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Matthew Fox, Postmaster, Media, Pa.

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Location: Media (Pa.)
Date: 1913 (circa)
Stamped on reverse: Allan Cleaves Dodge. Post Office History. Box 22 Drexel Hill Pa.

M03. U. S. Post Office and Borough Hall, Media, Pa.

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Date: 1950-1955
The post office (left) later became the Media Borough Hall, It is now (2020) a restaurant. The original borough Hall, in the background, was torn down in 1969 as part of Media's urban renewal project.

Letter Carrier

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Address: Not Known
Date: 1889 (circa)
Mail was delivered in this horse-drawn vehicle.

Front Elevation, Media Post Office

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Date: 1916
Drawing No. 100A. Signed by J. A. (James A.) Wetmore, Acting Supervising Architect, Treasury Department

First Floor Plan, Media Post Office

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Date: 1916
Drawing No. 3A. Signed by J. A. (James A.) Wetmore, Acting Supervising Architect, Treasury Department

Edgemont Post Office, in store of “E. G. Peirce, dealer in general merchandise.”

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Date: 1900 (circa)
Caption on reverse reads: "Edgemont, Pa. on West Chester Pike. Car line ran from 69th St. to West Chester along West Chester Pike." Donated by Mrs. Hoyt (nee Sills), April 11, 1982. This building, which is no longer standing, was on the south side of…

Dedication of the New Post Office

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Date: 1962-11-17
View across the loading dock toward Gayley Street and Baltimore Avenue, showing Pinocchio's Pizza on the northeast corner, and a Texaco gas station on the southest corner. This building, which replaced a municipal metered parking lot, was dedicated…

Crime scene. Post Office robbery, Media

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Date: 1906
The caption for this photo, printed in the Philadelphia Inquirer on April 25, 1906, reads: "Wrecked Safe in Media Post Office: Yeggmen set off a charge that demolished the outer part of the receptacle last night. The inner lining was intact. The…

Crime scene. Post Office robbery, Media

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Date: 1906
See description at AP-8356. A bottle on a ledge by the safe, somehow unbroken after the explosion, bears this label: Pomeroy's Combined Writing & Copying Fluid. Flows Freely, Will Not Mould. Newark, N.J. One letter sits on the floor in front of the…

Bonsall Bros. Hardware and Groceries, and Broomall Post Office

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Date: 1930 (circa)
Building erected 1817. Torn down 1965 or after. Gasoline pump also shown. According to the 1909 Mueller Atlas, Plate 30, this building stood on the northeast corner of the intersection of West Chester Pike and Sproul Road. Address is approximate

Basement Plan, Media Post Office

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-06011-33.jpg
Date: 1916
Drawing No. 2A. Signed by J. A. (James A.) Wetmore, Acting Supervising Architect, Treasury Department

Approach Plan, Media Post Office

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-06011-39.jpg
Date: 1916
Drawing No. 1A. Signed by J. A. (James A.) Wetmore, Acting Supervising Architect, Treasury Department

942. U. S. Post Office, Media, Pa.

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Date: 1947
This building later became the Media Borough Hall, It is now (2020) a restaurant.