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- Collection: I. Frank Lees Photograph Collection
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Hill Farmhouse (Bishop Nursing Home)
Address: 318 S. Orange St., Media (Pa.)
Date: 1960 (circa)
Bishop Nursing Home was located at 318 S. Orange St.; newspaper references start in 1960. According to Frank Lees caption, the building in this photograph is the same (with many additions and alterations) as the Hill Farmhouse. This may be incorrect.…
Delbert home
Address: 327 Meetinghouse La., Media (Pa.)
Date: 1950-1955
According to the 1909 Mueller Atlas, Plate 26 (Nether Providence), the J. Y. Delbert property off Providence Road was called Les Arbres.
Smith homestead
Address: 412 W. State St., Media (Pa.)
Date: 1870-1880
Part of a series of stereoviews of "Media and its vicinity" by Samuel McMullin, Landscape Photographer, No. 1128 South Sixth Street, Philadelphia. Handwritten note reads: "412 W. State St. Purchased by A. Lewis Smith from Judge John M. Broomall in…
Smith homestead
Address: 412 W. State St., Media (Pa.)
Date: 1880-1889
Caption: "412 W. State Street in the 1880s. Taken by Henry C. Smith. Residence of A. Lewis Smith who maintained a law office on the first floor to the right of the evergreen tree."
All the living descendants of Dr. George W. Smith at 412 W. State Street in Media on Christmas Day 1889
Address: 412 W. State St., Media (Pa.)
Date: 1889-12-25
The photo came with the following typescript, which likely indicates the subjects from left to right, going from top to bottom: Rosalba Peale Smith, 18, daughter of Clement L. Smith; Clement Lawrence Smith, 45; Lewis Lawrence Smith, 24, son of A.…
"Reunion in Vienna"
Location: Delaware County (Pa.)
Date: 1900 (circa)
Young people in woods: Girls left to right: Marian Cope, Carmen Major, Helen Janeway, Mary Macintyre. Boy at left is Lewis Cheyney Smith. Boy at right is Lewis Wood Easby. The other two boys are unknown. The title may not be literal; the location may…
Young ladies of Media, about 1905
Location: Media (Pa.)
Date: 1905 (circa)
Helen Janeway, Marian Cope, Ruth Leeds, Mary Mac. (Macintyre), Carmen Major, Betty Fronfield, "Pussy" Leeds, Janet McAllister (order unclear from caption)
The Warriors
Location: Chester (Pa.)
Date: 1898-05-26
Caption reads: "The Warriors. 'Nine Club', Chester, May 26th, 1898. With the compliments of their photographic member, L. D. Woodridge." A later notation, in pencil, reads: "Rebecca Levis Smith in center"
On South Avenue at Jefferson Street
Date: 1906 (circa)
Children on sled: Frank Richards, Mary McIntire [sic: MacIntyre], Anita Maldonado, and Sam Williamson
A bit of Delaware County
Location: Delaware County (Pa.)
Date: 1906 (circa)
No location provided. A dirt road with a barn on the left and fenced-in cornfield on the right.
Looking across South Avenue
Date: 1906 (circa)
A winter scene. This is probably in the hilly section of South Avenue south of the railroad tracks, in Upper Providence Township.
Manley House, southeast corner, Front and Olive streets
Date: 1900 (circa)
Copy of original photo; source not noted
Gifford-Risley House, 430 N. Monroe Street
Date: 1889
Frank Lees caption: "The Risley House stands on the southwest corner of 5th and Monroe Streets and was once the home of Dr. S. D. Risley. This beautiful home had a solarium on the south side and a carriage house in the rear. Dr. Risley's practice…
