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Riddle's race
Date: 1894
The mill race is rejoining Chester Creek downstream of the Riddle’s Mill, near Glen Riddle. See AP-5183-2 for more information.
Quinby’s hearse, in front of funeral home
Address: 206 S. Orange St., Media (Pa.)
Date: 1890-1900
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.
Fronefield houses
Address: Media (Pa.)
Date: 1890-1900
Photo shows Media Club at left, on corner of Baltimore Pike, and 205 and 207 South Avenue, to corner of Franklin St.
Bicycle boat, ashore
Date: 1890-1900
Illustrated advertising flyer for H. C. Johnson Water Cycle is included in Volume 26-2 of the Streeper Collection: "The latest Cycling novelty now in the market is the Johnson Water Cycle, which no doubt will become quite popular with all lovers of…
Mary Wilkinson
Location: Delaware County (Pa.)
Date: 1890-1900
Mary was daughter of Sarah and Edgar Wilkinson; Sarah (or Sallie) was Deborah Appleton's sister.
Stephen H. Appleton, as Worshipful Master
Location: Media (Pa.)
Date: 1890-1900
Worshipful Master is a Masonic Lodge position. The photographer wears a Masonic apron, white gloves and tuxedo with a Masonic pin on the lapel, and poses next to a certificate from the Masons on which sits his black top hat.
Llanerch, railroad tracks at
Address: Llanerch, Haverford Township (Pa.)
Date: 1900 (circa)
Track workers at a railroad crossing. Location is approximate.
Media Post Office, interior. State and Plum, ca. 1905
Address: 18 W. State St., Media (Pa.)
Date: 1905 (circa)
Furnishings "Designed and manufactured by the I. B. Williams Co., Seward, Nebraska"
Samuel Johnson death warrant, certificate, William F. Mathues, Sherriff
Location: Media (Pa.)
Date: 1889 (circa)
Samuel Johnson was accused of the murder of John Sharpless and sat in the Media Jail awaiting death by hanging for several years before his sentence was commuted to life in prison. Appleton probably photographed this 1886 document several years after…
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)