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Aerial view of ballfields, probably Delaware County, Pa.
Location: Unknown
Date: 1935-1945
View shows combination football and baseball field, with bleachers set up for football
Aerial view of Folcroft, Pa.
Location: Folcroft (Pa.)
Date: 1935-1945
View shows Folcroft School, facing on Elmwood Avenue at Primos Avenue, northeast corner. This is now (2020) the Folcroft Police Department and District Court.
Aerial view of Swarthmore, Pa.
Location: Swarthmore (Pa.)
Date: 1935-1945
The school in upper right corner of photograph is at the intersection of College Avenue and Princeton Avenue. Top center of the photo shows the intersection of Princeton, Elm, and Swarthmore avenues. Swarthmore Avenue is the diagonal road that…
Aerial view of Holy Cross Cemetery, Yeadon, Pa.
Location: Yeadon (Pa.)
Date: 1935-1945
View is looking north. Houses in upper right are on Yeadon Avenue.
Aerial view of Drexel Hill, Pa. and vicinity
Location: Drexel Hill (Pa.)
Date: 1935-1945
Diagonal road is Springfield Road. Baltimore Pike runs from left to right. The school complex at the left, on Diamond Avenue, included the smaller Clifton Heights Elementary School, which burned in 1974 after 103 years in service. After the fire,…
Aerial view of Williamson School, Elwyn, Pa.
Date: 1935-1945
The school is now (2020) known as Williamson College of the Trades. The campus includes several buildings designed by architect Frank Furness. See also P-18022.
William H. Ridley
Address: Media (Pa.)
Date: 1935 ca.
He lived from 1867 to 1945. He was the first child born to Martha Jane and Cornelius Ridley in Media.
Bowling alley and pool room above Pierson’s Garage, 311 W. Baltimore Avenue
Address: 311 Baltimore Ave., Media (Pa.)
Date: 1935 (circa)
Sign above alley reads: Do Not Step Over the Foul Line.
Woodward's Bakery, northwest corner of State and Orange streets
Date: 1934-03
No identifications, but some of the same women appear in this photo and in P-01148.
Mary Matthews, Media Public School report card
Address: Media (Pa.)
Date: 1933-1934
Report Card, Media Public School for Mary Matthews, grade 8. Issued for the school year 1933-1934. Teacher was Miss Gamble.
Sixth annual banquet of Elvira Lodge 128, Shepherds of Bethlehem, March 17, 1931, at McCallister's.
Date: 1931-03-17
McCallister's was a restaurant or reception hall at 1815 Spring Garden Street in Philadelphia
Looking east at the south side of State Street, from east of Olive Street to Jackson Street
Date: 1931-01
This photograph was taken by Edward V. Streeper Jr. in January 1931, and removed from one of his scrapbooks. A modern enlargement was made from his original negative, also enclosed, with a vintage print. Streeper's identifications of the buidligns…
Northeast corner of State Street and South Avenue (now Veteran's Square).
Date: 1931 (circa)
Frank Lees caption: "Showing ASCO (American Stores Company) and the Henry C. Snowden Hardware Store." This is probably a Streeper photo.
Media High School football team, 1931
Address: 120 E. Front St., Media (Pa.)
Date: 1931
See names on accompanying sheet. Copy of original photo; source not noted
View of south side of Baltimore Avenue, in west end of Media, Pa.
Address: 221 Brooke St., Media (Pa.)
Date: 1930-1940
View includes Allen's Scrapple-Pork Products--Clement E. Allen, on Brooke St. near Baltimore Avenue, and many other houses.
Malin Building, Orange and Baker streets
Date: 1930-1940
A negative is included in this folder. Photography probably by Streeper.