritten on reverse: Friends' Meeting House in Radnor, Del. Co., Pa. Built A.D. 1710, and occupied during the Revolution by soldiers Ten members of the Delaware County Institute of Science are shown in this picture. Photographed by Dr. Dickeson in…
Packard Memorial United Methodist Church
Date: 1950-03-05
A different congregation now (2020) occupies this building.