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.
Peter Melody, driving a horse and wagon on Ninth Street in Chester on Nov. 26, 1901, was struck by a trolley car; he and the horse were both killed. Appleton photographed this scene as part of the legal case related to this accident.
Peter Melody, driving a horse and wagon on Ninth Street in Chester on Nov. 26, 1901, was struck by a trolley car; he and the horse were both killed. Appleton photographed this scene as part of the legal case related to this accident.
This was a float in Media's 1900 Semi-Centennial celebration. Written on cart: “No one cares for me.” This company was later known as the Media Coal and Ice Co.
The small building pictured was remodeled and absorbed into the larger church and Sunday School complex now on this site. The cemetery sits behind the building.
Married Henry Ewing Macky; she and her husband are both buried in Media Cemetery. She may be the mother of Baby Macky (see AP-5903 and AP-5904) and is the sister of Marjorie Brooks (see AP-8345 and AP-5507).
