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Texaco Team, August 1918. Bat. Ave. 564. Winner of Pennant in Petroleum A.A.

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-15039.jpg
Date: 1918-08
The Texas Compay petroleum refinery was in Linwood, Pa., Newspaper articles from 1916 say that this team was part of the Independent League. The Petroleum Athletic Association also existed around that time.

Four men with shotguns, probably near Media, Pa.

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-15014.jpg
Date: 1910 (circa)
Donated by Mrs. Hoyt (nee Sill) on April 1, 1982. Removed from album; other photos in collection also donated by Mrs. Sill

Unidentified baseball team

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-15006.jpg
Date: 1945 (circa)
Photograph removed from frame, but print is stuck to the glass. Scanned through glass. Stored in Misc. Glass Negatives Box

Unidentified crowd scene, probably somewhere in Delaware County, Pennsylvania.

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-14011.jpg
Date: 1910-1930
Untitled panoramic photograph showing large crowd gathered for what looks like a political event, perhaps the visit of the U.S. President. A large factory is on left, houses in the middle, and what appears to be a train station is on the left.…

Media, Pa.

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-14009D.jpg
Date: 1912
One of four cyanotypes. Exact location not noted, but may be along Ridley Creek.

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

Trolley Car No. 27

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-04021.jpg
Date: 1905 (circa)
Caption on reverse: Car No. 27 was made by the Jewett Car Company equipped for train operation. They had high back leather seats of the reclining type. This type car was placed in operation 1902 to 1913 incl. They were used on the Ardmore, Media, and…

Freihofer’s bread wagon

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-01357.jpg
Date: 1900-1925
Sign on horse-drawn wagon reads; Freihofer's, Fine Bread. The bakery was in Chester. Location of this photo is unknown.

"Reunion in Vienna"

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-01013B.jpg
Date: 1900 (circa)
Young people in woods: Girls left to right: Marian Cope, Carmen Major, Helen Janeway, Mary Macintyre. Boy at left is Lewis Cheyney Smith. Boy at right is Lewis Wood Easby. The other two boys are unknown. The title may not be literal; the location may…

A bit of Delaware County

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-01013F.jpg
Date: 1906 (circa)
No location provided. A dirt road with a barn on the left and fenced-in cornfield on the right.

Railroad bridge, probably in Delaware County, Pa.

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-04049.jpg
Date: 1890 (circa)
Location of this photograph is uncertain. Original caption: The original High Bridge from the Media Water Works area. Frank Lees wrote on folder: Believed to be over Darby Creek at Clifton Heights, not Media as marked. The photographer lived in…

Old Bancroft House

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-08053.jpg
Date: 1900 (circa)
A ruin of a small house. Location unknown.

Ridley Creek from P.M.S. trolley bridge, looking south, Media, Pa.

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-08018B.jpg
Date: 1908 (circa)
Red Ink photo, series by same photographer named for red ink used for writing descriptions on reverse side of similarly-mounted images. P.M.S. is the Philadelphia, Morton & Swarthmore Street Railway Company. This line did have a bridge in…

Creek Road, along Ridley Creek, near Moylan, Pa. Bruce, Harvey and Ed.

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-08012B.jpg
Date: 1908
"Red Ink" photo, series by same photographer named for red ink used for writing descriptions on reverse side of similarly-mounted images. Location uncertain. This photo was entered in The John Wanamaker Exhibition of Photographs by Amateurs, February…

Creek Road, along Ridley Creek, near Moylan, Pa. Bruce, Harvey and Ed.

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-08012A.jpg
Date: 1908
"Red Ink" photo, series by same photographer named for red ink used for writing descriptions on reverse side of similarly-mounted images. Location uncertain. Same as P-08012B, except wider crop.

Alfred and Harry Appleton in field

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/AP-5219.jpg
Date: 1900 (circa)
Exact location not known; probably somewhere near Media

Unknown man

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-9088.jpg
Copy of portrait, with paper masking background.

Unknown man

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-9087.jpg
Copy of portrait, with paper partly masking background.

Unknown man

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-9086.jpg
Date: Copy of portrait

Unknown man

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-9085.jpg
Copy of portrait, with paper masking background.

Unknown man

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-9084.jpg
Copy of portrait

Interior room view 2

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-9082.jpg
Address: Not Known
Date: 1900-1908
Possibly a crime scene.

Interior room view 2

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-9081.jpg
Address: Not Known
Date: 1900-1908
Possibly a crime scene.