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- Collection: Francis F. Zimmerman Photograph Collection
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First school in Media, Providence Rd. and Beatty Rd.
Date: 1870 ca.
This is Zimmerman's copy of an old photograph, which is not dated but could be ca. 1870. The school appears on the 1855 Map of Media, and predated the formation of the borough in 1850. According to Keith Lockhart (delawarecountyhistory.com) it was…
J. D. Chalfant's Livery Stables
Date: 1890 ca.
This is Zimmerman's copy of an old photograph, which is not dated but could be ca. 1890. The business stood on the northwest corner of State Street and Jackson Street.
Media Fire Company members with equipment in front of Borough Hall
Date: 1895
This is Zimmerman's copy of an old photograph, dated 1895.
Media Junior Chamber of Commerce (Jaycees). Clean Up on State Street.
Date: 1948-05-15
Inside School Pharmacy, refreshments after the clean up. Joseph Gershenfeld, owner, behind the counter. Bud Arters may be the man in the foreground.
Jesse M. Baker Post, Spanish American War Veterans, 6th Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers
Address: Not Known
Date: 1949-04-30
Reunion committee, Spanish American War Veterans, 6th Regiment PA Volunteers. Identifications by Frank Lees: Left to right: Paul Garcia, secretary; E. Morris DeCann, treasurer; Walter S. Worrall, E. V. Streeper, William Westcott, president and…
Media Dry Cleaners
Date: 1949-05-01
Identifications, from the negative envelope, are probably left to right: Michael Alexander, F. T. Dotts, Frank Lomas, and Samuel Abrams, who is coatless and was an employee of the company.
Looking east at trolley on State Street and bus on South Avenue (now Veterans Square)
Date: 1949-05-01
Centennial book 27. Negative damaged.
Media Businessmen's Association
Address: Not Known
Date: 1949-05-01
Left to right: Frank, Lees, Lillian Baker, Walter Strine. Centennial Book 40
Media Junior Chamber of Commerce (Jaycees)
Address: Not Known
Date: 1949-05-26
New Board officers. Left to right: Norman Yarnall, Edwin E. Lippincott 2d (Theodore Lippincott), Robert M. Shellenberger, Jr., Samuel M. Blumberg, Jr., L. Benjamin Palmer, and John E. Houtman (Gus D. Houtman, Jr.). Names from the Chester Times, May…
Media Furniture Store
Address: 104 W. Baltimore Ave., Media (Pa.)
Date: 1950
"Airbrushed copy negative. Made for owner Sadir Elias's ad" in the Centennial Book 106. This building still (2020 ) stands, occupying the front and side yard of a much older Victorian twin that looms behind it.
Hotel Media
Address: 402 W. Baltimore Ave., Media (Pa.)
Date: 1950
Airbrushed copy negative. Made for Hotel Media's advertising in Centennial Book 110. This building sat on the southwest corner of Baltimore Ave and Lemon St. Hill's Seafood now (2020) occupies the site.
