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  • Street Address is exactly "W. State St. and S. Olive St., Media (Pa.)"
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Looking east on State Street at Olive Street, with trolley

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-01090.jpg
Date: 1920 (circa)
Frank Lees caption: This shows the big red car of the Philadelphia and West Chester Traction Company, headed towards Upper Darby. The store on the corner was a candy store. The store on the left is Major's Plumbing Shop. Copy of original photo;…

Looking west at northwest corner of State and Olive streets

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-01312A.jpg
Date: 1940 (circa)
View includes, from east to west, Media Drug Stores, Arcadia Restaurant, former Pastime Theater, State Grille Restaurant, Snowden's Hardware, and other stores beyond.

Media Centennial Celebration. County Day

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Zimmerman/ZM-3347.jpg
Date: 1950-06-05
Media High School Marching Band. View looking east on State Street. Sun Ray Drug Co. and Horen's Budget Shoe Shop also shown; both stores on the north side of State Street at Olive Street.

Media Centennial Celebration. Storefront historical displays

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Zimmerman/ZM-3537.jpg
Date: 1950-06-09
Sun Ray Drug Store was on the northwest corner of State Street and Olive Street. Signs in display identify cathedral chairs, an Indian shawl, and other items, all 100 years old.

Northwest corner of State Street and Olive Street

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-01228.jpg
Date: 1890 (circa)
Copy of original photo; source not noted

State Street at Olive Street, showing Buckley and Haldeman buildings

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-01319.jpg
Date: 1900 (circa)
This information is from Frank Lees' caption on the folder. No caption on photograph.

State Street, looking west from Olive Street

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-01242.jpg
Date: 1900
View includes Snowden's, Kirschnek Jewelers, and the First National Bank. Copy of original photo; source not noted

Sun Ray Drug Company

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Zimmerman/ZM-2692.jpg
Date: 1950-03-06
Anna Mary Walters School once occupied this site, and later, the Media Drug store. Frank Lees, in his photo caption on the print founded in Photo Folder 1345, called this the Haldeman Building.

T. J. and I. L. Haldeman's Dry Goods & Grocery Depot, northwest corner of State Street and Olive Street

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-01043.jpg
Date: 1854 (circa)
Frank Lees caption: "This is the northwest corner of State and Olive Street about 1860. The building is Haldeman's department store. On the second floor are the first offices of the First National Bank of Media, now [in 1979] Provident National…