Text of Mary M. Edwards presentation, on behalf of the Media Civic League, to a Media Borough Council meeting in 1966, disputing a proposed park that would have taken property of the Black community, and suggesting a different location.
Address is given in newspaper advertisements as "South Ave and the Pennsylvania Railroad." The business was located east of Orange Street and north of South Avenue. "Made for Mr. Michener, used for advertisement." Centennial Book 85.
Identifications, from the negative envelope, are probably left to right: Michael Alexander, F. T. Dotts, Frank Lomas, and Samuel Abrams, who is coatless and was an employee of the company.
Delaware County Daily Times article by Sara M. Grasberger, about Media Fellowship House, 320 S. Jackson Street, Media, PA and coordinator Mary M. Edwards.
Photographed on the State St side of the old Borough Hall, which housed the fire company on the first floor. A memorial portrait for William McKinley, recently assassinated, hangs in the doorway of the Media Free Library, which had space upstairs. Black memorial bunting is also draped on the semicircular porticos.
Original post office, located at Plum and State, is on right. Highbarger & Lynch Furniture, "on State St. near Plum," on left. Modern prints in Photo Folder 7053, captioned by Frank Lees: “Media’s first fire house and first piece of fire equipment is pictured here in 1890 in front of the then fire house at 16 West State Street. This was a hose cart and was pulled by hand to fires.”
Left to right: William Hannum, Robert Ford, Charles Outland, Charles Higgins, Edward Gibson, Frank Lees, A. Randall Mathues, Bernard Cunningham, Richard Lavery, John Tipping, Centennial Book 26. Negative damaged.
