Appleton misidentified this as the Upper Darby Meeting House. For a full chronology of this meeting, visit the Haverford College Quaker and Special Collections. Image HC12-15806 is probably by Appleton, as it is almost identical to AP-5849 and clearly from a glass negative taken on the same day.
Hand-lettered business signs posted on tree, one for "Ja's (James) Haynes, upholsterer, est. 1885, steam carpet cleaning; call for and deliver all goods, Clifton Heights and Lansdowne" and a second for "Edward Brown, whitewashing, grading, cementing and landscape garden of all kinds. Carting. Box 107 Lansdowne." . Church on right in background is Lansdowne Baptist Church, at 17 E. Lacrosse Ave.
The locally famous organist played in the lobby of the Provident Tradesmens Bank & Trust Co. (formerly the First National Bank of Media) on March 12, 1964, to help celebreate the bank's 100th anniversary. See P-17037 to P-17043 for photos of that event.
The college was renamed Widener College on July 1, 1972, at which time the PMC Corps of Cadets was replaced by a civilian ROTC unit (according to the Chester Times, April 7, 1972, page 1).
Bob Laxton Sr., Bob Laxton Jr., and Thurman Rock. The company may also have been called Laxton Motor Co., according to advertisements in the Chester Times on May 10 and 17, 1929, on page 3.