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.
Photo includes other buildings on either side of the store, at the southeast corner of Baltimore Pike and Orange St. Similar to and probably used as basis for engraving in “Media, Penna.” publication, 1889, p. 29. All the buildings in this photograph are still standing as of 2018: from left to right: 210 and 216-220 W. Baltimore Pike, and 201, 205, 207, 209, and 211 S. Orange St.
Photo includes other buildings on either side of the store, at the southeast corner of Baltimore Pike and Orange St. Similar to and probably used as basis for engraving in “Media, Penna.” publication, 1889, p. 29. All the buildings in this photograph are still standing as of 2018: from left to right: 210 and 216-220 W. Baltimore Pike, and 201, 205, 207, 209, and 211 S. Orange St.
Photographed from 1855 "Map of Media." This is the west side of South Ave., between Jasper St. and Front St. Photograph used in the book Twice Adopted, by "En Quad" [Thomas R. Vernon]. Media, Pa.: Cooper & Vernon, Publishers, 1898, facing page 16. 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. Caption in this book reads: "The old row on South Avenue, formerly occupied by the lawyers and principal business men of Media."
