Box Borough-Large-6
Contains 30 Results:
Location of cut back of Col Bains' on Crum Creek. Media and 69th Street. Aug. 1912?
Col. George W. Bain was a well-known Chautauqua lecturer. The image is probably of the construction of the trolley line between 69th Street and Media.
[House]
Residence at 512 Elm in Swarthmore. "Miss Magill's House - Elm St." Same subject as B.2.6.6.
[Interior]
In 2024, the current resident of 518 Walnut identified that this is image is NOT of 518 Walnut.
Tomlinson's School
Swarthmore Preparatory School, June 26, 1917." The Swarthmore Grammar School was a private school founded in 1892 by Arthur Hibbs Tomlinson after the preparatory school at Swarthmore College was closed. It moved to the corner of South Chester Road and Harvard Avenue in 1896.
Old water wheel near Whiskey Run and Chester Road. 1912
Whiskey Run, also known as Lownes Run, ran into Crum Creek in what is today know as Smedley Park, just north of Baltimore Pike.
Miss Magill's house. Elm Street
Beatrice Magill was the daughter of Edward Hicks Magill. She married J. Campbell Robinson in 1904. Residence at 512 Elm in Swarthmore.
Crum Creek near Leiper [sic] Quarry
Thomas Leiper quarried stone at several sites along the Crum.
