View shows Liseter, home of a branch of the DuPont family, in foreground, and Aronimink Country Club, with its golf course, in the background. The two are separated by Route 252.
View also shows cemetery on Lincoln Avenue. Further along this avenue, on the opposite side of the street are a school building (now demolished), First United Methodist Church (remodeled and added onto since this photograph), and at 822 Lincoln Avenue, the 1889 building of the Prospect Lodge No. 578 of the Free & Accepted Masons.
View shows the quarry at the intersection of Stoney Bank Road (curving in the bottom right) and Forge Road (just out of the picture at the bottom. Formerly known as General Crushed Stone, this quarry is now (2020) part of Hanson Aggregates, and is much wider and deeper, stretching all the way north to Sweetwater Road. The railroad line serving the quarry is still in operation.
Thanks to Ryan J. Lynch for identifying this photograph, which shows the high school before the first addition was built in 1938. MacDade Boulevard runs across the top of the photo.
View shows showing wide area, including parts of Aston, Chester, Upper Chichester and other municipalities. The tank farm sits off the Conchester Highway (Route 322) and is bounded on the left by Pennell Road (Route 452).
Looking west past Baltimore Pike and Sproul Road (Route 320) along Baltimore Pike, showing Victoria Mills and the Memorial Arch at Crum Creek, and various housing developments under construction.
Thanks to Ryan J. Lynch for identifying the location of this photograph. The building in the photo stood from 1927 to 1965, when it was replaced by a new school. That building still stands, but the school was closed in 2005. A history of the church can be found at www.stgeorgeparish.org/about-our-parish .
The school in upper right corner of photograph is at the intersection of College Avenue and Princeton Avenue. Top center of the photo shows the intersection of Princeton, Elm, and Swarthmore avenues. Swarthmore Avenue is the diagonal road that starts in the lower left.
The school is now (2020) known as Williamson College of the Trades. The campus includes several buildings designed by architect Frank Furness. See also P-18054.
The school is now (2020) known as Williamson College of the Trades. The campus includes several buildings designed by architect Frank Furness. See also P-18022.
View showing the intersection of Pennell Road (PA 452), running from the bottom of the photo to the top; Concord Road, running from the bottom right to the left, and Knowlton Road, coming from the lower left to meet the other two roads. (Thanks to Theresa Hayden for identifying the exact location of this photo, which was not noted with the original negative. She identified several buildings in the old photo, including Griffin Memorials on Knowlton Road, that were still standing in November 2025.)