The Appleton Collection includes more than 2,000 glass photographic negatives, taken in Media, Pennsylvania and vicinity from 1888 to 1909. Media Historic Archives received the collection in 1988, but until 2018 most of these pictures had never been seen by the public.
Building still under construction. Sign reads: R. C. Ballinger & Co., Builders, 218 N. 13th St. (Philadelphia). Piano store also in photo, to left of bank.
Appears to be either a graduation dress (she is holding a scroll) or a wedding dress. She graduated high school in June 1903, according to the Chester Times of May 27, 1903.