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Catholic Church, front view

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-4061-1.jpg
Date: 1889-01-19
Full name is Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary Catholic Church, or Nativity BVM, for short.

Catholic Church, side view

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-4061-2.jpg
Date: 1889-01-19
Full name is Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary Catholic Church, or Nativity BVM, for short.

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.

First Methodist Episcopal Church, Christmas house

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-4067.jpg
Date: 1895-1900
Location not identified in index, but located by comparing the design and arrangement of windows to other pictures of this church

Lansdowne signs

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-4108.jpg
Date: 1890-1900
Hand-lettered business signs posted on tree, one for "Ja's (James) Haynes, upholsterer, est. 1885, steam carpet cleaning; call for and deliver all goods, Clifton Heights and Lansdowne" and a second for "Edward Brown, whitewashing, grading, cementing…

Lima Methodist Episcopal Church

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-4109.jpg
Date: 1890-1900
The building, somewhat altered, still stands (2018).

First Methodist Episcopal Church, Media

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-4118-1.jpg
Date: 1895-1900
Parts of houses on either side of church also visible.

First Methodist Episcopal Church, Media

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-4118-2.jpg
Date: 1895-1900
Parts of houses on either side of church also visible.

First Methodist Episcopal Church, Media, interior.

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-4130.jpg
Date: 1890-1900
Identified by comparing the design and arrangement of windows to other pictures of this church. The church is decorated for Christmas, and the organ is clearly visible.

Church combination

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5059.jpg
Location: Media (Pa.)
Date: 1889
Includes Catholic, Presbyterian, Methodist, African Methodist, Episcopal, Friends, and Orthodox Friends buildings in Media, Pa. Used in “Media, Penna.” publication, 1889, and also on p. 15 of Media Semi-Centennial booklet, 1900

Middletown Presbyterian Church, interior

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5093.jpg
Date: 1900 (circa)
The small building pictured was remodeled and absorbed into the larger church and Sunday School complex now on this site.

St. David's Episcopal Church, Radnor

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5160.jpg
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

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5160-5.jpg
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…

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…