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Aerial view taken over Media, Pa.

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Zimmerman/ZM-3175A.jpg
Date: 1950-04-22
Looking west on Baltimore Avenue from east of Providence Road. Howard Johnson's restaurant is in lower left, opposite from the Media Inn.

Band wagon

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-4044-1.jpg
Date: 1895-1900
See AP-4044-2 for a different band with African American players in the same or similar wagon. Charter House livery stable in background.

Band wagon

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-4044-2.jpg
Date: 1895-1900
See AP-4044-1 for a different band with caucasian players in the same or similar wagon. Charter House livery stable in background.

Band with Theodore Roosevelt

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-14013A.jpg
Date: 1901-08-02
Based on research in newspaper archives, this photograph was probably taken by Clyde M. Allam on August 2, 1901, when Theodore Roosevelt, then vice-president of the United States, gave a speech in Colorado Springs, Colorado on the occasion of the…

Briggs Inn

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-10023.jpg
Date: 1849
Frank Lees caption: Owned by Isaac Briggs, built 1849, Providence Road and Plush Mill Road. Building still stands, as of 2019. Copy of original photo; source not noted

Brooke Hall Apartments

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Zimmerman/ZM-2682.jpg
Date: 1950-03-05
This building had previous uses as a hotel, and earlier, as the Eastman Seminary for Girls.

Brooke Hall Apartments

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Zimmerman/ZM-2711.jpg
Date: 1950-03-29
This building had previous uses as a hotel, and earlier, as the Eastman Seminary for Girls.

Charter House

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-4065.jpg
Date: 1889-02-14
Used In “Media, Penna.” publication, 1889, p. 13

Charter House

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-8382.jpg
Date: 1906
Building behind the hotel is visible, with Republican Party banner partly hidden behind tree.

Charter House dining room

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5086.jpg
Date: 1900 (circa)
With flowers on one table.

Charter House office

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5175.jpg
Date: 1895-1900
Shows furnishings, lamps, clock, artwork on wall, potted plants

Charter House parlor

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5136.jpg
Date: 1895-1900
Clearly shows draperies, furniture, light fixtures, and potted plants

Charter House stable

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5128-4.jpg
Date: 1895-1900
See AP-5128 for information on this circle picture.

Charter House stairway

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5176.jpg
Date: 1895-1900
Shows furnishings, lamps, carpeting, artwork on wall, potted plants

Charter House, D. R. Hawkins, Proprietor. Copy from map

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-4070.jpg
Date: 1855
Photographed from 1855 "Map of Media." Photograph used in the book Twice Adopted, by "En Quad" [Thomas R. Vernon]. Media, Pa.: Cooper & Vernon, Publishers, 1898, facing page 129. This novel tells the story of two adopted children in Media who grow up…

Charter House, front

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5270.jpg
Date: 1896
With two large willow trees in full leaf.

Chestnut Grove House

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-4060.jpg
Date: 1889-02-02
Used in “Media, Penna.” publication, 1889, p. 58. This later became the Colonial. This occupied property south of Jefferson St. and West of Orange St., above the railroad tracks just inside the Media borough boundary.

Colonial Apartments

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Zimmerman/ZM-2693.jpg
Date: 1950-03-06
This originally was called the Chestnut Grove Hotel, later renamed the Colonial Hotel. Media Real Estate Company's colonial-named apartment houses now (2020) stand on this location. Print originally in Folder 1344.

Elephant, in front of Charter House

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-4077-1.jpg
Date: 1890-1900
A unique form of advertising; see also AP-4077-2

Elephant, in front of Charter House

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-4077-2.jpg
Date: 1890-1900
A unique form of advertising; the elephant has a Charter House advertisement banner on its back. See also AP-4077-1