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.
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 installed in Media. Sign on building reads "W. Washington St..," now W. Baltimore Pike. 1897 Media Directory lists J. Harris Sloan, contractor, at the corner of Washington Ave. and Olive St. The 1892 map of Media shows another Sloan location at the corner of Washington Ave. and South Ave.
Baby might be Brooke Tawney; J. T. Reynolds would have been his grandfather according to obituary. Media Directory for 1897 lists John T. Reynolds, lawyer, 10 South Ave., 344 W. Front St.
Photograph of painting of barefoot shoeshine boy on a white marble stoop. Photograph used in the book Twice Adopted, by "En Quad." [Thomas R. Vernon]. Media, Pa., Cooper & Vernon, Publishers, 1898, facing page 104. This novel tells the story of two adopted children in Media who grow up to get married, and uses many real people names and place names. One of adoptees is named Jack Mateland. Maitland was a common name in Delaware County, but no Jack or John Maitland has yet been located in another source, so this name may be fictional.
Used in Media Semi-centennial booklet, 1900, in combination photo showing Media's Original Farm Houses. 1892 map calls this 313 W. State, and the property of Dr. Rowland.
