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.
Bridge over Darby Creek near Leedom's Mill. ( Caption from a similar photgraph in the collection of the Delaware COunty Institute of Science, Cat. # 1988.2.87B) Appleton's photograph is used facing page 89 in the novel Twice Adopted, by "En Quad." [Thomas R. Vernon], Media, Pa.: Cooper and Vernon, Publishers, 1898. 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.
This is probably the daughter of Jennie Leishman, shown in AP-5663. This name might be Lershman, but handwriting is unclear, and there are Leishmans in Delaware County newspapers but no Lershmans; and a wider newspaper search finds thousands of Leishmans but far fewer Lershmans. Findagrave also shows many Leishmans but no Lershmans.
