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741. Industry. Newtown Square

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-18163.jpg
Date: 1956 (circa)
Location uncertain.

551. Industry. Darby.

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-18129.jpg
Location: Darby (Pa.)
Date: 1955-08
According to newspaper research, Saha Manufacturing Co. was located on Springfield Road near MacDade Boulevard., or MacDade and Chestnut Street. Exact location is uncertain..

572. Highway. Industrial Highway, Eddystone.

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-18138.jpg
Location: Eddystone (Pa.)
Date: 1955-08
Exact location uncertain; somewhere along PA-291.

583. Parking. Bethel Court Redevelopment, 3rd and Market, Chester

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-18142.jpg
Location: Chester (Pa.)
Date: 1955-08
Scott Paper is in the background; the water tower resembles a roll of "Soft Weve" toilet tissue. Market Street is now Avenue of the States. Third street no longer intersects this street. Location uncertain.

646. Industry. Curtis Publishing Co., Sharon Hill

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-18158.jpg
Date: 1955 (circa)
This building now (2020) in an enlarged industrial park, houses the Delaware County Community College - Southeast Center.

DC2. Debris and culm filled area, Darby Creek

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-18181.jpg
Date: 1950-1955
Slide marked 'Duplicate;" unsure of orientation. Image may be flipped. Exact location uncertain.

017. Stream and factory with smokestack

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-18213.jpg
Date: 1950-1955
Slide marked "Duplicate." No identification.

034. Stream in channel with Baldwin Locomotive Works in background.

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-18218.jpg
Location: Eddystone (Pa.)
Date: 1950-1955
Slide marked "Duplicate." Identified from Google Maps. Stream is either Crum Creek or a raceway leading to factory from this creek. Exact location uncertain.

039. Tall dam on creek with two factory buildings below.

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-18219.jpg
Date: 1950-1955
Slide marked "Duplicate." No identification.

046. Mouth of creek near large river, with factory on right and bridge in distance

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-18221.jpg
Date: 1950-1955
Slide marked "Duplicate." No identification. Possibly the mouth of Crum Creek or Ridley Creek at the Delaware River.

056. Stream with factories, stores, and bridge

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-18224.jpg
Date: 1950-1955
Slide marked "Duplicate." No identification. Possibly Chester Creek in Chester, or Darby Creek in Darby.

Aerial view of Glenolden, Pa.

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-18019.jpg
Location: Glenolden (Pa.)
Date: 1935-1945
intersection of Chester Pike and South Avenue and what is now SEPTA/Amtrak railroad line, Glenolden, showing campus of Mulford Biological Laboratories (part of Sharp and Dome).

Aerial view Glenolden, Pa. and vicinity

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-18044.jpg
Location: Glenolden (Pa.)
Date: 1935-1945
View shows Mulford Biological Laboratories (part of Sharp & Dome ) near the intersection of Chester Pike and South Avenue.

Victoria Plush Mill

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-10003A.jpg
Date: 1917 (circa)

Collapse of covered bridge carrying Baltimore Pike over Crum Creek at Victoria Plush Mills

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-10001.jpg
Date: 1913-04
The Plush Mill Bridge collapsed April 20, 1913, when an 18-ton steamroller was crossing and crashed through the floor. See Chester Times, April 21, 1913 and a March 13, 1914 article about the lawsuit that ensued. Frank Lees caption: "Trolley…

Victoria Plush Mill

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-10003M.jpg
Date: 1910 (circa)

Ridley Creek below Duffs, Moylan, Pa.

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-08030.jpg
Location: Moylan (Pa.)
Date: 1908 (circa)
Red Ink photo, series by same photographer named for red ink used for writing descriptions on reverse side of similarly-mounted images. Duffs may be the mill that now houses the borough offices for Rose Valley, Pa. It is possible that the…

Victoria Plush Mill

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-10003H.jpg
Date: 1906-03
Caption: Taken in March 1906 from southwest of Mill from quarry of R. T. Ogden.

Victoria Plush Mill

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-10003I1.jpg
Date: 1906-03
Caption: Taken March 1906 from west of Mill from quarry of V. P. M. [Victoria Plush Mills].

Victoria Plush Mill

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-10003J1.jpg
Date: 1906-03
Caption: Taken in March 1906 from south of Mill from field of V. P. M. [Victoria Plush Mills].

Victoria Plush Mill

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-10003K.jpg
Date: 1906 (circa)

Victoria Plush Mill

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-10003L.jpg
Date: 1906 (circa)

Lansdowne accident. Railroad grade crossing east of station.

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-8329-13.jpg
Date: 1905-02-07
Appleton probably took these photos in support of a legal case regarding a railroad accident at this location. Man is standing next to factory at grade crossing on Union Ave.

Lansdowne accident

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-8329-39.jpg
Date: 1905-02-07
Looking east along railroad tracks from west of Schappet Terrace where man was found. Appleton probably took these photos in support of a legal case regarding a railroad accident at this location. Negative broken in 3 pieces. Houses in foreground are…

Lansdowne accident. Near view looking east on railroad tracks

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-8329-75.jpg
Date: 1905 (circa)
Appleton probably took these photos in support of a legal case regarding a railroad accident at this location. Schappet Terrace is in foreground; factory and rowhouses in background to left of tracks are on Union Ave., which has a grade crossing with…