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Pennsylvania Railroad, tower at Wawa

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-04033.jpg
Date: 1900-1910
Copy of original photo; source not noted

Trolley car No. 11, Media-Glen Riddle Line, in Middletown Township

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-04040.jpg
Date: 1900-1910
Sign reads: Elwyn & Lima. Location uncertain. Copy of original photo; source not noted

Edgmont Road, north view, best

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-8261.jpg
Date: 1902 (circa)
Photography probably taken in support of a legal case related to an accident at this location. Farm buildings, fields, and houses in valley at bottom of road.

Edgmont Road, south

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-8262.jpg
Date: 1902 (circa)
Photography probably taken in support of a legal case related to an accident at this location.

Wawa E. railroad bridge, west view

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-8292.jpg
Date: 1902 (circa)
Location is approximate. Bridge crossed Chester Creek; station stood south of Baltimore Pike near Station Rd. in Chester Heights, Pa.

Wawa E. railroad bridge, east

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-8293.jpg
Date: 1902 (circa)
Location is approximate. Bridge crossed Chester Creek; station stood south of Baltimore Pike near Station Rd. in Chester Heights, Pa.

Crook’s roadway, washed gully, close-up

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5350.jpg
Date: 1902-05-02
This may have been taken for a legal case related to the condition of the road, perhaps related to the ditch or drainage that seems to be the focus of this series of pictures, AP-8229-8231.

Crook’s roadway, washed gully, close-up

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5351.jpg
Date: 1902-05-02
This may have been taken for a legal case related to the condition of the road, perhaps related to the ditch or drainage that seems to be the focus of this series of pictures, AP-8229-8231.

Crook’s roadway, Wawa Road, wide view

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5352.jpg
Date: 1902-05-02
This may have been taken for a legal case related to the condition of the road, perhaps related to the ditch or drainage that seems to be the focus of this series of pictures, AP-8229-8231.

Crook’s roadway, Wawa Road Corner, Middletown

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-8229.jpg
Date: 1902-05-02
This may have been taken for a legal case related to the condition of the road, perhaps related to the ditch or drainage that seems to be the focus of this series of pictures, AP-8229-8231.

Crook’s roadway, Middletown, Water trough

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-8230.jpg
Date: 1902-05-02
This may have been taken for a legal case related to the condition of the road, perhaps related to the ditch or drainage that seems to be the focus of this series of pictures, AP-8229-8231.

Crook’s roadway, Middletown, Dam barrel

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-8231.jpg
Date: 1902-05-02
This may have been taken for a legal case related to the condition of the road, perhaps related to the ditch or drainage that seems to be the focus of this series of pictures, AP-8229-8231.

Brinton cottage, Elwyn

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-8225.jpg
Address: Not Known
Date: 1902-06-08
This is probably the home of G. Herbert Brinton, the largest house in an early-20th-century development called Elwynside, south of the Elwyn railroad station. If it still stands, it is on on the driveway that continues east from the dead-end of Elwyn…

Middletown Presbyterian Church, interior

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-8372-25.jpg
Date: 1906-1907
The small building pictured was remodeled and absorbed into the larger church and Sunday School complex now on this site.

Middletown Presbyterian Church, exterior

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-8372-5.jpg
Date: 1906-1907
The small building pictured was remodeled and absorbed into the larger church and Sunday School complex now on this site. The cemetery sits behind the building.

Between Mt. Alverno and Knowlton, Ed, Whitey, and Walker

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-09006.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. Between Mt. Alverno and Knowlton roads, looking upstream. Chester Creek flows in the valley to the left below…

Baltimore Pike being widened

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-09022.jpg
Date: 1938-12-28
Loking east down to Ridley Creek Valley, from about where Black Horse Tavern once stood. Delaware County Court House is building atop the hill in the background.

Group posed at the site of new bridge carrying Baltimore Pike over Ridley Creek.

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-01171.jpg
Date: 1946-1948
Caption on reverse, probably left to right: Sgt. Francis X. Kelly, Pennsylvania State Police; ?, Francis Gray, Tom Pension, ? Harbold, Walter Strine, Frank Snear