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.
Photographed on the State St side of the old Borough Hall, which housed the fire company on the first floor. A memorial portrait for William McKinley, recently assassinated, hangs in the doorway of the Media Free Library, which had space upstairs. Black memorial bunting is also draped on the semicircular porticos.
Original post office, located at Plum and State, is on right. Highbarger & Lynch Furniture, "on State St. near Plum," on left. Modern prints in Photo Folder 7053, captioned by Frank Lees: “Media’s first fire house and first piece of fire equipment is pictured here in 1890 in front of the then fire house at 16 West State Street. This was a hose cart and was pulled by hand to fires.”
View looking south from bridge showing Water Works, covered bridge at Baltimore Pike and view up the Ridley Creek valley. A trolley line crosses the creek in front of the covered bridge.
View looking south from bridge showing Water Works, covered bridge at Baltimore Pike, and view up the Ridley Creek valley. A trolley line crosses the creek in front of the covered bridge.
