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  • Street Address is exactly "18 W. State St., Media (Pa.)"
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Crime scene. Post Office robbery, Media

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-8356.jpg
Date: 1906
The caption for this photo, printed in the Philadelphia Inquirer on April 25, 1906, reads: "Wrecked Safe in Media Post Office: Yeggmen set off a charge that demolished the outer part of the receptacle last night. The inner lining was intact. The…

Crime scene. Post Office robbery, Media

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-8356-5.jpg
Date: 1906
See description at AP-8356. A bottle on a ledge by the safe, somehow unbroken after the explosion, bears this label: Pomeroy's Combined Writing & Copying Fluid. Flows Freely, Will Not Mould. Newark, N.J. One letter sits on the floor in front of the…

Media Post Office, interior. State and Plum, ca. 1905

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5104.jpg
Date: 1905 (circa)
Furnishings "Designed and manufactured by the I. B. Williams Co., Seward, Nebraska"