Historian Keith Lockhart has images, postcards and photo-based illustrations from yesteryear in Delaware County, and he’s making an attempt to maintain the perfect data that he can.
With this week comes a private contact from Keith: “This week’s image is a glass plate I purchased some 30 years in the past of Clifton Heights.
“I imagine this snow scene is a block on Baltimore Pike. You observe the trolley tracks within the image. In fact it could possibly be one other avenue in Clifton with trolley tracks like Springfield Avenue.”
As all the time, Keith is in search of a block, cross streets and course of the {photograph}.
Final week, Keith had a photo of the Brandywine Tourist Camp from about 1930. Right here’s what you needed to say about it:
• “The 1934 Birmingham Township map on The Welcome to Delaware County PA Historical past Web site for Chadds Ford/Birmingham Twp. reveals the property of H. Benkendorf (45 acres) situated on the NW nook of Baltimore Pike and Rt. 202.” — Dennis & Jack McKnight
• “The realm proven within the three footage presents the development in time. The situation remains to be the SE nook of Baltimore Pike and Pennell Street. The tract was owned by Penrose Worrell, whose home from the late 1800s nonetheless was standing. The tract had a number of smaller buildings alongside Baltimore Pike. The market would have been on the South aspect of Baltimore Pike throughout from the Weathers properties. The market would have been the second closest to the intersection.” — David Burns
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