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  • Street Address is exactly "1 E. Front St., Media (Pa.)"
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American Red Cross building, former home of Sprogell School.

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Date: 1950-03-04
The building later became the home of the Media Upper Providence Free Library. It was demolished in 2016, and a new library built on the site. Centennial Book 51.

Media Centennial Celebration

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Date: 1950-06-09
Display at American Red Cross headquarters.

Media Centennial Celebration

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Date: 1950-06-09
Display at American Red Cross headquarters.

Media Centennial Celebration. Sunday.

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Zimmerman/ZM-3274.jpg
Date: 1950-06-04
Two couples, in vintage costumes, riding in a horse-drawn carriage, on Front Street east of Jackson Street. The American Red Cross building is behind the carriage.

Media Centennial Celebration. Sunday.

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Zimmerman/ZM-3275.jpg
Date: 1950-06-04
Two couples , in vintage costumes, riding in a horse-drawn carriage, on Front Street east of Jackson Street. The American Red Cross building is behind the carriage. A man in costume stands beside the carriage.

Media Centennial Celebration. Sunday.

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Zimmerman/ZM-3276.jpg
Date: 1950-06-04
Two couples, in vintage costumes, riding in a horse-drawn carriage, on Front Street east of Jackson Street. The American Red Cross building is behind the carriage.

Media Free Library

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-12003B.jpg
Date: 1960 (circa)

Media Free Library

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Date: 1960 (circa)

Media Free Library

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Date: 1961-04-11
Sign for "Child Guidance Clinic of Delaware County--Mary Louise Trainer Stephenson Memorial, 2nd Floor" indicates that this agency shared the library building.

Media Free Library Clock

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-12019.jpg
Date: 1951 (circa)
Martz (or Marty?) Boyd, top, and Ben Miller, below.

Media Free Library Doll Display

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-12012.jpg
Date: 1955 (circa)
Mary Williamson, wife of board member C. Frank Williamson, is showing the doll to a woman and two Girl Scouts. These dolls (as of 2019) are in the collection of the Media Historic Archives Commission.

Media Free Library, entrance

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Date: 1961-04-11
Date for 12030 series based on dated print of this photograph, April 11, 1961, in Folder 12028

Media Free Library, interior shelves of new room

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-12030F.jpg
Date: 1961
This photograph shows the new room added to the back of the library, dedicated in April 1961. See Chester Times article, April 21, 1961, page 5.

Media Free Library, interior shelves of new room

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-12030G.jpg
Date: 1961
This photograph shows the new room added to the back of the library, dedicated in April 1961. See Chester Times article, April 21, 1961, page 5.

Media Free Library, ribbon cutting by Arthur Wiltshire, board member

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-12030H.jpg
Date: 1961
The library's new room was opened in this ribbon cutting ceremony on April 22. 1961. See Chester Times article, April 21, 1961, page 5.

Media Free Library, ribbon cutting by Arthur Wiltshire, board member

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Date: 1961
The library's new room was opened in this ribbon cutting ceremony on April 22. 1961. See Chester Times article, April 21, 1961, page 5.

Media-Upper Providence Free Library

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Date: 1970 (circa)
This is probably story hour. Picture dated from clothing on children and pop-art poster in background.