View includes high school athletic field, Lines Motor Co. on State Street, in center, and Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary Catholic Church, in upper right.
the 1909 Mueller map identifies the church and surrounding complex as the Convent of the Holy Child Jesus. The other building is the Sharon Hill School. Calcon Hook Road winds through the upper left. The entire site is now (2020) occupied by Academy Park High School and Sharon Hill Elementary School. The original school was demolished, and only one building of the convent complex remains. The Academy Park stop on what is now SEPTA's Wilmington Line shows up as a simple shed on the inbound side of the tracks. Thanks to Ted Xaras and Chuck Denlinger for identifying the location of this photograph.
View looking west on Providence Road. Diagonal in foreground is Springfield Road. Houses under construction are on Aldan Avenue, Walnut Avenue, and Magnolia Avenue (which has yet to be extended into this development.
This view shows the Delaware River and the built-up part of Chester and vicinity at the top. Part of Chester Creek is also visible. The intersection of Concord Road and Dutton Mill Road (running along the bottom of the photo) is in the lower left.
The church fronts on Main Street, Darby. The four-lane road is MacDade Boulevard, with Holy Cross Cemetery in upper left. The golf course is now gone, but one of the roads in the development that replaced the course is named Golf Road.
View shows buildings that are now the Collingdale Borough community center and police station, at MacDade Boulevard and Clifton Street. Har Zion Cemetery is in the upper right corner of the photo.
View shows St. Joseph's School in Collingdale in foreground, and Har Zion, Mt. Lebanon and Mt. Jacobs cemeteries in background. The school closed in 2010.