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Historic resources from our archives - images, maps, documents, and more.

Birch’s Views of Philadelphia, 1800

Colored print showin all the booths, restaurants and other amenities of the fair

Ground Plan, Great Central Sanitary Fair, Philadelphia

Fourth of July in Centre Square, John Lewis Krimmel, ca. 1812. The wooden statue in the fountain, “Allegory of the Schuylkill River (Water Nymph and Bittern)”, was carved in 1809 by Philadelphia sculptor William Rush.

Fourth of July, Centre Square, ca. 1812

A section of wooden water pipe, long out of service, removed from a Philadelphia street in 1901. It had been installed about 1801.

Wooden Water Pipe, removed from Market Street, December 6, 1901

Preparation for War to Defend Commerce

Goal (jail) in Walnut Street, Philadelphia, 1800

Congress Hall and New Theatre in Chestnut Street, Philadelphia

New Market, in South Second Street, Philadelphia, 1800

New Lutheran Church in Fourth Street, Philadelphia

Arch Street Ferry, Philadelphia

“Philadelphie,” Bird’s Eye View, 1855

Dock Creek and Blue Anchor Inn

Penn Landing at Blue Anchor, from Watson’s Annals