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Horse block

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-4097-1.jpg
Address: Not Known
Date: 1895-1900
Set of stone steps used to help people mount horses.

Lindsay ruins

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-4110.jpg
Address: Not Known
Date: 1890-1900
Rubble in a field; looks to be the ruins of a barn; another building is visible in the nearby woods.

Sloan’s barn under construction, Baltimore Pike east of Beatty Road

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-4197.jpg
Date: 1899-12-27
This looks like the barn could have been under reconstruction after a fire. 1892 Media map shows the M. W. Sloan estate at this location.

Sharpless stable, interior

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-4209.jpg
Address: Not Known
Date: 1889 (circa)
John Sharpless was murdered in his stable in 1885. The case dragged on until 1889, and was the most sensational in Delaware County history up to that point. These may be Appleton's retrospective photos of the scene of the crime.

Trick dog, standing on hind legs

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-4215-1.jpg
Address: Not Known
Date: 1890-1900

Trick dog, standing on hind legs

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-4215-2.jpg
Address: Not Known
Date: 1890-1900

Wilkinson homestead

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-4228-1.jpg
Address: Not Known
Date: 1895-1900

Wilkinson homestead

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-4228-2.jpg
Address: Not Known
Date: 1895-1900

Ogden homestead

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5117.jpg
Date: 1890-1900
On the northwest corner of the intersection noted below, this house is still standing (2018). Henry Pearson, in Middletown Township, Delaware County, Pa. (286), claims that part of the house was built in 1681.

Sharpless, long distance view.

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5119.jpg
Address: Not Known
Date: 1889 (circa)
John Sharpless was murdered in his stable in 1885. The case dragged on until 1889, and was the most sensational in Delaware County history up to that point. These may be Appleton's retrospective photos of the scene of the crime.

Sharpless barn

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5177.jpg
Address: Not Known
Date: 1889 (circa)
John Sharpless was murdered in the stable on his farm in 1885. he case dragged on until 1889, and was the most sensational in Delaware County history up to that point. These may be Appleton's retrospective photos of the scene of the crime. Shows…

Reynolds cows

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5325.jpg
Address: Not Known
Date: 1901-11-02

Reynolds cows

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5325-5.jpg
Address: Not Known
Date: 1901-11-02

Crook’s roadway, Wawa Road, wide view

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5352.jpg
Date: 1902-05-02
This may have been taken for a legal case related to the condition of the road, perhaps related to the ditch or drainage that seems to be the focus of this series of pictures, AP-8229-8231.

Concordville railroad bridge No. 20, diagonal

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-8024.jpg
Address: Not Known
Date: 1900 (circa)

Railroad bridge no. 42, top side

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-8033.jpg
Address: Not Known
Date: 1900 (circa)

Railroad bridge no. 42, north side

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-8034.jpg
Address: Not Known
Date: 1900 (circa)

Railroad bridge no.40, top side

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-8036.jpg
Address: Not Known
Date: 1900 (circa)

Elkview railroad bridge, diagonal

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-8038.jpg
Date: 1900 (circa)
"The 853-foot long Elkview Trestle built in 1897 still carries trains. The bridge is located on the former PRR Octoraro Branch which once connected Chester, Pa with the Susquehanna River above Port Deposit." Source:…

Elkview railroad bridge, top

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-8040.jpg
Date: 1900 (circa)
"The 853-foot long Elkview Trestle built in 1897 still carries trains. The bridge is located on the former PRR Octoraro Branch which once connected Chester, Pa with the Susquehanna River above Port Deposit." Source:…

Glen Riddle, bridge over railroad, south

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-8062.jpg
Date: 1900 (circa)
Location is approximate.

Newtown Telephone Station

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-8109.jpg
Address: Not Known
Date: 1900 (circa)
Date stone on building reads 1897. Sign on striped barber pole reads: To V. E. Dewees, Barber.

Elkview railroad bridge, Painters at

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-8119.jpg
Date: 1900 (circa)
Includes farm landscape behind the workmen.

Chadd’s Ford case

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-8122-67.jpg
Date: 1900 (circa)
This photography taken in support of a legal case at this location.

Eddystone Trolley Case

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-8132-25.jpg
Date: 1900-1909
This was likely taken by Appleton in support of a legal case regarding a trolley accident.