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.
This photograph probably taken as part of an investigation of an accident at this railroad crossing. End view of boxcar: "N.Y.C & H.R. 16745" [New York Central and Hudson River Railroad]