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Quinby & Co. Groceries, northwest corner, Jackson Street and Front Street
Date: 1890 (circa)
Copy of original photo; source not noted
South Avenue at Franklin Street, looking north, with trolley car
Date: 1890 (circa)
Delaware County Court House is in background.
Trolley mail car between 5th and 6th on Olive St.
Date: 1896-03-02
Chester Traction Co. trolley car bedecked with bunting and banner reading: Chester Media U.S. Mail. Conductor and operator standing at either end of car. According to an article in The Philadelphia Times, March 3, 1896, this service was inaugurated…
Trolley mail car between 5th and 6th on Olive St.
Date: 1896-03-03
Chester Traction Co. trolley car bedecked with bunting and banner reading: Chester Media U.S. Mail. Conductor and operator standing at either end of car. According to an article in The Philadelphia Times, March 3, 1896, this service was inaugurated…
Baltimore Avenue, looking east from Jackson Street, after snowfall
Date: 1900 (circa)
First Presbyterian Church is the prominent building in this photograph. Only the trolley tracks are cleared of snow. P-01276, P-01277 and P-01278 are mounted on identical boards, with identical handwriting in the captions, so they were all probably…
Looking north on South Avenue from Jefferson Street
Date: 1900 (circa)
Frank Lees caption: The Delaware County Court House can be seen through the trees. A mailman rides his bicycle with the mail. The trolley tracks carried the trolley from Orange and Lincoln St. to Front Street, then on to Chester. Copy of original…
Union Railway Co. Trolley No. 13
Location: Marcus Hook (Pa.)
Date: 1900 (circa)
Frank Lees caption: "The Union Railway Company, was formed in Chester in 1890. The intentions were to build an electric railway from Linwood, through Chester, and into Media. This never came to be. Eventually the company did run cars into Marcus…
Edgemont Post Office, in store of “E. G. Peirce, dealer in general merchandise.”
Location: 5013 West Chester Pike, Edgmont (Pa.)
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…
Unknown road and trolley tracks
Address: Not Known
Date: 1900-1908
Possibly photographed for a legal case involving a trolley accident. Tracks possibly leading to Chester; see AP-9079-5, with many smokestacks on horizon.
Unknown road and trolley tracks
Address: Not Known
Date: 1900-1908
Possibly photographed for a legal case involving a trolley accident. Tracks possibly leading to Chester; see AP-9079-5, with many smokestacks on horizon.
Unknown road and trolley tracks
Address: Not Known
Date: 1900-1908
Possibly photographed for a legal case involving a trolley accident. Tracks possibly leading to Chester; see AP-9079-5, with many smokestacks on horizon.
Unknown road and trolley tracks
Address: Not Known
Date: 1900-1908
Possibly photographed for a legal case involving a trolley accident. Farm buildings and dwellings in background, and large house behind telephone pole on left, and what seem to be many smokestacks in far distance.
Unknown road and trolley tracks
Address: Not Known
Date: 1900-1908
Possibly photographed for a legal case involving a trolley accident
Eddystone Trolley Case
Date: 1900-1909
This was likely taken by Appleton in support of a legal case regarding a trolley accident.
Eddystone Trolley Case
Date: 1900-1909
This was likely taken by Appleton in support of a legal case regarding a trolley accident.
Eddystone Trolley Case
Date: 1900-1909
Shows church at 9th and Sayville in Eddystone, with trolley No.16 of the Chester Traction Co. This was likely taken by Appleton in support of a legal case regarding a trolley accident. A large factory is in the background.
Woman on Route 47 trolley (or Car No. 47), M. & S. Traction Co.
Location: New Jersey
Date: 1900-1910
The M. & S. Traction Company, according to a newspaper search, operated in central New Jersey--M. & S. standing for Middlesex and Somerset, two New Jersey counties. Therefore, Frank Lees' information -- "Summer trolley car on Baltimore Avenue, on…
Trolley car No. 11, Media-Glen Riddle Line, in Middletown Township
Date: 1900-1910
Sign reads: Elwyn & Lima. Location uncertain. Copy of original photo; source not noted
Trolley car on Olive Street south of 5th Street, Media.
Address: 418 N. Olive St, Media (Pa.)
Date: 1900-1920
Sign on trolley reads "Darby." The Union A.M.E. Church (in 2019, the Trinity A.M.E. Church) is on the left.
Trolley car on Park Avenue, Lincoln Street in background
Date: 1900-1920
Sign on trolley reads: Media.