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.
Probably at C. Frank Williamson’s lumber yard, near railroad station in Media. Scene includes railroad flatbed cars loaded with lumber, woodsmen with axes, and huge uncut tree trunks with bark still attached.
Probably in Media. This is more a sailboat than a yacht, and is being stored in a yard. The unidentified owner (perhaps builder) of this boat appears in some of the pictures.
Probably in Media. This is more a sailboat than a yacht, and is being stored in a yard. Shows a man with the boat, possibly the unidentified owner (of builder?).
Probably in Media. This is more a sailboat than a yacht, and is being stored in a yard. The unidentified owner (perhaps builder) of this boat appears in some of the pictures.
