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Media Lions Club presenting iron lung to the Media Fire Department.
Names on reverse (probably left to right): Frank Lees (front), Gleave Baker, A. Fred Schultz, Mayor; Ed Gibson, Francis Gray, Gus Houtman, Bob Burke, and Charles Outland
Media Lions Club, officers
Left to right: William Patterson, Frank Snear, Francis Gray, Robert W. Burke, A. Fred Manno, and James Stewart. Centennial Book 39.
Media Lions Club, officers
Left to right: William Patterson, Frank Snear, Francis Gray, Robert W. Burke, A. Fred Manno, and James Stewart.
Media Men’s Club, southeast corner, Baltimore Avenue and South Avenue
P-01276, P-01277 and P-01278 are mounted on identical boards, with identical handwriting in the captions, so they were all probably taken at the same time.
Media Motor Sales Inc. (Media Garage)
John D. Young (right) showing 1950 Plymouth to prospective buyer.
Media Motor Sales Inc. (Media Garage)
Nash automobile out front.
Media Motor Sales Inc. (Media Garage)
John D. Young at his desk.
Media National Guard Armory, decorated for World War I Peace Parade, 1919
Delaware County Peace Celebration, in honor of soldiers and sailors who served in World War I, June 27 and June 28, 1919.
Media News building
This building was last occupied by Stillwell Moving and Storage, before it was condemned and demolished during Media's Baker Street Urban Renewal project. See photo in Baker Street Book 1-392, with plan showing the address; also various advertisements in the Chester Times. The Media News, a weekly newspaper, merged with the Media Comment in 1955, and offices of the renamed "Media News Comment" moved to the County Building on Veterans Square.
Media officials accepting award from American Automobile Association (AAA)
Left to right: Paul Clark, Weldon Heyburn, Gus Houtman, Frank Wiltshire, mayor of Media; and Carl Jones. Award is a 1961 "Pedestrian Safety Citation."
Media Old Timers. Sept. 1929. 35 years after.
Two copies. IDs on photograph: Left to right: Standing: Pete Reilly, George Noblitt, Jack Murray, Bill Alexander, Phil Carlin, Billy Diggins, Ollie Plummer, Pete Russell, Al Mathues. Kneeling, Matthew Fox.
Media or Furness Swimming Pool (formerly Gas Works site)
Caption found handwritten on piece of envelope with photograph: "Entrance, Furness or Media Swimming pool, located on the site of the old Media Gas Tank, southwest of Media Railroad Station on the old Indian Trail, now Media [Station] Road."
Media Orthodox Friends Meeting, 3rd and North Ave.
This complex now includes Media-Providence Friends School. North Avenue no longer exists.
Media Orthodox Friends Meeting, 3rd and North Ave.
This complex now includes Media-Providence Friends School. North Avenue no longer exists.
Media police
Chief of police flanked by four officers, including one whom is African-American. Names, according to Frank Lees, in From Media's Past (45), are Hoopes, Rodenboh [probably Rodenbaugh], Chief McKniff, Sherlock, and Turner. Lees says the picture was taken September 21,1891.
Media Police Department
Left to right: Malcolm H. Laughead, chief; Harvey F. Snyder, Sergeant; Gunnar H. Jorgensen, corporal, and Patrolmen Thomas L. Highfield, Joseph V. Gessler, Phillip Lee, Thomas J. Bruton, Alonzo H. Baker, and Harry Pearson.
Media Police Department
Left to right: Malcolm H. Laughead, chief; Harvey F. Snyder, Sergeant; Gunnar H. Jorgensen, corporal, and Patrolmen Thomas L. Highfield, Joseph V. Gessler, Phillip Lee, Thomas J. Bruton, Alonzo H. Baker, and Harry Pearson. Print originally in Photo Folder 1395, I. Frank Lees Collection. Negative damaged, but this is still better than 8x10 print in Folder 1395.