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Mrs. T. R. Vernon at the piano
Location: Delaware County (Pa.)
Date: 1890-1900
Blanche Knight married Thomas Rufus Vernon, Sr. in 1880. Se AP-5262 for the Vernon family posed around this piano.
D. A. Vernon
Location: Delaware County (Pa.)
Date: 1890-1900
Copy of an original portrait (either a photograph, drawing, or engraving); the original is signed E. J. Willcox, 1889. David Ashbridge Vernon was one of the founders of the Delaware County American. He died in 1888.
Union Hotel, S. H. Serrill
Address: Not Known
Date: 1890-1900
Newspaper lists this as Linwood (1886) and Marcus Hook and vicinity (1902): "located at the Cross Roads, Linwood". I think this is the same place. See AP-5223 for close-up of Elsie Serrill and child on this porch.
Middletown Presbyterian Church, interior
Date: 1900 (circa)
The small building pictured was remodeled and absorbed into the larger church and Sunday School complex now on this site.
Painting, copy, showing hunters with shotguns and several dogs
Address: Not Known
Date: 1900 (circa)
Quinby’s wagon
Address: 206 S. Orange St., Media (Pa.)
Date: 1900 (circa)
Man holding horse, 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.
Quinby’s wagon
Address: 206 S. Orange St., Media (Pa.)
Date: 1900 (circa)
Man holding horse, in front of business of “Mrs. A. J. Quinby & Sons, Funeral Directors”
Providence Meeting House
Address: 105 N. Providence Rd., Media (Pa.)
Date: 1900 (circa)
Stephen Appleton is sitting on the wall.
Providence Meeting House
Address: 105 N. Providence Rd., Media (Pa.)
Date: 1900 (circa)
Stephen Appleton is sitting on the wall.
Webster store, interior
Address: 109 W. State St., Media (Pa.)
Date: 1900 (circa)
P. L. Webster sold butter and eggs at this location in 1900. Media 1897 Directory lists: Pennell L. Webster, Milk, 109 W. State, House, same
Media police
Location: Media (Pa.)
Date: 1891-09-21
Chief of police flanked by four officers, including one whom is African-American. Names, according to Frank Lees, in From Media's Past (45), are Hoopes, Rodenboh [probably Rodenbaugh], Chief McKniff, Sherlock, and Turner. Lees says the picture was…
Peach Bottom railroad engine, L.O.& S.R.R.
Location: Peach Bottom (Pa.)
Date: 1900 (circa)
Location is approximate. LO&SRR stands for Lancaster, Oxford and Southern Rail Road
