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Young flowers

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-8115.jpg
Address: Not Known
Date: 1900 (circa)
Flowers spell "Sister". Deceased person in coffin.

Upper Darby stiff, deceased

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5186.jpg
Date: 1895-1900

Upper Darby stiff, deceased

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5207.jpg
Date: 1894 (circa)
From envelope: C. E. Danne or Hanne. Without hat.

Unknown stiff, dead

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-4212.jpg
Address: Not Known
Date: 1895-1900

Stiff, Dead Gentleman, 1-26-89, 9:15 A.M.

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-4198-1.jpg
Address: Not Known
Date: 1889-01-26

S. Webster baby, deceased

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5206-1.jpg
Address: Not Known
Date: 1895-1900

S. Webster baby, deceased

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5206-2.jpg
Address: Not Known
Date: 1895-1900

Plum Street baby, dead, in coffin

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5625.jpg
Location: Media (Pa.)
Date: 1906 (circa)

Mrs. Maria Fussell, in coffin, deceased

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-4079-1.jpg
Location: Media (Pa.)
Date: 1897
Wife of Henry Bartholomew Fussell. Maria Douglass Fussell, 8/5/1822-9/11/1897, Media Cemetery, information from findagrave.com

Mrs. Maria Fussell, in coffin, deceased

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-4079-2.jpg
Location: Media (Pa.)
Date: 1897
Wife of Henry Bartholomew Fussell. Maria Douglass Fussell, 8/5/1822-9/11/1897, Media Cemetery, information from findagrave.com

Mrs. Maria Fussell, in coffin, deceased

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-4079-3.jpg
Location: Media (Pa.)
Date: 1897
Wife of Henry Bartholomew Fussell. Maria Douglass Fussell, 8/5/1822-9/11/1897, Media Cemetery, information from findagrave.com

Mrs. Daht Green, dead

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5590.jpg
Date: 1906-02-09

Mr. Angus, dead

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5300.jpg
Address: Not Known
Date: 1900 (circa)

Miss McDermott, deceased

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5301-1.jpg
Address: Not Known
Date: 1900 (circa)

Lansdowne baby, deceased

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5065.jpg
Date: 1894

Kirschnek baby, deceased, in coffin

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5055-1.jpg
Location: Media (Pa.)
Date: 1890-1900

Kirschnek baby, deceased, in coffin

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5055-2.jpg
Location: Media (Pa.)
Date: 1890-1900

Jamison baby, dead, in coffin

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5455.jpg
Address: Not Known
Date: 1904 (circa)

Helen Rigby, deceased

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5182-1.jpg
Address: Not Known
Date: 1898-04

Hagerman baby, deceased

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-4098-3.jpg
Address: Not Known
Date: 1900 (circa)
Possibly child of Herbert and A. Hagerman who lived at 30 E. Jefferson, according to 1897 Media Directory

Drowned boy, deceased

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5333.jpg
Address: Not Known
Date: 1902 (circa)
Posed in wicker chair

Della Hoopes, deceased

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5076.jpg
Address: Not Known
Date: 1890-1900

Coffin with man, deceased

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5236.jpg
Address: Not Known
Date: 1890-1900

Bean baby, dead, in coffin

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5508.jpg
Address: Not Known
Date: 1905-02-18

Baby, deceased, electric light

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5067-1.jpg
Address: Not Known
Date: 1890-1900
"Electric Light" probably refers to the lighting Appleton used while taking this photograph.