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Turkey, McClure, with Providence Friends Meeting in background
Address: 105 N. Providence Rd., Media (Pa.)
Date: 1890-1900
Turkeys, McClure, with Providence Friends Meeting in background
Address: 105 N. Providence Rd., Media (Pa.)
Date: 1890-1900
Risley house, southwest corner 5th and Monroe, 8:00 A.M.
Date: 1889-02-12
Used in “Media, Penna.” publication, 1889, p. 10: “Residence of S. D. Risley, M.D.”
Swarthmore College
Address: 500 College Ave., Swarthmore (Pa.)
Date: 1895-1900
View from railroad tracks all the way up to the main building, no Parrish Hall. The oak tree allee along this walk were then newly planted.
Sharpless stable, interior
Address: Not Known
Date: 1889 (circa)
John Sharpless was murdered in his stable in 1885. The case dragged on until 1889, and was the most sensational in Delaware County history up to that point. These may be Appleton's retrospective photos of the scene of the crime.
State Street view
Address: 341 W. State St., Media (Pa.)
Date: 1895
Looking east from about 341 W. State St., the photographer's home.
Slap boy
Address: 341 W. State St., Media (Pa.)
Date: 1900-07-15
Barefoot African-American boy. Probably in Appleton's backyard; same arbor as in AP-4001.
Sharpless Rock
Address: Not Known
Date: 1895-1900
Rock still sits somewhere near Ridley Creek; "J. S. 1682" is carved into top of rock.
Steamboat “City of Chester”, on the Delaware River
Date: 1895-1900
Launched May 2, 1888 from Harlan and Hollingsworth shipyard, in Wilmington
J. H. Sloan, Media Odorless Excavator Company
Date: 1895-1900
Probably an employee and not Sloan, the owner, at the reins of the horse. This was an early version of a septic tank cleaning service, which used vacuum pumps to remove the contents of outhouses and cesspools before a public sewer system was…
Sloan’s barn under construction, Baltimore Pike east of Beatty Road
Date: 1899-12-27
This looks like the barn could have been under reconstruction after a fire. 1892 Media map shows the M. W. Sloan estate at this location.
Sue Appleton, Christmas tree
Address: 341 W. State St., Media (Pa.)
Date: 1899-12-27
The photographer's daughter at the family's Christmas tree.
