Photograph stamped on the reverse: The General Crushed Stone Co., 408-9 Franklin Bank Bldg., Philadelphia, PA. The workmen are probably spreading crushed stone provided by this company. Handwritten number on reverse: 10907, possibly negative number.
View includes Storey's Unpainted [Furniture] and Media Republican Club on right or south side, and the modern Delaware County National Bank building and Sunoco Station on the north side.
First Presbyterian Church is the prominent building in this photograph. Only the trolley tracks are cleared of snow. 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.
Looking west at bridge over Ridley Creek along Baltimore Pike. Tracks of the Glen Riddle trolley line turn left to cross trestle over Ridley Creek and continue up Elwyn Road. Frank Lees Slide 1565. One of a series of photographs, possibly by same photographer or from same album. Date not certain. Possibly from 5 x 7 inch glass negative
Loking east down to Ridley Creek Valley, from about where Black Horse Tavern once stood. Delaware County Court House is building atop the hill in the background.
Based on research in newspaper archives, this photograph was probably taken by Clyde M. Allam on August 2, 1901, when Theodore Roosevelt, then vice-president of the United States, gave a speech in Colorado Springs, Colorado on the occasion of the state's quartocentenary (25th anniversary of statehood). The building in the background is the Antlers Hotel. To Roosevelt's left is Colorado Governor James B. Orman. [See Colorado Transcript, August 7, 1901, Colorado Historic Newspapers Collection, Colorado State Library) Clyde Allam had previously lived in Ohio, and after Colorado moved to Woodland Avenue in the Bortondale section of Middletown Township, Delaware County, Pa. He was the father of Mark Allam (pictured in P-14013E and other images in the MHAC collection) and Robert Allam (who took a variety of photographs that are now in the MHAC collection, and who donated this and several other glass negatives made by his father).
