Stephen H. Appleton Photograph Collection

Albert W. Appleton, the photographer's son, is in center, rear. According to an account in the Philadelphia Times on June 27, 1898, the other graduates were: Cora Adele Jobson, Marion E. Abel, Elizabeth Miller McDowell, Mamie J. Lobb, Mary E. Lockwood, Maud L. Watters, Frances E. Pennell, Albert Emil Holl, H. Atkins John, Howard S. Curtis, and William S. Howard. The man in the center is probably the school's principal, Leon H. Watters (according to Chester Times special Media Semi-Centennial issue, May 19, 1900, page 13)

Albert W. Appleton, the photographer's son, is in center, rear. According to an account in the Philadelphia Times on June 27, 1898, the other graduates were: Cora Adele Jobson, Marion E. Abel, Elizabeth Miller McDowell, Mamie J. Lobb, Mary E. Lockwood, Maud L. Watters, Frances E. Pennell, Albert Emil Holl, H. Atkins John, Howard S. Curtis, and William S. Howard. The man in the center is probably the school's principal, Leon H. Watters (according to Chester Times special Media Semi-Centennial issue, May 19, 1900, page 13)

Probably graduates of Media High School. Photographed at same location as AP-8101-1, which shows the MHS Class of 1898.

Photographed from upper window of Media Borough Hall

View taken looking from above and across the intersection from a window in the old Borough Hall.

This complex now includes Media-Providence Friends School. North Avenue no longer exists.

This complex now includes Media-Providence Friends School. North Avenue no longer exists.

Chief of police flanked by four officers, including one whom is African-American. Names, according to Frank Lees, in From Media's Past (45), are Hoopes, Rodenboh [probably Rodenbaugh], Chief McKniff, Sherlock, and Turner. Lees says the picture was taken September 21,1891.

Furnishings "Designed and manufactured by the I. B. Williams Co., Seward, Nebraska"

Looking from trestle over Ridley Creek toward Elwyn Institute, in distance

Locomotive is puffing a cloud of smoke.

Used in “Media, Penna.” publication, 1889, p. 42

Locomotive is puffing a cloud of smoke.

Buildings still standing as of 2018

Address either 100 S. Orange St. or 300 W. State St. Other buildings in photo are 102 S. Orange (to left, with possibly a tailor shop of (Israel?) Menges, ("Repairing...Neatly...Done"), and 306 W. State St. to right, S. P. Rush's store (see AP-5047 for front view). Also visible is the wall of 308? W. State St. A barber pole stands on the corner, (Schuchardt had a barber sop at 122 S. Orange), and signs on building read "Gowns" and "Misses Monahan Dress Making."

Full name of the bank became Media and 69th St. Title and Trust Co. At this time it was located on the first floor of the Delaware County Institute of Science building.