Probably flowers for the funeral of one of the photographer's grandparents or parents. "Wet plate" refers to the photographic process used to capture the image. This is possibly a copy from a tintype.
Airbrushed copy negative. Made for Hotel Media's advertising in Centennial Book 110. This building sat on the southwest corner of Baltimore Ave and Lemon St. Hill's Seafood now (2020) occupies the site.
Caption by Frank Lees: "Edgemont St., S.W. from 3rd and Edgemont." This house no longer stands, but its location was confirmed by comparing the house in the background of P-01308B with the one that still stands (in 2020) at 206 N. Edgemont. The Sanborn atlas in the MHAC Collection gives the address of the house with the tower as 218 N. Edgemont. It was demolished in the 1970s, and three small houses built on the block. See also P-01308B.
Caption by Frank Lees: "Edgemont St., S.W. from 3rd and Edgemont." This house no longer stands, but its location was confirmed by comparing the house in the background of P-01308B with the one that still stands (in 2020) at 206 N. Edgemont. The Sanborn atlas in the MHAC Collection gives the address of the house with the tower as 218 N. Edgemont. It was demolished in the 1970s, and three small houses built on the block. See also P-01308A.
"Red Ink" photo, series by same photographer named for red ink used for writing descriptions on reverse side of similarly-mounted images. This is probably the house (still standing in 2021 but added onto on the north side after the photo was taken), at 322 Providence Road, on the east side of the road south of Plush Mill Road, in Nether Providence Township.
"Red Ink" photo, series by same photographer named for red ink used for writing descriptions on reverse side of similarly-mounted images. Frank Lees wrote that this house is now on what is known as the Upper Bank Nursery property. The property is entered near the intersection of Ridley Creek Road and Park Avenue. Media Park was the section of houses along South Orange Street and South Avenue, below the Media Railroad Station.
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.