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George Redmon and family, on front porch

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-4165.jpg
Date: 1890-1900
George Redmon married Elizabeth or Lizzie nee Horne, in the center of the photograph. She was a cousin of Stephen Appleton. See Ogden Genealogy, p. 120-121. They had two daughters who lived to adulthood: Bessie and Lillian, pictured in other photos…

Trick dog, standing on hind legs

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-4215-1.jpg
Address: Not Known
Date: 1890-1900

Trick dog, standing on hind legs

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-4215-2.jpg
Address: Not Known
Date: 1890-1900

Trick dog, standing on chair

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-4219-1.jpg
Address: Not Known
Date: 1890-1900

Trick dog, standing on chair

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-4219-2.jpg
Address: Not Known
Date: 1890-1900

Frank Van Leer on rocks

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-4221.jpg
Address: Not Known
Date: 1890-1900
Probably along Ridley Creek near Media. AP-4028 is the same location on same day.

Jennie and Helen Vernon

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-4222.jpg
Date: 1890-1900
Newspaper search confirms that these two are sisters, if their similar appearance did not already confirm this.

Elephant pig

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5054.jpg
Address: Not Known
Date: 1890-1900
This may be a photo of a freak of nature that was born dead.

Henderson, funeral flowers

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5056-3.jpg
Address: Not Known
Date: 1890-1900
Probably related to AP-5306, but not the same flowers. In this photo the background buildings are masked out. Compare to AP-5063-4. Senders of flowers include: "Employees American Office," and "H 6", which would be Company H, 6th Regiment of the…

Henderson, funeral flowers

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5056-4.jpg
Address: Not Known
Date: 1890-1900
Possibly related to AP-5306, but not the same flowers.

Sassafras trees

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5058-1.jpg
Address: Not Known
Date: 1890-1900
Huge specimens, with man posed beneath them for scale.

Sassafras trees

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5058-2.jpg
Address: Not Known
Date: 1890-1900
Huge specimens, with man posed beneath them for scale.

Jumping dog

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5061.jpg
Address: Not Known
Date: 1890-1900
Dog hangs from stick held up by two women; a third woman is holding backdrop for photo.

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.

Baby, deceased, electric light

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5067-2.jpg
Address: Not Known
Date: 1890-1900
"Electric Light" probably refers to the lighting Appleton used while taking this photograph.

Griscom’s dog Norma

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5070.jpg
Address: Not Known
Date: 1890-1900
See also AP-5200, for Griscom children with same dog.

Henry flowers

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5075.jpg
Address: Not Known
Date: 1890-1900
Lilies of the valley and calla lilies

Della Hoopes, deceased

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

Union Hotel, S. H. Serrill

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5097.jpg
Address: Not Known
Date: 1890-1900
Newspaper lists this as Linwood (1886) and Marcus Hook and vicinity (1902): "located at the Cross Roads, Linwood". I think this is the same place. See AP-5223 for close-up of Elsie Serrill and child on this porch.

Vernon trees, with picnic party underneath

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5099.jpg
Address: Not Known
Date: 1890-1900

D. A. Vernon

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5100.jpg
Date: 1890-1900
Copy of an original portrait (either a photograph, drawing, or engraving); the original is signed E. J. Willcox, 1889. David Ashbridge Vernon was one of the founders of the Delaware County American. He died in 1888.

Mrs. T. R. Vernon at the piano

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5101.jpg
Date: 1890-1900
Blanche Knight married Thomas Rufus Vernon, Sr. in 1880. Se AP-5262 for the Vernon family posed around this piano.

Mary Wilkinson

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5107.jpg
Date: 1890-1900
Mary was daughter of Sarah and Edgar Wilkinson; Sarah (or Sallie) was Deborah Appleton's sister.

Coffin with man, deceased

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

Sharpless house

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5034.jpg
Date: 1891 (circa)