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View of railroad in Ridley Creek Valley, near Media, Pa. , with Clothier Mansion atop the far hill.
Date: 1894
Typed caption on reverse reads: "Looking due east showing the valley through which the Cent. Div. runs and the tracks skirting the property from its western boundary to the point it goes onto the high bridge; this frontage is an arc of a circle."…
Joseph Horne house
Address: Not Known
Date: 1895 (circa)
Home of photographer's parents, possibly in Marple Township or Darby, Pa.
Worrall house, Friends School site
Address: 117 Gayley St., Media (Pa.)
Date: 1895 (circa)
1855 Map of Media shows that Wesley Worrall owned this lot, although no house had yet been built.
Residence of Henry M. and Mary T. Fussell, 24 E. Jefferson Street, Media, Pa.
Address: 24 E. Jefferson St., Media (Pa.)
Date: 1895 (circa)
On reverse: Robert and Lewis Fussell on the porch. Mary T. Fussell in bay window.
Dale mansion
Address: 423 S. Jackson St., Media (Pa.)
Date: 1895-1900
This would have been about where the Church of Christ (housed in the former Woman's Club of Media building) is now located (2018).
First Methodist Episcopal Church, Media
Address: 350 W. State St., Media (Pa.)
Date: 1895-1900
Parts of houses on either side of church also visible.
First Methodist Episcopal Church, Media
Address: 350 W. State St., Media (Pa.)
Date: 1895-1900
Parts of houses on either side of church also visible.
Vernon residence
Address: Not Known
Date: 1895-1900
Woman and child in carriage posed, with horse, outside. See AP-5230 and AP-5251. This may be the Vernon Farm, in Upper Providence Township, referred to in several newspaper notes.
North Ave. row, east side, from 2nd St. to Carbon St.
Location: Media (Pa.)
Date: 1895-1900
North Avenue no longer exists. It was directly in line with South Avenue, north of the court house. These houses were demolished at some point as the court house, and then the county government center, expanded to cover the entire area from Front to…
C. Frank Williamson Lumber Yard, Station Road
Date: 1895-1900
Six or seven buildings, some look like dwellings. Sign reads: C. Frank Williamson, Lumber, Coal, Wood and Feed. Railroad tracks in foreground.
Old House, combination. Media’s Original farmhouses: Dr. Joseph. Rowland, James Esrey, Elizabeth Way, and John Hill.
Location: Media (Pa.)
Date: 1895-1900
Used in Semi-centennial booklet, composite of negatives AP-4152, AP-4169, AP-4243, and AP-4049
Crook’s house
Date: 1895-1900
Henry Pearson, in Middletown Township, Delaware County, Pa. (295), writes that the Pratt/Crooks house stood opposite Cumberland Cemetery on Middletown Road (Route 352).
Vernon house
Address: Not Known
Date: 1895-1900
See AP-5133 and AP-5251. This may be the Vernon Farm, in Upper Providence Township, referred to in several newspaper notes. Family posed on porch, with women playing banjo and guitar, and pets sprawled on the lawn..
Rowland house or Vernon house
Address: Not Known
Date: 1895-1900
A flower bed is in the foreground, with a vine-covered porch on the house. Appleton initialed this in the lower left corner.
Shoemakerville Hill
Date: 1895-1900
This hill and bridge are on Providence Road or Route 320, as it crosses Ridley Creek, which is the border between Chester and Nether Providence Township, Pa. See AP-5132-1 for same view taken same day.
Vernon house, with D. A. Vernon and horse
Address: Not Known
Date: 1895-1900
Appleton's index entry is hard to decipher, but this man is definitely not D. A. Vernon, who died in 1888; this is probably D. A. Vernon's horse. Same residence and same day as in AP-5133 and AP-5230. Possibly in Upper Providence.
Walter house, Media, and adjacent house
Address: 100-104 W. Front St., Media (Pa.)
Date: 1895-1900
From right: 104, 102, and 100 W. Front St. These are still standing as of 2018. The house on the far left has been demolished, and the porch on the far right has been altered