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Richard Webster and family
Location: Delaware County (Pa.)
Date: 1895-1900
Part of glass negative missing but image mostly intact. Mr. Webster is holding a cat.
Vernon residence
Address: Not Known
Date: 1895-1900
Woman and child in carriage posed, with horse, outside. See AP-5230 and AP-5251. This may be the Vernon Farm, in Upper Providence Township, referred to in several newspaper notes.
Shoemakerville Bridge. Looking into Chester toward 24th Avenue.
Date: 1895-1900
This hill and bridge are on Providence Road / Route 320, as it crosses Ridley Creek, which is the border between Chester and Nether Providence. See AP-5246 for same view taken same day.
Shoemakerville Bridge. Looking across Ridley Creek into Chester.
Date: 1895-1900
This hill and bridge are on Providence Road / Route 320, as it crosses Ridley Creek, which is the border between Chester and Nether Providence.
Media Ledger building, State and Jackson
Address: 2 W. State St., Media (Pa.)
Date: 1895-1900
View taken looking from above and across the intersection from a window in the old Borough Hall.
Dr. Harry L. Smedley, letter
Location: Media (Pa.)
Date: 1897-01-18
Photograph of Smedley's letter asking that he not be considered for the post of school director.
Media high railroad bridge over Ridley Creek looking toward Media Station
Date: 1895-1900
See AP-5128 for information on this circle picture.
View across fence through yard to distant houses
Address: Not Known
Date: 1895-1900
Possibly Media. See AP-5128 for information on this circle picture.
Charter House stable
Address: 201 W. State St., Media (Pa.)
Date: 1895-1900
See AP-5128 for information on this circle picture.
Holl Building
Address: 217 W. State St., Media (Pa.)
Date: 1895-1900
Emil Holl ran a jewelry business at this location. See AP-5128 for information on this circle picture.
Circle pictures
Location: Media (Pa.)
Date: 1895-1900
Six untitled photographs of various scenes, probably in or near Media, all shot on the same circular negative. See AP-5128-1 though -6 for individual photographs
Brinton’s tree, Baltimore and Lemon
Date: 1895-1900
According to the 1892 map of Media, Dr. D. G. Brinton lived at the southeast corner of Baltimore Ave. and Lemon St.
Quinby Funeral Home, hearse
Address: 206 S. Orange St., Media (Pa.)
Date: 1895-1900
In front of business of “Mrs. A. J. Quinby & Sons, Funeral Directors." This building still stands and, in 2018, is still almost identical from the outside.
Eagle Hotel
Date: 1898 (circa)
On sign: C. A. Beittenmiller, Proprietor. The J. B. P. Baltz Brewing Co., Lager Beer. Photograph used in the book Twice Adopted, by "En Quad" [Thomas R. Vernon]. Media, Pa.: Cooper & Vernon, Publishers, 1898, facing page 208. This novel tells the…
Leedom’s bridge
Address: Not Known
Date: 1895-1900
Bridge over Darby Creek near Leedom's Mill. ( Caption from a similar photgraph in the collection of the Delaware COunty Institute of Science, Cat. # 1988.2.87B) Appleton's photograph is used facing page 89 in the novel Twice Adopted, by "En Quad."…
Lane Quinn
Location: Appleton Studio
Date: 1895-1900
Perhaps W. Lane Quinn: William Lane Quinn, of Ridley Township
Sharpless, long distance view.
Address: Not Known
Date: 1889 (circa)
John Sharpless was murdered in his stable in 1885. The case dragged on until 1889, and was the most sensational in Delaware County history up to that point. These may be Appleton's retrospective photos of the scene of the crime.
Deborah F. Appleton
Location: Appleton Studio
Date: 1890-1900
The photographer's wife. The negative is heavily retouched with blue paint on glass.
Ogden homestead
Date: 1890-1900
On the northwest corner of the intersection noted below, this house is still standing (2018). Henry Pearson, in Middletown Township, Delaware County, Pa. (286), claims that part of the house was built in 1681.