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Ridley Creek at Smedley’s Swamp

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-08052.jpg
Date: 1900 (circa)
Exact location not known.

Rogers' grave etc. with flowers, at Media Cemetery.

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5181-2.jpg
Date: 1895-1900
Entrance off N. Orange St., between Kirk La. and Rose Tree Rd. See also AP-5064. The Smedley family intermarried with the Rogers family. This is probably the grave of Ellen Jane Smedley Rogers who died 18 Oct 1899.

Rogers' grave, with boy in sailor's suit by grave in Media Cemetery

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5064-1.jpg
Date: 1890-1900
Entrance off N. Orange St., between Kirk La. and Rose Tree Rd. See notes and second photo at AP-5181

Rogers' grave, with flowers and boy in sailor's suit at grave, in Media Cemetery.

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5181-1.jpg
Date: 1895-1900
Entrance off N. Orange St., between Kirk La. and Rose Tree Rd. See also AP-5064. The Smedley family intermarried with the Rogers family. This is probably the grave of Ellen Jane Smedley Rogers who died 18 Oct 1899.

Rose Tree dogs

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-8090.jpg
Date: 1900 (circa)
These were most likely dogs used in fox hunts that originated at Rose Tree.

Rose Tree Inn

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5669.jpg
Date: 1905-1909

Rose Tree Lodge No. 275, I.O.O.F., Media, Pa.

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-8091.jpg
Date: 1900 (circa)
International Order of Odd Fellows. This group met in a building in the Rose Tree section of Upper Providence Township, Pa.

Sandy Bank School bus

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-08029.jpg
Date: 1950 (circa)

Sandy Bank School class portrait

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-08034A.jpg
Date: 1909 (circa)
Partial IDs included; front row only. Copy of original photograph; courtesy of Harry Baile

Sandy Bank School class portrait

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-08034B.jpg
Date: 1909 (circa)
Partial IDs included; front row only. Copy of original photograph; courtesy of Harry Baile

Saw Mill at Sycamore Mills

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-08023.jpg
Date: 1890 (circa)
On Ridley Creek, but exact location uncertain.

Smedley’s Meadow

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-08044.jpg
Date: 1900 (circa)
Along Ridley Creek. See also P-08048 and P-08050 and P-08044.

View looking south along Ridley Creek valley toward Media railroad bridge

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-04050B.jpg
Date: 1894
Typed caption on reverse reads: "View taken from the creek road showing [Clothier] Mansion on hill, the high bridge of the P.R.R. [Pennsylvania Railroad] and the wooden covered bridge over Ridley Creek. To the right of the covered bridge may be seen…

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."…

Wind Mill on Hart Farm, Ridley Creek Road

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-08037.jpg
Date: Unknown
This may be a copy of a postcard. More information on this image would be welcomed.

Woodmen

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5166.jpg
Date: 1895-1900
Probably at C. Frank Williamson’s lumber yard, near railroad station in Media. Scene includes railroad flatbed cars loaded with lumber, woodsmen with axes, and huge uncut tree trunks with bark still attached.