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Trolley mail car between 5th and 6th on Olive St.

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5035-1.jpg
Date: 1896-03-03
Chester Traction Co. trolley car bedecked with bunting and banner reading: Chester Media U.S. Mail. Conductor and operator standing at either end of car. According to an article in The Philadelphia Times, March 3, 1896, this service was inaugurated…

Trolley mail car between 5th and 6th on Olive St.

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5035.jpg
Date: 1896-03-02
Chester Traction Co. trolley car bedecked with bunting and banner reading: Chester Media U.S. Mail. Conductor and operator standing at either end of car. According to an article in The Philadelphia Times, March 3, 1896, this service was inaugurated…

Sharpless house

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5034.jpg
Date: 1891 (circa)

Dr. Frances Baker home in snowstorm

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5018.jpg
Date: 1891 (circa)
Baker was the wife of James W. Baker, pictured at AP-5051.

Watters Clock

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5017.jpg
Location: Media (Pa.)
Date: 1895 (circa)
The Watters Electric Program Clock, patented Oct. 29, 1895, by L. H. Watters, Media, PA. Patent 549,038. Filed Nov. 30, 1891

Media high railroad bridge, old

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5016-1.jpg
Location: Media (Pa.)
Date: 1898 (circa)
Same view as AP-4114. Trestle on SEPTA Media Elwyn Line, crossing Ridley Creek

Media Fire Company hook and ladder truck

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5006.jpg
Date: 1893-1895
Frank Lees caption: “Media’s first ladder wagon ca. 1895 shown in front of Way House, 11 W. State St., location of Media Office Supply.”

Stotebury, woman and child, copy

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-4519-2.jpg
Location: Appleton Studio
Date: 1905-1909
May be Stolebury. This is the photographers copy of one of his own photographs, to which he had presumably lost the negative.

Stotebury, woman and child, copy

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-4518.jpg
Date: 1905-1909
May be Stolebury. See also AP-5542. Copy of photograph taken in studio of W. J. Davis in Bozeman, Montana.

Unknown boy, copy

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-4517.jpg
Date: 1905-1909

Unknown girl, copy

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-4516.jpg
Date: 1905-1909

Unknown woman, copy

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-4515-1.jpg
Date: 1905-1909

Unknown child, copy

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-4514-1.jpg
Date: 1905-1909

Unknown baby outside in yard on rocking chair

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-4511.jpg
Date: 1905-1909
Same yard as in AP-4502 and AP-4503