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  • Collection: I. Frank Lees Photograph Collection
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W. G. Hough’s Cash Grocery, 102 W. State Street

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-01065.jpg
Date: 1900 (circa)
Shopkeepers and a boy posing outside the shop. Copy of original photo; source not noted

View on Brandywine Creek, probably in Delaware

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-14008A.jpg
Location: Delaware
Date: 1915 (circa)
One of eight photographs on two album pages.

View of valley from Orange Street, Media, Pa.

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-01323.jpg
Location: Media (Pa.)
Date: 1890 (circa)
Exact location of this view is unclear. Perhaps looking northwest from about Baker Street, toward Ridley Creek Valley, or this could be the present (2019) location of Glen Providence Park.

View of valley [of Ridley Creek] and sunset, taken from residence of Dr. A. Vernon, Esq., Media

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-01433B.jpg
Location: Media (Pa.)
Date: 1870-1880
Back of card reads: "Thirty minutes by R.R. from Philadelphia. Media and Vicinity. Photographed by Samuel McMullin, Landscape Photographer, No. 1128 South Ninth Street, Philadelphia. Taken by request of James R. Cummins, Residence, Media, Penna."…

View of State Street, west from Jackson Street, at night

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-01192.jpg
Date: 1950 (circa)
Frank Lees caption: Looking west on State Street from tower of old Media Borough Hall. Copy of original photo; source not noted

View of south side of Baltimore Avenue, in west end of Media, Pa.

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-01106.jpg
Date: 1930-1940
View includes Allen's Scrapple-Pork Products--Clement E. Allen, on Brooke St. near Baltimore Avenue, and many other houses.

View of railroad in Ridley Creek Valley, near Media, Pa. , with Clothier Mansion atop the far hill.

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-04050G.jpg
Date: 1894
Typed caption on reverse reads: "Looking due east showing the valley through which the Cent. Div. runs and the tracks skirting the property from its western boundary to the point it goes onto the high bridge; this frontage is an arc of a circle."…

View of Media from Clothier Mansion on Indian Lane, Middletown Township

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-01382.jpg
Location: Media (Pa.)
Date: 1894
Original caption on reverse: "Property of Lillian Clothier Lesley, taken in 1894. Looking northwest showing P.R.R. [railroad] bridge over Ridley Creek and trains on bridge, showing portion of [west side of] Media." Williamson's lumber-yard is the…

View of lake and boating grounds, Media Park

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-01433D.jpg
Date: 1880 (circa)
Back of card reads: "Thirty minutes by R.R. from Philadelphia. Media and Vicinity. Photographed by Samuel McMullin, Landscape Photographer, No. 1128 South Ninth Street, Philadelphia. Taken by request of James R. Cummins, Residence, Media, Penna."…

View looking south along Ridley Creek valley toward Media railroad bridge

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-04050B.jpg
Date: 1894
Typed caption on reverse reads: "View taken from the creek road showing [Clothier] Mansion on hill, the high bridge of the P.R.R. [Pennsylvania Railroad] and the wooden covered bridge over Ridley Creek. To the right of the covered bridge may be seen…

View looking east on Baltimore Avenue from west of Olive Street

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-01049B.jpg
Date: 1967
View shows Co-operative Store, gas station, Charles A. Limburg [Auto and Trucks] Sales and Service, Scotthaven Tourists, and various vintage automobiles parked and driving on the road.