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

Photo of four men standing on the banks of the Schuylkill River on the last day of the Schuylkill Interceptor, December 20, 1956

Last gasp of the Schuylkill Interceptor, December 20, 1956

Dauphin and Sydenham car crash, Jan. 17, 1978

Black-and-white photo of men, horses and a cart inside of a barn-like structure

Ash dumping house, 2nd floor, 15th and Wood St.

Captain Sewer and Michael Nutter, 1998

Captain Sewer and Michael Nutter, 1998

Black-and-white photo of privies, waterless wells used to collect human waste

Privies, Emerald Street, 1919