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Steam locomotive

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-04060.jpg
Date: 1900-1910
Location unknown, probably Delaware County, Pa. Pears Soap sign on adjacent building. Negative, probably by Streeper

Steam train in Media Station pulling up to water tower

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-04009A.jpg
Date: 1890 (circa)

Steam train on High Bridge over Ridley Creek Valley, heading east towards Media

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-04008.jpg
Location: Media (Pa.)
Date: 1910-1915
Copy of original photo; source not noted

Swarthmore College

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-4211.jpg
Date: 1895-1900
View from railroad tracks all the way up to the main building, no Parrish Hall. The oak tree allee along this walk were then newly planted.

Train leaving Media

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-04051B.jpg
Date: 1906 (circa)

View of railroad in Ridley Creek Valley, near Media, Pa. , with Clothier Mansion atop the far hill.

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-04050G.jpg
Date: 1894
Typed caption on reverse reads: "Looking due east showing the valley through which the Cent. Div. runs and the tracks skirting the property from its western boundary to the point it goes onto the high bridge; this frontage is an arc of a circle."…

Woodmen

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5166.jpg
Date: 1895-1900
Probably at C. Frank Williamson’s lumber yard, near railroad station in Media. Scene includes railroad flatbed cars loaded with lumber, woodsmen with axes, and huge uncut tree trunks with bark still attached.