View across the loading dock toward Gayley Street and Baltimore Avenue, showing Pinocchio's Pizza on the northeast corner, and a Texaco gas station on the southest corner. This building, which replaced a municipal metered parking lot, was dedicated on November 17, 1962. Frank Leees is the small man in front of the crowd, with a camera around his neck.
Arthur, George, and Mae Dee all lived in this house on the northwest corner of 4th St. and Monroe St., according to news note in the Chester Times on August 11, 1902.
Arthur, George, and Mae Dee all lived in this house on the northwest corner of 4th St. and Monroe St., according to news note in the Chester Times on August 11, 1902. The backs of two adjacent houses on E. 4th St. also visible.
Arthur, George, and Mae Dee all lived in this house on the northwest corner of 4th St. and Monroe St., according to news note in the Chester Times on August 11, 1902.
Arthur, George, and Mae Dee all lived in this house on the northwest corner of 4th St. and Monroe St., according to news note in the Chester Times on August 11, 1902. Risley house at 5th and Monroe also visible.
American address is 10; photo also shows store of Samuel Dutton, at No. 12, and another building to the right, probably No. 8 Addresses probably 8 to 12 E. State St. 1885 Media Directory confirms Dutton at 12 E. State, but Media must have changed its street numbering system after that, because the same newspaper building appears in other photos in this collection as 212 W. State St. Perhaps the earlier system used South Ave. as the starting point for east and west. See AP-5066 and AP-5170 for later photos with modern address.
John H. Doherty, chairman, sits in the center chair, with Albert J. Crawford, Jr., right, and Fred F. Duke, left. The man sitting in front of the table is Edward H. P. Fronefield, county solicitor. The commission offices were in the court house complex.
Removed from frame. Donated by Giota Hartas, of Giota's West End Hairstyling, 20 S. Orange Street, Media, on June 29, 1995. Stored in Misc. Photos Box 2
Photographed from 1855 "Map of Media." Photograph used in the book Twice Adopted, by "En Quad" [Thomas R. Vernon]. Media, Pa.: Cooper & Vernon, Publishers, 1898, facing page 8. This novel tells the story of two adopted children in Media who grow up to get married, and uses many real people names and place names.