Object ID# 1995.0841
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Description
View of a woman and child sitting on the front porch of a large house located on Bloomingdale Ave.
Notes
Handwritten on the back: "Bloomingdale Avenue / S.W. cor. Bloomingdale & West Wayne Ave. / (still standing 1926)." Typed on a piece of paper enclosed in the plastic cover: "The Wayne Gazette -- August 3, 1872 / Bloomingdale Avenue / Mr. Martin and Family were the first residents on this new and beautiful Avenue. The Family / occupy the first house on the west side of the / Avenue above the Lancaster Pike. / Mr. Martin occupies a position on the Penna. / R.R., is a most worthy and excellent young / man, and it affords us great pleasure to / extend to him and his family a hearty welcome / to Louella."
As captioned in the July 1, 1955 "Your Town & My Town":
"Former home of the Charles T. Mathers, at the northwest corner of Bloomingdale and West Lancaster avenues, recently sold to the Bell Telephone Company."