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Palmer’s Dam and Mill on Crum Creek
Date: 1900 (circa)
Frank Lees caption: "This is Palmer's Mill, alongside Palmers Dam on the Crum Creek. Looking carefully you can see a fisherman sitting on the bank. Also you can see the spillway for the race which ran the huge water wheels in the mill. This mill was…
Orange Street in the moonlight, looking north from Ridley Creek Road
Date: 1912 (circa)
Frank Lees caption: "Looking up the hill, in Upper Providence Township, towards Media on South Orange Street. On the left is Ridley Creek Road, and in the distance Upper Providence School #1. Orange Street was a dirt road, covered with snow. Just…
Old house in Media Park
Address: Not Known
Date: 1902 (circa)
Datestone reads L, I & S, 1791; or I____ and S____ L____. According to 1909 Mueller map of Media, Media Park was an area south of the borough in Upper Providence Township, including Orange St. and South Ave. below the railroad tracks. The datestone…
Media-Elwyn High Bridge
Date: 1906 (circa)
Bridge over Ridley Creek. Probably looking from the east side of the trestle.
Media railroad cut
Date: 1890-1900
Locomotive is puffing a cloud of smoke.
Media railroad bridge, perspective
Date: 1890-1900
Looking from trestle over Ridley Creek toward Elwyn Institute, in distance
Media high railroad bridge, top
Date: 1900 (circa)
Looking northwest; shows Elwyn Institute buildings in distance
Media high railroad bridge, side
Date: 1900 (circa)
Locomotive 177, pulling three passenger cars; stopped on bridge. Shows original stone piers for bridge, the supports of which are steel in this photo.
Media high railroad bridge, engine on bridge going rapidly
Date: 1888-12-25
Media high railroad bridge, diagonal
Date: 1900 (circa)
Locomotive 177, pulling three passenger cars; stopped on bridge
Media high railroad bridge, diagonal
Date: 1900 (circa)
Locomotive 177, pulling three passenger cars; stopped on bridge
Media high railroad bridge over Ridley Creek looking toward Media Station
Date: 1895-1900
See AP-5128 for information on this circle picture.
Malin Homestead
Address: Louis W. Scott Memorial Park, Ridley Creek Rd., Upper Providence (Delaware County, Pa. : Township)
Date: 1909 (circa)
Frank Lees caption: "The Malin family homestead was located on Ridley Creek Road just South of the Red Bridge at Rose Tree Road, very near where the, Brookwood Home is today (12-7-85). The photo shows a date of 1785, however papers and grants show…
M. E. Michener, Media Ice Company wagon
Date: 1909-05-12
Wagon is parked in front of 533 S. Orange St. This company was later known as the Media Coal and Ice Co.
Lovers Lane, Idlewild Woods
Date: 1908
"Red Ink" photo, series by same photographer named for red ink used for writing descriptions on reverse side of similarly-mounted images. This is possibly the lane that one ran on the Park Avenue side of the Idlewild Hotel, which is now unused and is…
Looking across South Avenue
Date: 1906 (circa)
A winter scene. This is probably in the hilly section of South Avenue south of the railroad tracks, in Upper Providence Township.
June 1916. Concrete bridge over Ridley Creek at foot of property.
Date: 1916-06
This bridge carried Baltimore Pike over the creek at Palmer's Dam. View looking south at railroad bridge in background. Frank Lees Slide 1568. One of a series of photographs, possibly by same photographer or from same album. Date not certain.…
Irving grave, with flowers, at Media Cemetery.
Date: 1900-1905
Media Cemetery identified as location from Mary W. Thorn gravestone in background. This grave could be for Henry Baker Irving (died 1900) or Laura E. Irving (died 1903).
Idlewild Cottage, west end
Date: 1897 (circa)
Designed by Frank Furness. Potted plants on porch and in yard.
Idlewild Cottage, west end
Date: 1897 (circa)
Designed by Frank Furness. Potted plants on porch and in yard.
Idlewild Cottage, south side, Gayley St.
Date: 1895-1900
Designed by Frank Furness
Idlewild Cottage, north side
Date: 1890-1900
Designed by Frank Furness. Potted plants on porch and on ground outside house.
Houses at Duffs, Moylan, Pa.
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.
House opposite Media Park
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. Frank Lees wrote that this house is now on what is known as the Upper Bank Nursery property. The property is…