Caption reads: "Media Free Library board dinner, given at the Towne House in Media, for Marguerite de Angeli, writer of children's books (Henner's Lydia, Copper Toed Boots, etc.). Left to right: Arthur Wiltshire, President, Mark W. Allam, toastmaster, Mrs. Arthur Griffith, and Mrs. de Angeli." According to an article in the Chester Times, April 23, 1968, a talk by Mrs. Angeli was "climaxing [a] week of events celebrating the official opening of the library's new wing and Library Week."

Photograph of drawing or watercolor.

Probably a modern contact print made from old negative

Marie at about age 13

See also AP-8345.

Born 1883, died 1977, buried Green Mount Cemetery, West Chester , Pa. Married J. Oscar Dicks, M.D. (1875-1938), buried in same place. See also AP-5507. Sister of Mildred Brooks, see AP-8346.

Wearing letter M, for Media, on his sweater and holding football

Wearing letter M, for Media, on his sweater and holding football

Sport shooting, probably at clay pigeons

Sport shooting, probably at clay pigeons

Sport shooting, probably at clay pigeons

Polaroid print.

She lived from 1840 to 1919. She escaped from John Y. Mason's Fortsville Plantation with two of her children and her brother Andison Parham and his daughter. They fled to the Union army as it passed Fortsville plantation on the way to Petersburg in 1864. Martha Jane and Andison Parham worked for the Union army at the siege of Petersburg before continuing north to the Arlington Heights refugee camp on the outskirts of Washinton, D.C.

She rejoined her husband Cornelius Ridley in Media after escaping from Virginia in 1864.

The photographer's grandmother. Copy is from a daguerreotype.

With stuffed rabbit

With stuffed rabbit