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Rorer’s store
Address: 201 S. Orange St., Media (Pa.)
Date: 1895-1900
Photo includes other buildings on either side of the store, at the southeast corner of Baltimore Pike and Orange St. Similar to and probably used as basis for engraving in “Media, Penna.” publication, 1889, p. 29. All the buildings in this photograph…
Griscom, children and goat
Location: Delaware County (Pa.)
Date: 1895-1900
Appleton, in his index, misidentified this dog as a goat.
Matheus Grave, with floral decorations, 1895
Address: Not Known
Date: 1895
Fresh grave, with floral decoration reading 'Baby" - appears to be in open field, not in public cemetery
Blizzard, Feb. 1899
Address: 341 W. State St., Media (Pa.)
Date: 1899-02
Looking east from Appleton house at 341 W. State St.
Media Borough Hall
Date: 1893-1900
This building was torn down as part of an urban renewal project in Media, in the late 1960s. Media Fire Hook & Ladder Co. No. 1 occupied the first floor of the building.
Delaware County Institute of Science hall
Address: 11 Veterans Sq., Media (Pa.)
Date: 1893-1900
The Media Title and Trust Co. occupied one floor of the building.
Harry Appleton, double pictures
Location: Media (Pa.)
Date: 1893 (circa)
Two pictures of the photographer's son on one negative. Also shows pot belly stove.
Riddle's mills
Date: 1894
According to Henry S. Pearson, in Middletown Township, Delaware County, Pa. (1985), p. 120, this was originally a nail mill that Samuel Riddle converted to a textile mill after purchasing it in 1875. As late as 1983, the mill was occupied b the…
Rogers' grave etc. with flowers, at Media Cemetery.
Date: 1895-1900
Entrance off N. Orange St., between Kirk La. and Rose Tree Rd. See also AP-5064. The Smedley family intermarried with the Rogers family. This is probably the grave of Ellen Jane Smedley Rogers who died 18 Oct 1899.
Rogers' grave, with flowers and boy in sailor's suit at grave, in Media Cemetery.
Date: 1895-1900
Entrance off N. Orange St., between Kirk La. and Rose Tree Rd. See also AP-5064. The Smedley family intermarried with the Rogers family. This is probably the grave of Ellen Jane Smedley Rogers who died 18 Oct 1899.
Burmont railroad bridge, under construction or repair
Location: Clifton Heights (Pa.)
Date: 1895-1900
This is the bridge over Darby Creek, on the Media train line. What is now called Gladstone station was then called Burmont station, which appears in the background.