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Dale mansion
Address: 423 S. Jackson St., Media (Pa.)
Date: 1895-1900
This would have been about where the Church of Christ (housed in the former Woman's Club of Media building) is now located (2018).
Charter House, D. R. Hawkins, Proprietor. Copy from map
Address: 201 W. State St., Media (Pa.)
Date: 1855
Photographed from 1855 "Map of Media." Photograph used in the book Twice Adopted, by "En Quad" [Thomas R. Vernon]. Media, Pa.: Cooper & Vernon, Publishers, 1898, facing page 129. This novel tells the story of two adopted children in Media who grow up…
Dutton Otley Cummins
Address: 341 W. State St., Media (Pa.)
Date: 1895-1900
Photo taken in front of 341 W. State St., Appleton's house
Dutton Otley Cummins
Location: Media (Pa.)
Date: 1895-1900
House number in photograph is 349. Sign on porch post mentions Dr. Laine, probably Dr. D. T. Laine.
Thomas V. Cooper, residence
Address: 2 E. Baltimore Pike, Media (Pa.)
Date: 1889-01-29
Media 1897 Directory: Washington (now Baltimore), corner of Jackson. Used in “Media, Penna.” publication, 1889, p. 16
First Methodist Episcopal Church, Christmas house
Address: 350 W. State St., Media (Pa.)
Date: 1895-1900
Location not identified in index, but located by comparing the design and arrangement of windows to other pictures of this church
Campbell A.M.E. Church
Date: 1889-01-19
This church stood on the south side of W. 3rd Street, between Orange St. and the former North Ave., now Broomall St. According to Frank Lees in From Media's Past (50), the cornerstone for the new church, at 3rd and Olive streets, was laid in 1930.
Charter House
Address: 201 W. State St., Media (Pa.)
Date: 1889-02-14
Used In “Media, Penna.” publication, 1889, p. 13
Cutter, Charles and Dick
Address: Not Known
Date: 1895-1900
Appleton's index entry, used as the title, leaves it unclear who (in this photograph of a man, horse, and horse-drawn vehicle, in a farm setting) is Charles, who is Dick, and if Cutter is a family name.
Horne clock
Location: Delaware County (Pa.)
Date: 1895-1900
Grandfather clock probably in photographer Stephen Horne Appleton's parents' or grandparents' house
Catholic Church, side view
Address: 30 E. Franklin St., Media (Pa.)
Date: 1889-01-19
Full name is Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary Catholic Church, or Nativity BVM, for short.
Catholic Church, front view
Address: 30 E. Franklin St., Media (Pa.)
Date: 1889-01-19
Full name is Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary Catholic Church, or Nativity BVM, for short.
Chestnut Grove House
Date: 1889-02-02
Used in “Media, Penna.” publication, 1889, p. 58. This later became the Colonial. This occupied property south of Jefferson St. and West of Orange St., above the railroad tracks just inside the Media borough boundary.
Delaware County Court House and jail, copy from map
Date: 1855
Photographed from 1855 "Map of Media." Photograph used in the book Twice Adopted, by "En Quad" [Thomas R. Vernon]. Media, Pa.: Cooper & Vernon, Publishers, 1898, facing page 8. This novel tells the story of two adopted children in Media who grow up…
