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Brooklyn cruiser

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-4041-1.jpg
Date: 1896 (circa)
United States Navy armored cruiser, launched Oct. 2, 1895 from the Cramp Shipyard in Philadelphia. This could be the day it was launched. Crowd on board, under tent. Other sailing ships and steamboats on river, including "Sylvan Dell." Probably in…

Brooklyn cruiser

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-4041-2.jpg
Date: 1896 (circa)
United States Navy armored cruiser, launched Oct. 2, 1895 from the Cramp Shipyard in Philadelphia. Probably in the Delaware River between Philadelphia and Chester. This picture seems to have been taken at another time than AP-4041-1.

Beatty’s dam, on Crum Creek

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-4048.jpg
Date: 1889 (circa)
Crum Creek Road is on the left.

Indiana, battleship

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-4103-1.jpg
Date: 1895 (circa)
Built at Cramp Shipyard in Philadelphia and commissioned in 1895. This picture may be from the commissioning celebration, judging from the number of civilians on ship and the awning at the stern. Probably in the Delaware River between Philadelphia…

Indiana, battleship

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-4103-2.jpg
Date: 1895 (circa)
Built at Cramp Shipyard in Philadelphia and commissioned in 1895. This picture may be from the commissioning celebration, judging from the number of civilians on ship and the awning at the stern. Probably in the Delaware River between Philadelphia…

Massachusetts, battleship

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-4133.jpg
Date: 1895 (circa)
Probably in the Delaware River between Philadelphia and Chester.

Port Deposit, Maryland

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-4140-1.jpg
Date: 1895 (circa)
Ice on Susquehanna River and over railroad tracks. Location given in address field is approximate.

Port Deposit, Maryland

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-4140-2.jpg
Date: 1895 (circa)
Ice on Susquehanna River and over railroad tracks .Location given in address field is approximate.

Port Deposit, Maryland, on the Susquehanna River. Ice with railroad boxcar half submerged

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-4148.jpg
Date: 1895 (circa)
Location is approximate.

River view, with sailboats

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-4155.jpg
Date: 1890-1900
Probably in the Delaware River between Philadelphia and Chester.

Steamboat “City of Chester”, on the Delaware River

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-4200.jpg
Date: 1895-1900
Launched May 2, 1888 from Harlan and Hollingsworth shipyard, in Wilmington

War ship

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-4242.jpg
Date: 1895 (circa)
Ship is in the Delaware River off Philadelphia; the spire in the background is Independence Hall.

Yacht

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-4246.jpg
Date: 1900 (circa)
Boat is near a marina; probably on Delaware River

Brooklyn cruiser

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5178.jpg
Date: 1896 (circa)
United States Navy armored cruiser, launched Oct. 2, 1895 from the Cramp Shipyard in Philadelphia. Probably in the Delaware River between Philadelphia and Chester.

Brooklyn cruiser

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5178-1.jpg
Date: 1896 (circa)
United States Navy armored cruiser, launched Oct. 2, 1895 from the Cramp Shipyard in Philadelphia

Susquehanna River

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5253.jpg
Date: 1895-1900
In Pennsylvania or Maryland, perhaps near Peach Bottom or Port Deposit; see photos of these places elsewhere in this collection.

Henry Fussell, copy

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-8168.jpg
Copy of a photograph of a flooding stream.

W. A. Johnson, street view

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-8172.jpg
Date: 1902-03-22
Detail of this Lansdowne property.

Unknown property 1

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-9052.jpg
Address: Not Known
Date: 1908 (circa)
Possibly a photograph for a legal case or of a crime scene, or documenting the property before it was sold?

Unknown property 1

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-9053.jpg
Address: Not Known
Date: 1908 (circa)
Possibly a photograph for a legal case or of a crime scene, or documenting the property before it was sold?

Unknown property 1

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-9054.jpg
Address: Not Known
Date: 1908 (circa)
Possibly a photograph for a legal case or of a crime scene, or documenting the property before it was sold?

Wawa Railroad Station, platform, looking east

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/AP-5210.jpg
Date: 1895 (circa)
Water tank and locomotive are in the distance. The station was on the west side of Chester Creek, whcsh appears behind a scrim of trees.

Broomall’s Lake Falls

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-01026C.jpg
Date: 1906 (circa)
Frank Lees caption: "Broomall's Lake, home of the Media Swimming and Rowing Club, and now called the Broomall's Lake Country Club, is located on West Third St., in Media. The club house was built in the mid-1880s by the Broomall Family, who operated…

Covered Bridge over Ridley Creek at Water Works

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-01094.jpg
Date: 1900 (circa)
On reverse: Property of W. Somers Ford 1909.

View of lake and boating grounds, Media Park

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-01433D.jpg
Date: 1880 (circa)
Back of card reads: "Thirty minutes by R.R. from Philadelphia. Media and Vicinity. Photographed by Samuel McMullin, Landscape Photographer, No. 1128 South Ninth Street, Philadelphia. Taken by request of James R. Cummins, Residence, Media, Penna."…