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Gas Works
Date: 1890-1900
Exterior of the building, with workmen around door. Sign on door reads: "No admittance except on business."
Media railroad bridge, perspective
Date: 1890-1900
Looking from trestle over Ridley Creek toward Elwyn Institute, in distance
Pennock houses
Address: 506-508 S. Orange St., Media (Pa.)
Date: 1889-01-24
Used in “Media, Penna.” publication, 1889, p.8, with caption: “Pennock Cottages, South Orange St." Three identical pairs of these houses still stand (2018): 506-508, 510-512, and 514-516 S. Orange St.
Idlewild Cottage, north side
Date: 1890-1900
Designed by Frank Furness. Potted plants on porch and on ground outside house.
Rogers' grave, with boy in sailor's suit by grave in Media Cemetery
Date: 1890-1900
Entrance off N. Orange St., between Kirk La. and Rose Tree Rd. See notes and second photo at AP-5181
Media high railroad bridge over Ridley Creek looking toward Media Station
Date: 1895-1900
See AP-5128 for information on this circle picture.
C. Frank Williamson Lumber Yard, Station Road
Date: 1895-1900
Six or seven buildings, some look like dwellings. Sign reads: C. Frank Williamson, Lumber, Coal, Wood and Feed. Railroad tracks in foreground.
Woodmen
Address: 325 Media Station Rd., Media (Pa.)
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.
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.
Rogers' grave, with flowers and boy in sailor's suit at grave, in Media Cemetery.
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 etc. with flowers, at Media Cemetery.
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.
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 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, 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, top
Date: 1900 (circa)
Looking northwest; shows Elwyn Institute buildings in distance
Rose Tree dogs
Date: 1900 (circa)
These were most likely dogs used in fox hunts that originated at Rose Tree.