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Elizabeth Oveide and daughter Marie
Address: Media (Pa.)
Date: Not known
Elizabeth Oveide standing outside Plum Street home in Media, Pa., with daughter Marie Matthews (Posey)
Cornelius Ridley
Address: Media (Pa.)
Date: not known
Born a slave on Bonnie Doon Plantation in Southampton County, Virginia, he lived from 1839-1922. His father, Col. Thomas Ridley III, owned the plantation. Cornelius never knew his mother, and he ran away by himself in the spring of 1861. He made his…
Martha Jane Parham Ridley
Address: Media (Pa.)
Date: not known
She rejoined her husband Cornelius Ridley in Media after escaping from Virginia in 1864.
George A. Philips
Address: not known
Date: not known
Josepha Philips's father was a white New Yorker with businesses in Saint Croix.
Joann Gray, Children’s Librarian, Media Free Library
Address: 1 E. Front St., Media (Pa.)
Date: 1977
Esther Bell with the New Bolton Center carriage display, at the Media Town Fair
Date: 1975
View is from just east of Jackson Street, looking northeast on State Street, from south side of street. Nanette Children's Shop in background.
Paul L. Clark, Media Borough Secretary
Date: 1967 (circa)
Frank Lees caption: "Office in old library building at Jackson and Jasper streets, prior to moving to borough hall at 2 W. Jackson Street"
James J. Skelly
Location: Media (Pa.)
Date: 1961 (circa)
Skelly was founder of James J. Skelly Co., a general contracting and road building firm once located in Media. See ad in Centennial Book, page 81, for a history of the firm up to 1950, and a photograph of Skelly with his two sons, Joseph J. and J.…
John H. Tipping (right) shaking hands with unidentified U.S. Army captain
Location: Media (Pa.)
Date: 1960 (circa)
Official U.S. Army Photograph. The special citation between the two men, from the American Automobile Association honoring Media, Pennsylvania in 1957 for its "Pedestrian Program Activities," may or may not have anything to do with this photograph.
Judge E. Leroy van Roden at the Towne House Restaurant
Address: 117 Veterans Square, Media (Pa.)
Date: 1960 (circa)
The judge is in the center; the two women are not identified
